About Dr. Gregg D. Jacobs

Dr. Gregg D. Jacobs is an Insomnia Specialist at the Sleep Disorders Center at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and a leading authority on the treatment of insomnia. He completed postdoctoral fellowships in behavioral medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Children’s Hospital at Harvard Medical School. As a Senior Scientist at Harvard's Mind/Body Medical Institute and an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, where he spent almost 20 years treating and researching insomnia, Dr. Jacobs developed the first drug-free program for insomnia proven more effective than sleeping pills.

His cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and insomnia research at Harvard Medical School was funded by the National Institutes of Health and published in journals such as the Archives of Internal Medicine. He has taught his insomnia program to over 10,000 patients, to major HMOs such as Kaiser Permanente, and to major corporations such as Reebok, Fidelity, and John Hancock, and his insomnia program is used by major insurers such as Blue Cross and Blue Shield. Dr. Jacobs is also the author of Say Good Night to Insomnia (New York: Henry Holt). His work on insomnia has been featured extensively in the media including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Good Morning America, the Today Show, Time magazine, Forbes, The Economist, the Los Angeles Times, and The Boston Globe, and he has been described by the Wall Street Journal as a "pioneer in the use of cognitive-behavioral therapy for insomnia".

Dr. Jacobs also has extensive training in positive psychology, behavioral medicine, and the effects of stress and mind/body interventions on health and is also the author of The Ancestral Mind: Reclaim the Power (New York: Viking Penguin). He has lectured extensively, including international lectures on behalf of Harvard Medical International and national lectures for the Smithsonian, health care professionals, and medical schools. He is the recipient of the Lawrence University Nathan M. Pusey Young Alumni Distinguished Achievement Award.

Dr. Jacobs is the founder of www.cbtforinsomnia.com where his insomnia therapy program is now available in an online, interactive format. He is also the creator of Mind/Body Medicine Techniques – a 5-week program focused on relaxation training techniques to reduce stress and anxiety. The course includes PDF-based content broken into 5 sessions and a 20-minute relaxation MP3 .