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Lynelle Schneeberg, PsyD

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
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Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

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Dr. Schneeberg is an Assistant Professor within the Department of Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine and a member of the Medical Staff at Yale New Haven Hospital. She completed her internship at the West Haven VA Medical Center and and her residency at Gaylord Specialty Healthcare and she specialized in behavioral medicine.

As a Fellow of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, she is board-certified in the field of sleep medicine, and treats behavioral sleep disorders in children, adolescents and adults. Her book, Become Your Child's Sleep Coach: The Bedtime Doctor's 5-Step Guide, Ages 3-10, teaches parents how to help their preschool- and elementary school-aged children become great sleepers. Dr. Schneeberg treats patients with sleep difficulties at the Yale Centers for Sleep Medicine.

Her specialty areas include insomnia, narcolepsy, circadian sleep disorders and pediatric sleep issues such as behavioral insomnia of childhood. She also provides clinical and didactic training in behavioral sleep medicine to Sleep Medicine and Psychology Fellows.

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Education & Training

Psychology Resident
Gaylord Hospital and Specialty Healthcare (1994)
PsyD
University of Denver, Clinical Psychology (1993)
Psychology Intern
West Haven VA Medical Center (1993)
BA
Texas A&M University, English Literature (1981)

Research

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Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Lynelle Schneeberg's published research.

Publications

2025

2022

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2019

Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

  • activity

    Helping Children Sleep Well: At Home and in the Sleep Lab

  • honor

    Distinguished Faculty Outstanding Supervisor Award

Clinical Care

Overview

Lynelle Schneeberg, PsyD, is a pediatric sleep psychologist and one of only about 200 board-certified sleep psychologists in the country. “I really enjoy treating insomnia because the treatment that is the practice standard, cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia [CBT-I], is such an effective approach. This specialized structured therapy program has been proven through hundreds of randomized controlled trials and the components of CBT-I are easy to teach and the effects are long lasting," she says.

She is the author of the book, Become Your Child’s Sleep Coach: The Bedtime Doctor’s 5-Step Guide, Ages 3-10,” which draws upon both her training in sleep medicine and years of experience working with families. She wrote this book for parents of preschool and elementary school children because “parents can’t use the sleep methods that were designed for babies,” Schneeberg says. “These older children can walk and talk, and this can make the process much more complicated.”

A parent of three, Schneeberg says she knows both professionally and personally how important it is to help kids become great sleepers. “Every parent knows that helping your child learn to sleep well means that everyone else in the home sleeps well, too,” she says.

In addition to her clinical work, Schneeberg is an assistant professor at Yale School of Medicine and has a special interest in telemedicine, which she says has some advantages over traditional in-office treatment for treating sleep problems. “For example, I can see the patient's home environment and can often talk to other family members to gain useful insight into their sleep-related issues. In addition, patients are able to take less time away from work and family for a treatment session."

Clinical Specialties

Pulmonology & Sleep Medicine

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Board Certifications

  • Clinical Sleep Disorders

    Certification Organization
    AB of Sleep Medicine
    Original Certification Date
    2005

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