Search for sleep help in Boulder County and the results arrive in one undifferentiated list: a sleep coach, a behavioral sleep therapist, a clinical psychologist, an accredited hospital sleep lab, and a national telehealth company with a page named after your town. They are not the same service, they are not sold at the same price, and only some of them can put a claim through your insurance. The treatment most of them are describing is CBT-I, cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia — a structured short course, usually four to eight weekly sessions, that works on the sleep schedule and the thinking around it rather than on medication. The American Academy of Sleep Medicine maintains a separate clinical practice guideline for behavioral and psychological treatment of chronic insomnia in adults, alongside its pharmacologic one. What follows is who actually provides which version of this in Boulder County, what each one charges, and the one distinction that decides most of it.
That distinction is between coaching and clinical care, and the useful thing about the local market is that a Boulder practice states it in writing on its own website rather than leaving buyers to work it out.
Boulder Sleep Health — the practice that draws the coaching line itself
Monica Egger runs Boulder Sleep Health as a Colorado telehealth practice, and her site splits its offerings into two named groups. Under clinical services it lists CBT-I delivered “to qualifying adults by a certified therapist trained in CBT-I delivery,” plus circadian rhythm and nervous-system regulation work. Under sleep programs it lists coaching for sleep optimization, sold to clients worldwide, and states in its own copy that those sessions are “delivered in a non-clinical, educational format, and not intended as therapeutic services or medical treatment.” Egger holds a clinical doctorate in occupational therapy from Creighton University and completed CBT-I competency training through Stanford Medicine’s Sleep Health and Insomnia Program, with additional sleep coursework at Colorado State. Sessions are $140 for fifty minutes, with a complimentary twenty-minute consultation, a 25 percent discount for students and for US active military and veterans with valid ID, and out-of-network benefit support for Colorado residents through Mentaya. Prices read September 2026.
Summit Behavioral Sleep Medicine — two CU-trained psychologists on Canyon Boulevard
Summit Sleep is at 2355 Canyon Blvd, Suite 100, and it is a behavioral sleep medicine clinic and nothing else. Founding partners Vyga Kaufmann, PhD, and Natalie Whiteford, PhD, are both licensed clinical psychologists who took their doctorates in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at CU Boulder; Whiteford’s predoctoral internship was at Wardenburg Health Center on the same campus. The practice publishes its structure plainly: a first visit that collects sleep goals and health history, then a typical course of four to eight weekly sessions, with optional booster sessions afterward. Its stated scope goes beyond insomnia to circadian rhythm disorders, pediatric insomnia in children and teens, and helping people tolerate a CPAP machine or oral appliance. Fees are collected at the time of service and invoices are provided for you to pursue out-of-network reimbursement; ask about fees on the phone.
Foothills CBT — published fees and the questions to ask your insurer
Foothills CBT is a Boulder psychology group where insomnia is one specialty among roughly twenty, from OCD to postpartum anxiety, and CBT-I is one of eighteen listed therapy protocols. Everyone on the clinical team holds a doctorate, and the practice sees clients in its Boulder office or by video anywhere in Colorado and in most other states. It is transparent on money: session fees run $165 to $245 depending on the provider’s specialization and experience, the practice is private-pay, and it issues superbills for out-of-network reimbursement. It also publishes the five questions to put to your insurer before you start — whether you have out-of-network outpatient mental health benefits, what your out-of-network deductible is and how much of it you have met, what percentage the plan reimburses, whether there is a session cap, and whether telehealth is covered the same as in-person — along with the two CPT codes to quote, 90791 for the initial evaluation and 90834 for individual therapy. Those questions work on every practice in this article, not just this one.
Richard Shane, PhD — a long Boulder practice sold as a six-session program
Richard Shane has worked as a behavioral sleep therapist for twenty-five years, is listed under Boulder in the international CBT-I clinician directory, and developed a method he calls SleepEasy, which he describes as an approach built on somatic and nervous-system regulation rather than on standard CBT-I alone. He states that he serves as sleep therapist for one of Colorado’s largest primary care groups. The offering is packaged rather than open-ended: three individual telehealth sessions of forty-five minutes for $500, an optional second set of three for another $500, plus lifetime access to a companion app. Insurance does not cover it; the practice states it qualifies as an HSA-reimbursable health expense, and takes PayPal, credit card or HSA debit card. Sessions are delivered by video, so “Boulder” here means where the therapist is, not where you go.
