Some people have forgotten what waking up rested feels like.

You don’t need to figure it out before we talk.

Your sleep may have changed during a difficult period and never quite returned to normal. It might have been unpredictable for so long that you can’t remember when it began.

You may already have tried quite a few things. Some helped briefly; others gave you one more thing to think about at bedtime.

In our first conversation, you can tell me what your nights have been like and ask questions about hypnosis. I’ll explain how I work and give you my honest view of whether my approach makes sense for you.

There’s no commitment to join the program.

The Restorative Sleep Protocol™

Clinical hypnosis with Kelly May, founder of Calibrated State.

The Restorative Sleep Protocol includes an individual assessment followed by six weekly hypnosis sessions. The structure gives us time to follow your experience and adjust the work. Sessions respond to what you report between appointments, including concerns that may become clearer as we go.

Hypnosis uses focused attention and suggestions shaped around what you want to change. That might mean feeling more settled at bedtime or responding differently when you wake during the night.

This program is open to people with sleep concerns across different circumstances. You don’t need to be a leader or an athlete. We’ll discuss what’s appropriate for you during the assessment, including any medical care or other support you receive.

Poor sleep follows you into the day.

A task takes longer than it should. You reread something you would usually understand the first time. By evening, you have less patience for people you care about.

Research helps explain why “getting used to it” can be misleading. In controlled studies, adults restricted to six hours in bed each night for two weeks developed accumulating cognitive performance deficits. Their reported sleepiness didn’t increase in step with those deficits. Feeling accustomed to short nights didn’t mean their performance had recovered.

The degradation can also be measured against a familiar reference. After 17 hours of continuous wakefulness, cognitive performance is comparable to a blood alcohol concentration of 0.05%. After 24 hours, that figure reaches 0.10%.

The cost reaches employers as well. Sun Life’s 2026 Canadian workplace research, based on surveys conducted in December 2025, found that employees self-report an average of 6.9 hours each week in which they felt less productive due to poor sleep. For employees with severe insomnia, that self-reported figure rises to 11.8 hours. One in five Canadian employees meets the clinical insomnia threshold.¹

At a national level, a 2023 RAND Europe study estimated that chronic insomnia disorder costs Canada approximately $19.6 billion USD (2019 dollars) in lost GDP each year, with an additional $10.7 billion USD in modelled population-level wellbeing losses. The same study found that people with chronic insomnia disorder lose between 44 and 54 productive days per year through a combination of absenteeism and reduced effectiveness at work.²

Over time, sleep deficiency also has implications for physical health, including blood-sugar regulation. These findings are reasons to take persistent sleep difficulties seriously and seek appropriate care.

For you, the immediate concern may be much simpler: you’d like enough energy left to enjoy the life you’re working so hard to support.

Your tracker may confirm the problem every morning.

About one in three U.S. adults now use some form of sleep tracker. In the American Academy of Sleep Medicine’s 2023 Sleep Prioritization Survey, more than half of those users reported changing their habits based on the data.³ The measurement is widespread. What to do with the information is less obvious.

If you already track your sleep, you probably have plenty of information about your nights. The score becomes another thing to check. A lower number may leave you anticipating a difficult day before you’ve noticed how you feel.

Sleep researchers use the term orthosomnia to describe a preoccupation with achieving ideal sleep measurements. In a published case series, clinicians described people whose concern about tracker results appeared to reinforce sleep-related anxiety. It doesn’t happen to everyone who uses a tracker, but it’s worth noticing when monitoring becomes another source of pressure.

Wearables can help reveal trends. Their sleep-stage figures are estimates, however, and need to be interpreted alongside your experience and any medical assessment. During the program, we use tracking when it provides useful information. Your experience during the night and the following day remains central. You don’t need to buy a device.

Why changing your bedtime habits may leave something unresolved.

You may already keep a consistent bedtime or avoid caffeine later in the day. Those changes can help, but persistent insomnia often needs more than sleep-hygiene advice alone. Clinical guidelines make that distinction and strongly recommend cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia, or CBT-I, for chronic insomnia.

There may also be a familiar response that continues even when the conditions for sleep have improved. Getting into bed brings on worry about the coming night. Waking briefly becomes a reason to check the clock and mentally rehearse tomorrow.

Knowing you’d prefer to respond differently doesn’t necessarily make that response easy to change.

Hypnosis uses focused attention and suggestions developed around the person’s experience. In this program, the work may address anticipation of another difficult night or the urge to stay mentally occupied when you want to rest. The assessment helps us decide whether these are appropriate areas to work on and what other care may be needed.

A client’s experience.

What would better sleep give back to you?

What would change if you felt more comfortable going to bed, without wondering how long you’d lie awake? Or if waking during the night didn’t immediately leave you worrying about tomorrow?

Perhaps you’d enjoy dinner with friends without calculating how you’ll manage the next day. You might have more energy left for yourself once your responsibilities are done.

What matters to you guides our work and gives us something specific to return to when we review your progress.

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