Ditch the sleep stress for peaceful nights and naps with 1:1 sleep coaching

A truly holistic and responsive approach to better sleep.  All recommendations are completely tailored to your family's sleep goals and the challenges you are facing with sleep.  We look at the whole sleep puzzle and help you fit those pieces together so your family gets the best sleep possible.  

Maybe you know you need to make a change, but you need help doing so in a truly gentle way. You want to respect your child's needs and the needs of your family

Maybe you’re overwhelmed with all the conflicting information online about baby and toddler sleep when all you want is to feel at peace and love this season of parenthood.

Maybe you’re done second-guessing every aspect of sleep and ready for a clear path to better sleep without ignoring your instincts.

There is plenty of free content online, but sometimes you need someone to help you cut through the fluff, to reassure you about what's normal, empower you with responsive, and evidenced based sleep solutions tailored to your unique family and child.

With 1:1 support you’ll receive personalized expert advice and guidance to improve sleep, your confidence and feel supported in trusting your instincts

Say goodbye to...

  • Wrecking your brain trying to figure out what is normal for your child and their sleep.
  • Always feeling overwhelmed because of all the conflicting sleep info and worrying that you’re doing something wrong.
  • Feeling burnt out and defeated trying to get everything “perfect” so your child will sleep well.

And instead

  • Leave behind the anxiety and overwhelm that comes with trying to figure out your child's sleep and enjoy a relaxed and peaceful parenting journey
  • Navigating sleep with confidence and a solid understanding of how to make positive shifts towards your sleep goals.
  •  Save countless hours searching for solutions online or experimenting with approaches that may not work, and get the tools to focus on what truly works for YOUR unique child and family 

1:1 Coaching Packages

Core Sleep Coaching

This core support package is perfect for families experiencing  one or two sleep challenges and are looking for holistic ways to make improvements. You will gain a deeper understanding of your child’s sleep and learn responsive and evidence-based strategies for better sleep.

Includes:

  • Abbreviated sleep intake & analysis with an optional sleep log   
  • 1:1 Coaching and sleep education session   
  • Written summary of main action points from our call, in addition to the call recording
  • Access to the complete resource library to utilize at your own pace , jam packed with additional resources, workshops and guides.  ($300+ value!)

Comprehensive Sleep Coaching

This comprehensive support package is perfect for families experiencing significant sleep challenges.  You'll gain a clear, holistic plan of action, perfectly aligned with your families goals, a deeper understanding of your child's unique needs and improve sleep with tons of ongoing guidance
 
Includes:

  • Comprehensive sleep intake & analysis
  • 1:1 coaching and sleep education session 
  • Custom-created sleep plan and educational resource
  • Follow up support of 4 weekly calls or email check-ins 
  • As needed email support 
  • Access to the complete sleep resource library to utilize at your own pace ($300+ value!)

You want evidence-based information to improve your child's sleep that keeps the relationship between you and your child at the forefront. 

I am equipped with the most current knowledge of infant sleep, brain development, attachment and the transformative impact of nurture in infancy. I am also educated in the art of infant sleep techniques, navigating individual family needs and supporting families, as a 2x certified sleep professional.

You trust your intuition when it comes to parenting your child and want to be responsive.

You are the expert of your child, nobody will know them better than you- there is no doubt about that! My approach is rooted in learning your unique child, understanding their communication and responding as best we can! You will be given all the knowledge you need to optimize your unique little's sleep while making choices that you can feel GOOD about, working with your child, not against them.

You want to optimize your child's sleep while maintaining biologically normal and developmentally appropriate expectations.

We can do a lot when it comes to baby and toddler sleep; we can’t change biology without consequence, I will never make guarantees about sleep results - your child is entirely human with unique sets of needs, and making positive shifts can take time. I CAN guarantee that you will be confident that when your little is developmentally capable of sleeping through the night- they will!

1:1 Support is for you if

  • You want to optimize your child's sleep, using science-based and attachment-focused strategies while accepting realistic and developmentally appropriate expectations. 
  • You're looking to make changes in a way that respects your child's emotional needs and in a way that feels right for your family.
  •  You trust your intuition when it comes to parenting your child. You are the expert in your child, and nobody knows them better than you. 
  • You want to feel confident  knowing that you’re doing what’s best for your child AND you! Because meeting your own needs for rest and your child's needs are not mutually exclusive! 
  • You want science-backed strategies to support your child to their best sleep, with a deep understanding of your unique child and acceptance that they can’t be forced to sleep longer or more independently than they are developmentally ready for.