Boulder Community Health Sleep Diagnostics — the testing side of the question
Coaching is not a diagnostic service, and testing for obstructive sleep apnea is a separate branch of sleep care with its own providers. Boulder Community Health runs its sleep diagnostic center at 4895 Riverbend Road in Boulder, reachable at 303-415-8890, open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Wednesday and Friday and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday. It offers office visits with a sleep specialist, home and in-lab sleep testing, insomnia treatment, oral appliances, CPAP therapy and Inspire upper-airway stimulation monitoring in one facility, which BCH describes as an integrated center built with community provider partners. BCH states the center is accredited by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and that its technologists hold the RPSGT credential. Worth knowing: CU Boulder’s Sleep and Development Lab still lists this program at an older Alpine Avenue address on its public resources page, next to a study recruitment notice dated 2023. Use the hospital’s own listing.
Rebis Health — the multidisciplinary option, and it bills insurance
Rebis Health’s Boulder County office is in Longmont, at 1630 Dry Creek, Suite 200 — inside Boulder County, but a drive from Boulder proper, so confirm which office your appointment is in. What it puts under one roof: board-certified sleep physicians alongside airway-focused dentists, functional medicine clinicians, a director of behavioral sleep medicine, myofunctional therapy, oral appliance therapy and CBT-I, with pediatric patients seen from age three. It runs both home sleep apnea testing and in-lab polysomnography and says reports are typically ready in seven to ten business days. It also states it is in-network with major carriers including Medicare and Medicaid, naming Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, Humana and Kaiser PPO. Published policies: a Good Faith Estimate for anything expected to exceed $500, and cancellation fees of $50 for office visits and $100 for lab and testing appointments.
Restful Mind Counseling — a Boulder CBT-I therapist
Alison Askew, MS, LPC, practices as Restful Mind Counseling PLLC in Boulder and is one of four Boulder-listed clinicians in the international CBT-I directory. Her listing records CBT-I training completed through Stanford University’s Sleep Health and Insomnia Program and the University of Arizona, insomnia as her behavioral sleep medicine specialty, telehealth availability, and that she accepts private insurance. Use a therapist directory with current contact details to reach her before you book.
Before You Book
Start by deciding which of three questions you actually have. If it is “I cannot fall asleep or stay asleep and it has gone on for months,” the providers here offering CBT-I from a licensed clinician are Summit Sleep, Foothills CBT, Boulder Sleep Health’s clinical track, and Rebis. If it is “I snore, I stop breathing, I am exhausted despite eight hours,” the two operators here that run sleep testing are BCH and Rebis, and both also list insomnia care. If it is “my sleep is fine but I want it sharper,” coaching is a legitimate purchase — just know you are buying education, not treatment, and that no insurer will reimburse it.
Then ask two questions before you hand over money. First: what is your license, and who issued it? The credentials held by the clinicians above — psychologist, licensed professional counselor, occupational therapist — are all state credentials issued through Colorado’s Division of Professions and Occupations, which you can verify by name. “Sleep coach” and “sleep consultant” are not credentials of that kind, and where a provider cites a certification, ask which body issued it; in this field the answer is usually a private training program. Second: how does billing work? The pattern in Boulder County is the inverted one — the medical clinics that test for apnea take insurance, while most of the behavioral providers delivering CBT-I are private-pay and hand you a superbill. Budget for the possibility that CBT-I is the service you pay for out of pocket.
One last thing about the search results themselves. Several of the highest-ranking pages for Boulder sleep care are national virtual clinics and out-of-area coaches running city-named landing pages: one is a telehealth insomnia company with a Colorado-Boulder page and no Boulder facility, another is a children’s sleep coach based in northern Colorado with a Boulder page and a 970 number, and a Denver coaching firm serving clients worldwide also ranks locally. None of that makes them bad services. It does mean the top of the page is not a list of Boulder businesses, so check for a street address in the county before you assume you are booking one.
This article describes what local businesses offer and, where noted, what they say about their own services. Boulder Vibe does not endorse any treatment for any condition, and nothing here is medical advice. Please talk with your doctor or another qualified clinician before starting something new.
