If you've been lying awake at 2 a.m. counting sheep — or scrolling your phone hoping exhaustion will eventually win — you're not alone. Poor sleep is one of the most pervasive and underaddressed health challenges in today's workforce. The good news: your employer benefits may be able to help you fix it. Benepass, a leading flexible employee benefits platform, now accepts Sleep Reset, the clinically validated digital sleep program developed with researchers from Stanford and Yale. For employees with access to a Benepass Wellness account or Lifestyle Spending Account (LSA), that means you can finally invest in getting the sleep your body and brain need — using pre-tax or employer-funded dollars.
This post breaks down everything you need to know: what Sleep Reset is, how Benepass works, why this pairing is a big deal, and exactly how to start using your benefits to transform your sleep tonight.
Before diving into the mechanics of how Benepass and Sleep Reset work together, it's worth understanding why sleep is no longer a personal problem — it's an employer problem too.
The data is sobering. The CDC reports that one in three American adults doesn't get sufficient sleep on a regular basis. Meanwhile, research continues to pile up connecting sleep deprivation to reduced cognitive function, poor emotional regulation, decreased productivity, and significantly higher rates of burnout, anxiety, and depression. Survey data from Mind Share Partners' 2021 Mental Health at Work Report shows that mental health concerns are on the rise, with 76% of respondents having at least one symptom of a mental health disorder in the previous year, up from 59% in 2019 Benepass — and disordered sleep is at the root of many of those struggles.
For employers, the math is equally stark. Workers who consistently sleep poorly cost their companies through absenteeism, presenteeism (being at work but not fully functional), and higher healthcare utilization. Offering tools that address root-cause health issues — like sleep — is increasingly seen not as a perk but as a strategic investment in workforce performance and retention.
Sleep Reset is a digital sleep clinic designed to treat insomnia and sleep anxiety without relying on pills, supplements, or melatonin. The program is built around Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I), a structured, evidence-based approach that helps people retrain their minds and bodies for healthy sleep by addressing root causes — adjusting sleep schedules, changing unhelpful thought patterns, and using techniques like stimulus control and relaxation strategies. Sleep Reset
Sleep Reset was developed in partnership with board-certified sleep medicine clinicians, therapists, and sleep coaches, alongside top sleep researchers from Stanford and Yale. Sleep Reset The American Academy of Sleep Medicine recognizes CBT-I as the gold standard for treating insomnia — outperforming sleeping pills in both short-term effectiveness and long-term sustainability.
Here's how the program works in practice: The program begins with an in-depth sleep assessment to identify root causes of sleep issues. Users are then provided with a structured weekly action plan, along with daily access to a trained sleep coach via text messages for personalized support and guidance. The app also features sleep logging, progress tracking, and a library of meditations and mindfulness exercises. Mindtools
The results speak for themselves. A peer-reviewed study published in Frontiers of Sleep evaluated Sleep Reset's clinical effectiveness across 564 diverse participants, finding that participants slept 85 minutes more every night on average, fell asleep in half the time, and spent 41% less time awake at night. Sleep Reset Data shows that 75% of Sleep Reset members improve their sleep, gaining on average one and a half more hours of sleep each night, spending 41% less time awake mid-sleep, and needing 53% less time to fall asleep. Sleep Reset
Sleep Reset's mission is to provide a lifelong, sustainable solution to better sleep after just 12 weeks, with no pills or melatonin needed. Sleep Review For employees who have tried everything from white noise machines to melatonin gummies and still can't sleep consistently, it represents something genuinely different: a clinically supervised approach that targets the actual cause of the problem.