You may want to keep looking if...

  • You want a generic or strict plan for sleep. Through out work together you will receive the tools you need to improve sleep and wellbeing in your household, according to YOUR unique family and goals, NOT generic solutions.
  • You want a quick fix or guarantees about your child's sleep. Truly, this isn't possible.  Every child is a unique human, and all techniques and strategies need to be adapted to your individual little one, along with an understanding that sleep often improves in a non-linear fashion.  Any program that makes these guarantees sacrifice responsiveness with behaviour modification-based methods.  
  • You want your child to fall asleep completely independent, or put them in the crib and walk out.  Learning to self-soothe takes being soothed, and is not a developmentally appropriate expectation.  Through responsive, nurturing care is how a little one learns the ability to self-soothe.


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You got questions, I got answers

I work with families who have children from newborn to age 4. If you’re unsure about what support package best suits your child’s developmental stage and goals, book a free sleep consultation.

Today!  Now!  As soon as you enroll you can begin your intake forms (if applicable) and schedule your call!

Every family has unique goals and challenges, so if you don’t see your specific challenge here, that doesn’t mean I can’t help!

 Book a free sleep consultation, and we can chat about your goals, challenges, and what sleep support would include.  

I can support your family with,

✔ Education about normal infant and toddler sleep and realistic expectations
✔ Difficulty falling asleep and staying asleep
✔ Extended night wakings
✔ Feeling overwhelmed with sleep
✔ Parental exhaustion
✔ Frequent night waking
✔ Fighting sleep
✔ Challenging naps  
✔ Nap transitions
✔ Split nights (awake for extended periods in the middle of the night)
✔ False starts (wakes 45 minutes after bedtime or multiple times in the first 2-4 hours of the night)
✔ Early morning rises (waking for the day before 6 AM or earlier than you’d like)
✔ Changing sleep associations/soothing strategies
✔ Sleep space transitions (moving to their own room, or from bedsharing/contact napping to solo sleep)
✔ Childcare transitions
✔ Bedtime battles
✔ Involving your partner or support person in sleep routines
✔ Night weaning after 12 months

No, I do not use sleep training in my approach to sleep.

Sleep training takes a behaviour-based approach to sleep, changing how a child communicates their needs to their caregiver instead of changing sleep itself.  This includes full extinction, “cry it out,” timed or incremental soothing, and “parent present” methods like the chair method or pick up/put down.    

When I support families to better sleep through this membership, it doesn't include any methods that limit how a parent responds to their child’s cries, either in increments or by having the caregiver respond in only specific ways.  

Instead, we take a completely holistic perspective of sleep, assessing all aspects that may impact your child’s sleep challenges to address the root cause and meet your goals.  

Everything from  

✔  Sleep environment
✔  Routines and rhythms
✔  Day and nighttime sleep balance
✔  Feeding and nutrition  
✔  Underlying medical concerns  
✔  Sleep science  
✔  Emotional wellbeing  
✔  Family dynamics and relationships  
✔  And more!  

Along with developmentally appropriate expectations and strategies to support your well-being as a parent.  I support you to find the root cause and optimize sleep through responsive parenting and sleep science, with the ultimate goal of you feeling empowered and confident in supporting your child to their best sleep.  

I place immense value in you trusting your instincts and tuning into your unique child, meeting their needs, resulting in sleep solutions that you can feel good about.  And in this way, you will have real, lasting results, not only with sleep but in your parenting journey as a whole.  

In short, I believe there is a better way to improve sleep for the family, one that honours a child’s emotional and physical needs and supports a child’s attachment needs.    Sleep is not a skill that can be taught; it is a biological function.  No sleep training method truly teaches sleep, connecting sleep cycles or self-soothing – it merely changes how a child communicates with their caregivers.  

Sleep is a vulnerable state for all humans, and even more so for our babies.  It’s crucial that children go to sleep from a place of calm and feeling connected to you, not out of defensiveness from being left alone.   Separation is one of our children’s most wounding experiences; it is only through connection and attachment that true independence can develop.  Sleep training methods are designed to use separation and lack of parental response to change sleep behaviour, at the risk of a baby’s emotional needs being unmet.

