Annie Littlehales
Holistic Sleep Coach
Details
- CategorySleep Consultant
- Job LocationVirtually
- Location:Dublin, Ireland
Packages
- Sleep Connect€330.00Sleep connect is ideal if you have some questions, would like to have your situation comprehensively reviewed to have some clarity and greater confidence with knowledge and new ideas to work with. This service is great for more simple situations and is focused mainly on the assessment and the Zoom consultation. Therefore this service cannot include the full journey of the Behavioural & Biological Pathway and the Behavioural Pathway (See Approach) What's included: 1. Extensive questionnaire: This serves as a starting point prior to your consultation to enable me to get a comprehensive and holistic understanding of your child, your family and your situation with sleep. This covers all aspects of your child and family and enables me to have an initial comprehensive view of your circumstances. 2. Pre-Consultation Sleep Diary: You will receive a sleep diary to complete for 3-4 days prior to our consultation which I will review as part of the holistic assessment of your situation. 3. Zoom consultation: We will spend 1.5 hours to delve further into your individual situation and discuss your goals. You will come away from this session with an understanding about what is happening for your child and with guidance and recommendations for changes. We will also break down any sleep myths or misinformation that are causing unnecessary stress. 4. Recording of consultation: You will receive copy of the video which will be emailed to you for your ongoing reference. 5. Five days email support: You will have access to me for one email a day in the 5 business days after our consultation for follow up questions relating to our consultation. 6. Nurture & Thrive Sleep Village: You will be invited to this closed Facebook group full of like-minded parents where you can ask questions, receive encouragement and support, access great content, take part in Q&A's and more.
- Sleep NurtureA$650.00If you are feeling overwhelmed, stressed, anxious or you just value the benefit of walking closely together with support over 6-8 weeks with ongoing tailored support and the security and comfort that comes from journeying together.....the Sleep Nurture service is for you. This service is focused both on understanding and supporting your child's sleep as well as supporting your journey through this as a parent. This service provides offers an intensive support period as you adopt the recommendations and we can observe, review and adapt along the way. The Sleep Nurture enables you to receive intensive guidance and support, enables us to break down the recommendations into phases of changes and to take things at a pace that is suited to your situation and your child. What's Included: 1. Extensive questionnaire: This serves as a starting point prior to your consultation to enable me to get a comprehensive and holistic understanding of your child, your family and your situation with sleep. This covers all aspects of your child and family and enables me to have an initial comprehensive view of your circumstances. 2. Pre-Consultation Sleep Diary: You will receive a sleep diary to complete for 3-4 days prior to our consultation which I will review as part of the holistic assessment of your situation. 3. Zoom consultation: We will spend 1.5 hours to delve further into your individual situation and discuss your goals. You will come away from this session with an understanding about what is happening for your child and with guidance and recommendations for changes. We will also break down any sleep myths or misinformation that are causing unnecessary stress. 4. Recording of consultation: You will receive copy of the video which will be emailed to you for your ongoing reference 5. Detailed written summary: This will include all recommendations and discussion points covered in your video consultation to ensure you have clarity as you begin making changes. When you are tired, this summary is priceless! 6. Support Period: Your period commences from when you receive your summary with a 1 week of Sleep Diary and TWO x 45-minute Zoom Support sessions. Given every child, situation and family is different, sometimes things move quickly and sometimes we need to take time which is why you are given a 6-8 period to use this support. Please also note that support options are often tailored as I get to know you and we can discuss options that will best suit. Eg, changing a Support Session to text support. 1 Week Sleep Diary: We will walk closely together through the first 7 days/nights of your journey where you will be given guidance every day of your online sleep diary. This is a period of ongoing insight, learning, reviewing, adapting and encouraging. For some families, I will recommend an alternative to using the Sleep Diary if this isn't going to serve you well and this can be traded for more Support Sessions. 2 x 45 min Support Sessions: We will review how things are going to make adjustments and further recommendations as we move through the support period. This is a responsive approach adapting as we go. If further support is needed, more Support Sessions can be purchased as a follow-on for this service. 7. Wrap Up Review: At the end of the Support Period, you will receive a final review of the journey to ensure you have clarity on where to next as we acknowledge the ongoing nature of sleep development and changes to sleep. 8. Nurture & Thrive Sleep Village: You will be invited to this closed Facebook group full of like-minded parents where you can ask questions, receive encouragement and support, access great content, take part in Q&A's and more
- Sleep RefreshA$150.00The Sleep Refresh service is for returning families who had a Sleep Connect or Sleep Nurture consultation in the last 3 months. This services enables us to reconnect, review and discuss any further changes. This services includes: 1) Brief questionnaire to check in with where you’re up to. 2) 1 hour zoom consultation.
- Nurture & Thrive Sleep ProgramA$750.00The ultimate level of knowledge, premium individual support and community to understand and support your unique family's sleep with peace, clarity and joy as parents, with whatever is going on right now PLUS through every change and shift until your child is aged 2. Trifecta of life-time access to self-paced online course, unlimited tailored 1:1 coaching in small group online sessions and Facebook group, unlimited reviews of sleep diary's and welcome into a community of like-minded parents on the same journey. Accelerated access into program is available through initial 1:1 session. This program is via application only and can't wait to share this with you!
