Our Team
Jade Wu, PhD, DBSM (accepting new clients for 2025), our Founder, is a Board-certified behavioral sleep medicine psychologist and author of Hello Sleep: The Science and Art of Overcoming Insomnia Without Medications. She earned her Bachelor’s degree at Cornell University, completed her PhD at Boston University and her medical psychology residency and clinical fellowship at Duke University School of Medicine. Dr. Wu specializes in using non-medication treatments to help people overcome insomnia (and improve their waking life). She is especially passionate about helping new parents navigate sleep challenges during pregnancy and postpartum.
Dr. Wu lives in Durham, NC with her family, where she enjoys hiking, napping, and watching her toddlers chase the backyard chickens.
Angela N. R. Miller, PhD, MPH, MSCP, DBSM (accepting new clients for 2025), our Clinic Director, is a Board-certified behavioral sleep medicine psychologist, educator, and speaker. She completed her PhD at Kent State University, her medical psychology residency at WVU School of Medicine/ Charleston Area Medical Center, and a clinical health psychology/ specialty medicine fellowship at the Louis Stokes Cleveland DVAMC. Dr. Miller specializes in the non-medication treatment of a wide variety of sleep disorders and she is passionate about helping individuals restore, or perhaps even develop for the first time, a healthy relationship with their sleep.
Dr. Miller is based in Ohio where she is active in her faith community and can most often be found enjoying as much time as possible with the loves of her life, her husband and five children, and a good cup of coffee.
Kara Christensen Pacella, PhD (accepting new clients for 2025) is a licensed clinical psychologist, researcher, and professor. She completed her PhD at The Ohio State University, her internship at the Medical University of South Carolina, and her postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Kansas. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Nevada Las Vegas where she studies the link between sleep and eating behaviors and trains our next generation of clinical psychologists. Dr. Christensen Pacella is particularly interested in translating new findings from research into clinical practice and helping make psychological treatments more effective and accessible.
Dr. Christensen Pacella lives in Las Vegas, NV where she enjoys 300 days of sunshine per year, trying new restaurants, and taking her dogs to Red Rock Canyon.