Sleep training goes against your parental instincts.   It never feels good to hear our little ones cry or be upset, and they depend on us to provide them calm, safety and security in their world.   They rely on us to respond to them and to meet their needs. As caregivers, we are biologically hardwired to feel activated when we hear our little ones crying for us.   Even while we are making changes, supporting our children’s emotions is a crucial part of their emotional and psychological development.

Babies are designed to wake at night and communicate their needs to their caregivers to have them met.  It is vital that they do so and that they can trust us to respond!  Unfortunately, sleep training only teaches a child that their cries will be ignored, that we won’t come when they call and leave their underlying needs unmet.  

We have significant research that shows that traditional sleep training does not result in a baby who wakes less frequently or who has better sleep quality – instead, it merely changes how the baby communicates to their caregiver when they do wake.  

I believe that babies need responsive, nurturing care both day and night and that there is a way to maximize a parent’s rest while honouring a baby’s emotional and physical needs.  Improving sleep for the family in a way that understands biological norms, is aligned with realistic expectations, and addresses the root of sleep disruptions. 

Instead of merely focusing on sleep behaviour, I take a truly holistic perspective of sleep and assess all factors influencing sleep to support your family’s rest.

All strategies and plans are founded in responsive, attachment-focused methods, designed to get to the root of sleep challenges and give you the tools you need to make changes that align with your child and values.  

Remember, you are the expert on your baby.  My job is to guide you, offer suggestions and strategies, shine a light on any areas of concern, recommend solutions based on my experience, encourage emotional connections, build stronger relationships, and support you along the way.  

My approach is designed with developmentally appropriate expectations and the latest research in neuroscience, brain development and attachment.   There are no generic or arbitrary rules or guidelines, but instead is tailored to your unique family. 

Both the Confidence & Coaching and Nurturing & Guidance sleep support packages include a comprehensive intake form you fill out before our first call.  In this sleep assessment, I get a complete picture of all the factors influencing sleep, understand your unique family, and can best provide suggestions and strategies that honour your individual family that will support your goals.

I assess:
✔   Family lifestyle
✔   Temperament
✔   Your wellbeing
✔   Birth experience
✔   Sleep environment
✔   Nutrition and feeding, including one day of feeding logs  
✔   Screening for underlying medical conditions that may be impacting sleep quality
✔   Routines
✔   Soothing strategies
✔   Daytime stimulation
✔   3-day sleep log so I can understand current sleep rhythms and your child’s unique sleep needs. 

Yes, entirely custom to your goals and your family.  Your sleep plan is delivered following our first call together so that we can first talk about what may work best for your family and aligns with your goals.  It is not a generic 10-step program; its purpose is that you have a clear resource with suggestions to guide you forward, not a strict plan you must adhere to.

The sleep plan will reflect everything that we discuss on the call, laid out in a way that is easily implementable as you find beneficial.  I provide suggestions, and you decide the right fit for your family and child.  There are no generic solutions or one-size-fits-all solutions!  

Your little one is entirely unique, and so is every family!  Therefore, the strategies need to be ones that you can feel good about and that work for your little one, as unique as they are.  You know your baby best, and there is no one path to better sleep and well-being. 

The concept that babies can learn how to “self-soothe” by being left to cry or when separated from their caregiver is a complete myth.   Babies are neurologically incapable of self-soothing or calming themselves from a state of stress without the support of a caregiver.  

True self-soothing is an ability that babies learn through first BEING soothed.

That is just how brain development works.  

The foundation of this ability is the baby’s experiences of their caregiver’s timely, sensitive, consistent and appropriate responses to their distress (also the basis for a secure attachment).    They learn to self-soothe when they learn to trust that you are there to help them whenever they need you and that you can read their cues and understand their communication.    

We bring our calm to meet our children when they are stressed or upset.  By meeting our children with calm, soothing, responsive care, we support their nervous system to calm.  We aid them in this process, building connections in their brain so they can regulate themselves effectively in the future.   It happens through the developmental process, not as a skill they can be taught.  

Children learn how to regulate their emotions by borrowing the mature adult brain and being provided coregulation and support.  From this foundation of first BEING soothed and having regulation modelled to them, children can learn how to do it themselves when their brain develops the capability to do so.   After 1000s of experiences of being soothed, their brain slowly gains these skills.  

