I love sleep and I love helping people! I’ve spent over 20 years of my life dedicated to all things to do with sleep, babies, toddlers and mental health.
I am a certified Maternal and Child Sleep Consultant, Certified Birth and Postpartum Doula and an Internal Family Systems Practitioner.
I am the lucky mother to two beautiful, expressive and unique children and am married to the love of my life . Our family has had our share of sleep problems and I’ve learned first-hand how lack of sleep can affect health, emotional well-being and relationships within a family (hello rock-bottom!).
I recognize that there is no “one size fits” all approach to sleep and that is why my work uses scientifically-based research on sleep to build healthy sleep foundations that take into account the entire family. My heart-centred, play-based, holistic and nurturing sleep solutions address each unique child and their specific situation. In other words, I believe each family is special!
B.A. Social Science, University of Victoria
Maternal and Child Sleep Consultant, International Maternity and Parenting Institute
Happiest Baby on the Block Educator, The Happiest Baby Education Association
Level 2, Internal Family Systems Practitioner, IFS Institute
DONA trained Birth Doula, DONA International
Certified Dancing for Birth Instructor, Dancing for Birth
Perinatal Support Practitioner, Babies Naturally
Certification in Children’s Mental Health Fundamentals (in progress)-Institute of Child Psychology
Trainings:
Sleep Training/Swaddling, Nancy Hamm, Gentle Ventures, cncs, cisc
Post-partum Know How, Helping Parents Prepare for the First Weeks With Their Newborn, Adriana Lozada
Self Attachment, Biological Nurturing, Laid Back Breastfeeding, Baby Led Latching: Putting all that Research into Your Everyday Practice- Attie Sandink, RN. IBCLC., CBE,
The Neuropsychological Effects of Sleep Training and It’s Implications for Breastfeeding – Kathleen Kendall-Tackett Ph.D
Gospel of Latch and Flow, Jack Newman, MD, FRCPC, Centre for Breastfeeding Education, International Breastfeeding Centre.
What They Didn’t Teach you About Breastfeeding in Your Training, Dr. Jack Newman, MD, FRCPC
Helping Children Flourish- Dr. Gordon Neufeld Ph.D
Relationship Matters: Harnessing the Power of Attachment- Dr. Gordon Neufeld Ph.D
Helping Your Children Sleep- Hand in Hand ParentingThe Safe Sleep
Reclaim Play-Avital Schreiber-Levy
Seven: Guidelines for Bedsharing- Teresa Pittman The Birth and Beyond Conference 2016
Hand in Hand’s Helping Your Children’s Sleep
PODCAST
Interview with baby sleep expert Hali Blake
BLOG
4 Tips to help Your Little One Sleep Like a Champ