I am a licensed clinical psychologist and the clinical director of Thriving Minds Behavioral Health in Livonia, MI. I am currently licensed in both Michigan and New York. I work with children and their families, specializing in the evidence-based treatment of anxiety, OCD and Selective mutism, in addition to behavioral sleep medicine.

My trainees and I offer Behavioral Sleep Medicine services to Veterans and CHAMPVA beneficiaries enrolled in VA medical care in the San Francisco VA Health Care System. We offer evidence-based, patient-centered assessment and intervention for the full spectrum of sleep disorders and concerns, including insomnia, PAP intolerance, and circadian rhythm disorders. We happily collaborate with patients' Sleep Medicine, medical, and mental health teams. For patients interested in our clinical services, ...

Dr. Baardseth is a health psychologist who is board certified in behavioral sleep medicine (DBSM). He attended and completed a mini-fellowship in behavioral sleep medicine at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine, and he has completed advanced behavioral sleep training from the University of Oxford. In addition to treating sleep, he also works with patients receiving oncology and palliative care services and teaches graduate courses in behavioral sleep medicine.

I began practicing my specialty in Health Psychology/Behavioral Medicine in a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Georgetown University Medical Center in 1993 and have since been a behavioral sleep consultant for Georgetown’s Sleep Disorders Center. As a member of the Georgetown Psychiatry faculty for nearly a decade, I worked with patients in the Anxiety & Mood Disorders Clinics, the Pain Clinic, Neurology, Rheumatology, Internal Medicine, Cardiac Rehab, Lombardi Cancer Center, and ObGyn. While with th ...