When a baby is in a state of stress, if they call for you, they need you to respond, and by having this understanding, we can do so confidently, knowing that we are setting our children up for their best chance at effective future regulation.  

It is a reality that most babies (and even toddlers!) need some level of parental support to fall asleep.  However, suppose there are certain aspects around soothing strategies that aren’t sustainable for you.  In that case, I absolutely encourage you to make changes around those aspects while still finding a way to support your child’s need for your presence to feel calm and safe as they enter sleep.

For example, it takes a long time for your child to fall asleep, or the support they prefer is making you uncomfortable or causing pain (for example, bouncing on a yoga ball hurts your back).  You can change elements that no longer serve your family while meeting their need for your support in ways that work for you both.  

When we support our children’s sleep, we build lifelong sleep health by:

✔ Lending our adult brain, so infants enter sleep in a rest and digest parasympathetic state of their nervous system
✔ Create an association between sleep and a feeling of safety and comfort
✔ Facilitate brain waves in sleep that are more restorative
✔ Influence less night waking
✔ Help them go to sleep faster
✔ Influence their childhood, adolescent and adult sleep to be more consolidated, better quality, reduced insomnia  

Depending on your child's temperament, some babies need more support to fall asleep while others prefer more space.  If your child communicates that they need your support, that’s simultaneously normal, expected AND challenging.  

Due to their immature nervous system, babies often need the soothing presence of an adult, and this isn’t something we can necessarily change without consequence.   Our presence makes all the difference in their developing brain, supporting their lifelong mental wellness with nurturing care and support.  Nurture is what builds the brain towards resilience and builds sleep health.

Supporting a child to fall asleep independently is a marathon, not a sprint.    

Your child doesn’t have to fall alseep independent of parental support in order to sleep well.  Regardless of if you feed, rock, bounce, hold or cuddle your child to sleep, it will never create sleep problems or additional wakes.   This isn’t a skill that they must learn; supporting your child to sleep, however you choose, does not hinder them from sleeping well.  

However, there are often times when parents want to make changes around how they are supporting their child to sleep, either because their current settling strategies are no longer sustainable for them or because they want to gently encourage future goals of falling asleep independently.  Perhaps transitioning from bouncing to holding, or from feeding to cuddling to sleep.  This is absolutely something that I can support you with.  You can absolutely change how you support your child to sleep without removing your support all together; knowing that it is normal for babies, toddlers and even preschoolers to enjoy the warm comfort of your presence as they drift off to sleep.  

Unlike traditional sleep training, I will never make any wild claims like your baby will sleep 12 hours without calling for you in 12 days or anything else.  (many of these claims are for marketing purposes and not reality anyway!)

Your child is unique, and maintaining developmentally appropriate expectations while working on improving sleep is crucial – when children have needs to be met, they need to be able to trust us to respond and meet those needs.  Babies and toddlers are whole humans with complex needs, much of which are out of our complete control.  

Making guarantees about another human merely sets parents up for unrealistic expectations.    I do guarantee that you will walk away feeling confident about working towards your sleep goals in a way that aligns with your values, so you will be able to stress less and get the rest you need.   

Hava gave us many customized and gentle tips and tools to help set our family up for better, amazing sleep. I am so thankful I reached out, and I highly recommend Hava if you’re looking for an alterative to sleep training. With her philosophy and guidance we were able to find the best way to repair our families sleep without feeling like we HAD to do something we didn’t want to, like “cio.” She helped us understand what what normal and provide real ways to improve sleep for everyone.
- Arriella
Before working with Hava we were overwhelmed trying to figure out which of the many variables had to be adjusted to help myu daughter get longer stretches at night. Working together with our family, Hava was able to support us through adjustments throughout the entire day and we have seem improvements, not just to nighttime sleep but to naps also. We really appreciated the ongoing support after the coaching call, as it really helped us put into practise the recommendations and get feedback. All of the additional resources she provides were also amazing to really understand our little one, and feel empowered to help her. Hava has a wonderful approach and we couldn’t thank her enough.   
- Correy
Hava was so knowledgeable, kind and helpful in improving our 7 month old’s sleep. She put together a plan in collaboration with us to make adjustments to naps, getting longer stretches overnight and decreasing the length of time it took to get them asleep for the night. Hava’s approach completely aligned with our values and she was so hands on in supporting us.   
- Kendel