Ashley Mason

Ashley Mason, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry in Residence at the Weill Institute of Neurosciences, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and the Osher Center for Integrative Health at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Dr. Mason received her PhD from the University of Arizona, completed her resident training in behavioral medicine at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System, and completed a National Institutes of Health (NIH) fellowship training at the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Health.

Dr. Mason has an active federally and philanthropically funded research program. She directs the Sleep, Eating, and Affect (SEA) Laboratory, which focuses on the development of novel mind and body treatments that address long-neglected targets in (1) mood disorders, principally clinical depression, (2) insomnia and sleep-related anxiety, and (3) reward-related behaviors, in particular, craving-related and compulsive overeating. She focuses on treatments that employ cognitive-behavioral processes and reward-based learning, as well as thermal therapies. She also has an active research area in firefighter health. Clinically, Dr. Mason directs insomnia treatment at the UCSF Osher Center, where she provides cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) to patients with insomnia and patients who want to quit using substances for sleep. She has published more than 85 peer-reviewed manuscripts and several handbook chapters, and her work has been featured in many news outlets, including NPR, AXIOS, and WIRED magazine.

To learn more about digital cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia, check out the Rest App, which Dr. Mason advises. Clinician trials are available: https://getrest.app/for-clinicians