Insomnia and circadian rhythms
Difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep, or sleeping at the times daily life requires. Clinical care considers sleep patterns, behavior, and circadian timing rather than assuming every concern has a hormonal cause.
Women’s Sleep
Women’s sleep across life stages
Christine Mason, PhD, DBSM brings behavioral sleep medicine, circadian science, and health psychology to women’s sleep concerns. Care starts with understanding the individual, not assuming that all women experience sleep in the same way.
Clinical expertise
Sleep concerns deserve a careful clinical understanding
Sleep concerns may reflect several overlapping influences, including circadian timing, health conditions, daily demands, and life-stage changes. Individualized behavioral sleep medicine care may include CBT-I for insomnia and coordination with other healthcare professionals.
Menstrual-cycle and hormonal changes
Sleep can vary across the menstrual cycle. Evaluation considers individual patterns alongside other possible contributors, with medical coordination where appropriate.
Pregnancy and postpartum
Changes in sleep opportunity, nighttime caregiving, insomnia, and changing schedules can overlap. Care distinguishes interrupted sleep opportunity from a sleep disorder and is coordinated with medical providers when needed.
Perimenopause and menopause
Sleep disruption may occur alongside hot flashes, night sweats, and changes in mood or daily functioning. Behavioral sleep care addresses insomnia while recognizing concerns that need medical evaluation.
Restless legs, breathing, and daytime sleepiness
Not all sleep concerns are insomnia. Symptoms suggesting restless legs, sleep-disordered breathing, or another medical sleep disorder warrant physician evaluation and coordinated care.
Women’s teams and athletes
Athletic schedules, recovery, travel, and hormonal influences deserve individualized consideration. Team education and consultation are separate from clinical treatment of an individual athlete.
Access to care
Individual care, with clear boundaries
Dr. Mason holds full licensure in Georgia, Michigan, Florida, and New York and can provide telehealth care in participating jurisdictions through PSYPACT authorization. Patients must be physically located in a jurisdiction where she is authorized to practice at the time of care.
This information is educational and does not replace an individualized evaluation. No particular clinical or performance outcome is guaranteed. Medical sleep concerns should be evaluated by a physician.