Harmful Habits

Find Relief from Insomnia
Personalized Therapy – Online Across New York

Does Any of This Sound Familiar?
✅ You dread nighttime, afraid you’ll just lie awake again.
✅ Your mind races with worry the moment you close your eyes.
✅ You’ve tried teas, supplements, and podcasts – nothing helps you sleep.
✅ Every morning you feel drained and defeated from another restless night.
✅ You feel alone and frustrated as everyone else sleeps peacefully.
✅ You’re desperate for rest but fear you’ll never break this cycle.

 Harmful Habits

Helping You Heal Insomnia with Individualized Insomnia Therapy

Dr. Haran Sivakumar, MD
Founder/Medical Director of Harmful Habits
At Harmful Habits, we focus on helping you overcome insomnia through expert therapy. Our compassionate, evidence-based approach ensures you receive the support you need to regain sleep and thrive.

To schedule a free consultation with Harmful Habits, fill out the form below.

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About Our Practice

At Harmful Habits, we specialize in helping individuals break free from chronic insomnia and sleep anxiety through personalized, evidence-based therapy. We understand how exhausting and overwhelming long-term sleep struggles can feel. Our empathetic, collaborative approach ensures that you receive care tailored to your unique experience with insomnia — not just generic advice. Together, we’ll build a personalized plan to help you restore healthy, natural sleep.

We Can Help You With:

✅ Racing Thoughts at Night: Learn to calm a busy mind and break free from the cycle of nighttime overthinking.

✅ Chronic Insomnia: Address long-standing sleep difficulties by targeting both mind and body for lasting improvement.

✅ Early Morning Awakenings: Develop strategies to fall back asleep and wake up feeling more rested.

✅ Post-Treatment Insomnia: Get specialized support if previous therapies or medications haven’t fully worked for you.

Our Therapy Services

We offer tailored online therapy to help you finally overcome insomnia and rebuild trust in your natural ability to sleep:

✅ Individual Therapy: Personalized sessions focused on your sleep patterns, thoughts, and habits.

✅ Evidence-Based Modalities: Using proven methods like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Insomnia (ACT-I), mindfulness, and sleep retraining.

✅ Root-Cause Focused Care: We work to uncover and heal the underlying causes fueling your sleep struggles, not just manage symptoms.

✅ Online Therapy: Accessible and flexible sessions from the comfort of your home, available anywhere in New York.

At Harmful Habits, our mission is to provide comprehensive, compassionate care to help you reclaim peaceful, restorative sleep — and the life that comes with it.

 FAQs

  • We combine Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and a deep understanding of the physiological drivers of sleep disruption. While CBT-I helps retrain your sleep patterns and challenge unhelpful thoughts, ACT helps you reduce the struggle against sleeplessness itself — focusing on building a healthier relationship with your mind and body at night. Our approach is eclectic and individualized, addressing not just habits, but the deeper stress responses, hyperarousal, and nervous system imbalances that keep insomnia going.

  • We are a private pay practice and do not bill insurance directly. However, we’re happy to provide superbills that you can submit to your insurance for possible out-of-network reimbursement. Many clients receive partial reimbursement depending on their specific coverage.

  • Many treatments offer surface-level solutions like sleep hygiene tips or quick medication fixes. We go deeper — helping you understand why your body stays alert when it should rest, and working with both the cognitive and physiological roots of insomnia. By blending CBT-I, ACT, and an understanding of sleep neurobiology, we don’t just target better sleep tonight — we aim to heal the entire cycle of anxiety, frustration, and hyperarousal that fuels chronic insomnia.

  • Absolutely. Online delivery of CBT-I, ACT, and related therapies has been shown to be highly effective for treating insomnia. Our virtual sessions make it easy to integrate therapy into your real environment — the very place where sleep happens — helping you practice and reinforce changes where they matter most. You receive the same high-quality, individualized care you would in person, with added flexibility and privacy.

  • During the free 15-minute consultation, we'll discuss your concerns, explain how insomnia therapy works, and answer any questions you have. It's a no-pressure way to see if we are the right fit for you.

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Take the first step toward freedom from insomnia. Reach out to Harmful Habits today to schedule your free 15-minute consultation.