The Top Sleep Coaches
The Top Sleep coaches
Welcome to an exploration of top sleep coaches who are dedicated to helping families achieve better sleep and well-being.
These coaches bring unique expertise and approaches to addressing sleep challenges in children, focusing on personalized strategies that consider developmental needs, health conditions, and parenting styles.
Whether you're navigating sleep issues due to special needs, seeking holistic approaches, or looking to empower yourself with evidence-based knowledge, these coaches offer insights and solutions to transform your sleep journey.
Discover how these experts combine science with compassion to support families in achieving restful nights and nurturing daytime experiences. Their commitment to understanding the intricacies of sleep and its impact on overall health underscores their dedication to improving lives one sleep at a time.
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In Brief : The Top Sleep Coaches
- Melissa Doman - Melissa Doman is a sleep coach exclusively for children with special needs. She has 14 years of experience teaching parents of children with a variety of diagnoses, including Autism, ADHD/ADD, Cerebral palsy, Trisomy 21, and more.
- Consuela Hendriks - Consuela Hendriks is a registered child healthcare psychologist, a remedial educationalist and EMDR-therapist with over 20 years of experience in childrens’ health care.
- Soda Kuczkowski - Soda Kuczkowski is a Certified Sleep Coach who has passionately worked in the field of sleep medicine and sleep health for the past 16 years.
- Annie Littlehales - Annie Littlehales is a Holistic & Gentle Sleep Coach who loves to wrap her arms around parents to empower them to go from feeling anxious.
- Michelle S.Donaghy - At MSD Sleep Coach we are trained and very experienced in all sleep coaching approaches not just one.
- Desiree - When I was first pregnant with twins in 2008 I didn’t realize that sleep would play such a crucial role in my life.
- Allison - I like to think of myself as someone who, for the most part, has been able to accomplish anything I really set my mind to.
- Lana Walsh - I spent my entire adult life half asleep. When I was in high school, my parents thought I was a typical teenager, staying up too late with a bad attitude.
- Mar De Carlo - IPHI’s founder, Mar De Carlo (formerly Mary Oscategui prior to 2017) is also the founder of the Association of Professional Sleep Consultants, International Academy of Baby Planner Professionals, Business Sanctuary and Physical Awakening Yoga School.
- Maria - My name is María. I’m a wife, a mother, a Certified Baby Sleep Consultant and the founder of Sleepy Miracles Consulting.
- Chole - After 10+ years of experience working with newborns and children as a nanny and Postpartum Doula, I realized just how important and powerful sleep is to the health of little ones and their parents.
- Kathy Monroe - Kathy Monroe (mother of five) has passionately worked with Motherhood Center for over eight years, as a Labor and Postpartum Doula, Sleep Coach, and Newborn Care Educator.
- Dr. Washington - After 37 years of practicing in California’s Silicon Valley, where sacrificing sleep is the norm, Roger W.
Melissa Doman
Melissa Doman is a sleep coach exclusively for children with special needs. She has 14 years of experience teaching parents of children with a variety of diagnoses, including Autism, ADHD/ADD, Cerebral palsy, Trisomy 21, and more. Melissa has helped hundreds of families by providing lasting solutions for their child's sleep struggles. Melissa's goal is to make sure that every child can succeed and thrive on a great night's rest.
What do you do differently or how is your coaching different from others?
In 2016 when I started coaching there was no such thing as a sleep coach for kids with special needs. Parents came to me frustrated and tired of hearing there was no solution other than medication for their child's sleep struggles. By creating customized plans that address a child's sleep needs as well as developmental needs, I've now helped well over 500 special needs families get the rest that they need and deserve.
What according to you has been the single most important thing that has contributed to your success as a coach?
In addition to creating incredibly gradual sleep plans to teach independence, I feel the single most important thing is incorporating sensory techniques, physical activity, and nutritional balance for a good night's rest. It is seldom that parents are getting the guidance they need in these areas and it is a crucial piece to a restful night.
Consuela Hendriks
Consuela Hendriks is a registered child healthcare psychologist, a remedial educationalist and EMDR-therapist with over 20 years of experience in childrens’ health care. As a mom of 3, she dealt with sleep problems of her children due to GORD (reflux), allergies and developmental disabilities. She specialized in the area of sleep (science), followed several educational courses focused on sleep and amongst other titles is a certified Holistic Sleep Coach (OCN level 6, university degree level) and certified Baby-led Sleep & Well-being Specialist, the first in the Netherlands, where she’s located. She offers holistic and gentle sleep support for families at her private practice Slaap Zoet™ and does this in a practical yet evidence-based way.
What do you do differently or how is your coaching different from others?
I offer holistic responsive support based on developmental and neurobiological science. I work with several methods, techniques, and scientific developmental principles, always tailored to the child’s needs and that of their parents/caregivers. I do not work with 'Cry it out' methods. I work with strategies based on connection and attachment, and prioritize the needs of the child and their biology and natural rhythms.
What according to you has been the single most important thing that has contributed to your success as a coach?
The most important thing that has contributed to the growth of my private practice is respecting infant and child biology and working with evidence based knowledge about sleep and child development. Educating parents/caregivers and setting realistic expectations aligned with the child’s biology and level of (im)maturity makes the difference.
Soda Kuczkowski
Soda Kuczkowski is a Certified Sleep Coach who has passionately worked in the field of sleep medicine and sleep health for the past 16 years. She is the founder of START WITH SLEEP, an organization that serves as a community resource for sleep health education. She is recognized as a sleep authority and has been featured and quoted in global publications such as Entrepreneur magazine and the London Times.