Sleep Reset is also now HSA and FSA eligible, allowing employees to use their Health Savings Account or Flexible Spending Account to invest in a clinically proven program that reduces insomnia symptoms and elevates total sleep time by an average of 85 minutes. Sleep Reset
Benepass is a flexible employee benefits platform founded in 2019 that centralizes pre-tax and post-tax benefits into a single experience. It's a powerful software designed to bring post-tax and pre-tax benefits into a single platform, praised by over 400,000 users in more than 80 countries. Hoppier
At its core, Benepass gives employers the ability to offer highly configurable benefit programs — from HSAs and FSAs to Lifestyle Spending Accounts — while giving employees one card and one app to manage all of it. The Benepass card transacts anywhere Visa is accepted, and using Benepass to deliver a global LSA allows employees to spend on local products and provides a streamlined, equitable benefits experience across the entire company. Benepass
One of Benepass's standout offerings is the Lifestyle Spending Account (LSA), which has become a marquee benefit for modern employers looking to attract and retain top talent. The Benepass LSA is the most customizable program, designed to meet the needs of a modern workforce — allowing employees to choose spending categories including wellness, professional development, childcare, family planning, mental health, recreation, or a general-purpose catchall. Benepass
Traditional wellness programs require companies to manage multiple vendors, which means higher costs and more admin burden. With Benepass, customers receive a centralized solution and often save 10–30% on administrative costs, with 95% of customers seeing employee engagement rise since employees have more freedom in how they spend their funds. Benepass
The intersection of Benepass and Sleep Reset is a natural one. Some LSAs cover sleep apps, such as Sleep Reset, which offers CBT-I-based programs, under their mental health benefits — and CBT-I is a proven treatment for insomnia that helps individuals identify and change thoughts and behaviors that interfere with sleep. Forma
For employees whose companies use the Benepass platform with a Wellness LSA or general-purpose LSA, Sleep Reset falls squarely within the eligible spending categories. Depending on how your employer has configured their Benepass plan, you may be able to access Sleep Reset under:
Wellness benefits: With Benepass Wellness, you get a turnkey program that allows employees to invest in their wellness, however they define it Benepass — and that increasingly includes sleep health.
Mental health benefits: Because Sleep Reset is built on CBT-I therapy and works directly on the psychological drivers of insomnia — including sleep anxiety, catastrophizing, and hyperarousal — it qualifies as a mental health support tool under many benefit configurations.
General-purpose LSA: For employees with a flexible catch-all LSA through Benepass, Sleep Reset subscriptions or program fees can typically be submitted for reimbursement.
Sleep Reset is explicitly listed as an eligible expense under some employer LSA plans, alongside other sleep support products and apps like blackout curtains, orthopedic pillows, and white noise machines.
For HR leaders and benefits administrators, the decision to enable Sleep Reset through a Benepass wellness benefit isn't just good for employee wellbeing — it's good business strategy.
First, sleep health is arguably the highest-leverage wellness intervention available. Unlike gym memberships that go unused or meditation apps that get opened twice, sleep is non-optional and universal. Every single employee needs it, and most aren't getting enough. A benefit that meaningfully improves sleep quality has downstream positive effects on everything from mental health and sick days to cognitive performance and interpersonal relationships at work.
Second, modern employees are asking for this kind of benefit. Lifestyle spending accounts are a key retention and recruitment tool to boost employee wellness and productivity Benepass — and the more personalized and impactful the eligible expenses, the higher the engagement and employee satisfaction. A program like Sleep Reset, which is science-backed and delivers measurable outcomes, adds credibility and perceived value to any LSA offering.
Third, the administrative lift is minimal. With Benepass, employers define what qualifies under their Wellness program and can choose from areas like physical wellness, mental wellness, and financial wellness Benepass — and once the policy is set, the platform handles everything else.
The flexibility of an LSA allows employers to encompass a wider definition of wellness than many traditional wellness programs allow Benepass, and sleep health is an area where that flexibility directly translates to measurable improvements in employee lives.
Ready to use your Benepass account to start your Sleep Reset program? Just subscribe and pay with your Benepass card. If Sleep Reset is covered under your LSA or wellness account, simply use your Benepass Visa card at checkout. The card is ready to use anywhere Visa is accepted — just use it like any other payment card and the platform handles the eligibility verification on the backend. Benepass
Start your program! Once enrolled, you'll be matched with a personal sleep coach and begin your customized 12-week CBT-I program. Most members see noticeable improvements in as little as 2 weeks, and over 90% report effectiveness after their first 28 days. App Store
Sleep is not a luxury. It is the biological foundation that makes everything else in life — work, relationships, physical health, mental clarity — function properly. For too long, sleep problems have been treated as personal failings or simply managed with melatonin and hope. Sleep Reset changes that equation by delivering clinically proven, coach-supported CBT-I therapy directly to your phone.
And with Benepass now accepting Sleep Reset as an eligible wellness expense, the barrier to access has never been lower. If your employer uses Benepass to administer wellness, LSA, or mental health benefits, you may already have the funding you need to fix your sleep — it's just a matter of knowing where to look.
Check your Benepass account today, take the Sleep Reset assessment, and start building the sleep your body has been asking for.
Dr. Areti Vassilopoulos | Psychologist | Sleep Medicine Expert
Dr. Vassilopoulos is the Clinical Content Lead for Sleep Reset and Assistant Professor at Yale School of Medicine. She has co-authored peer-reviewed research articles, provides expert consultation to national nonprofit organizations, and chairs clinical committees in pediatric health psychology for the American Psychological Association. She lives in New England with her partner and takes full advantage of the beautiful hiking trails.
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