- Newborn Sleep FoundationsA$200.00Whether you are pregnant now or you have welcomed your little one into the world, you may have already realised there is an ocean of information and opinion about sleep, often conflicting views and commonly unrealistic expectations and pressure on babies and parents about sleep. This service can equip you with evidence-based knowledge that can help bring clarity, calm and confidence with your baby's sleep. 1. Zoom Consultation: We will spend 90 minutes together in a session filled with evidence-based knowledge to give you clarity and confidence in the way you can support your newborn's sleep. All your questions answered! 2. Sleep Guide: A general guide which will cover the foundations of Newborn sleep. 3. Nurture & Thrive Sleep Village: You will be invited to Facebook group full of like-minded parents where you can ask questions, receive encouragement and support, access great content, take part in Q&A's and more.
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- Babyem Qualified
- Qualified Paedriatric Sleep Consultant
- Qualifications Available Upon Request
Dear Family
I'm a Mum of two kids earthside plus as a first-time dog owner I'm on a learning curve with our dog names Sydney. My husband is English which means he will never ever support any Australian sporting teams and that my surname doesn't reflect my Armenian background. We met during our time working at Lenovo and here we are 15 years later living on the Northern Beaches of Sydney. I found the entry into motherhood smacked be between the eyeballs for two key reasons. Firstly, I have struggled with generalised anxiety my whole life and had built so many tools in place to help me and all of these came under fire once I became a Mum. Secondly, no one really prepared me for how hard the adaptation would be as a spreadsheet-loving, to-do lister, someone who loves to create order from chaos, who valued predictability and being able to solve problems quickly and efficiently. Everything to do with sleep and parenting felt confronting as I just wanted someone to tell me the one right way to do it all, give me the workflow! I wish I had the type of support I offer now back when I was going through that so that my journey was different. I love authentic connections with people, am highly empathic and am equally balanced in terms of my right and left brain which are all important parts of why I believe I'm great at what I do. Serving parents with lots of heart and lots of knowledge. The balance between academics and intuition. I'm also a singer which is a very different side of me and am returning to the stage this year after being on hiatus for many years where most of the songs aimed at kids so involving eating veggies, farting or ridiculous subject matter.
Services & Technique
I offer you a range of options based on needs and budgets however every interaction, guidance and support I offer you is founded on the truth that rested children and families come in all shapes and sizes. On this basis, I don't offer a sleep training approach which is critically focused on the best or key way to support sleep is a singular outcome for all babies and children which is independence with sleep and often prescriptive approaches. When we gain a more evidence-based view of sleep we can see that sleep is influenced by a long and varied list of factors which may or may not include how a baby or child falls asleep. I rather provide parents the great benefit of this whole view to be able to understand and support sleep in deeper and broader ways. Working together means we will do all the wonderful things to understand and optimise your child’s sleep, we will remove any roadblocks to their sleep and we will do this based on the evidence of what normal infant and child sleep development looks like as well as a deep knowledge of sleep science. We will find what's best for your child, your situation and your family. The key pillars of the approach offered are Holistic, No One Way, Gentle & Responsive and Knowledge. The approach involves two pathways for sleep: 1. Biological & Emotional Pathway: ensure everything about your child's sleep is in line with their biological and emotional needs based on a comprehensive Holistic Assessment to create optimal opportunities for your child's and family's sleep. 2. Behavioural Pathway: Some families do want to make changes to how their child is falling asleep or where and off the back off of, or at the same time as, the Biological & Emotional Pathway this is something I do also support. How this happens, the pace and what steps are tailored based on each unique child and situation. There is nothing cookie-cutter here as we account for all the range of factors that can impact this journey and that every child and family will adapt to change differently. For many parents, despite what initial goals they may have in mind, they find that the outcome of the Biological & Emotional Pathway is that everything feels sustainable, peaceful and good and this becomes their endpoint. For many other parents, they do wish to also make changed on the Behavioural Pathway. Another key aspect of the approach I offer you is about your journey as parents. The most evidence-based view is that we cannot in fact control every aspect of your baby or child's sleep or at specific times, so the key outcomes I offer you is that you feel clear about all the great ways to support sleep in your family and you also feel that the stress, confusion, uncertainty and overwhelm is lifted from your shoulders. There are both 1:1 services as well as coaching programs which are the first of their kind offered in Australia. I also offer options for groups with presentations and masterclasses.
Experience
I entered this business since 2017 and took the helm of the business in 2020 as a Holistic Sleep Coach. I am a Sleep Expert for a number of groups including: - One Fine Baby Expo Melbourne - one of Australia's largest baby/pregnancy expos - Nurturehood Australia - a mother/baby class combining the best early childhood research, with plenty of fun and games thrown in - Gentle, Attachment & Responsive Parenting - Australia I have a background in Adult Education which enables me to be an effective educator and coach. Also having struggled with anxiety and difficult Post Natal Anxiety with both my children, I have both knowledge and empathy with all the difficult thoughts and feelings that can come about as a parent which enables me to serve with compassion and relevant support. I have a deep interest in research and study and being able to have deep knowledge about all the different factors that can influence sleep. This experience means I'm often able to pick up on things or connect dots that have previously been missed. What parents share with me consistently is that I help them feel calm, heard, supported and that my knowledge base is so helpful often resulting in me picking up on things that have flown under the radar up till meeting me. The practitioners who refer to me often say 'I didn't know there was someone like you' as they understand my depth of knowledge and my ability to undertake a skilled and holistic assessment of sleep.
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