Become a Certified Pediatric Sleep Consultant
Get certified with a fully online pediatric sleep consulting course
- Study from home on your own schedule!
- Learn ALL methods of sleep coaching, including their benefits & limitations.
- Receive personalized feedback and guidance from an expert sleep consultant.
- Learn how to start and run your own business as a pediatric sleep consultant!
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What Is a Pediatric Sleep Consultant?
A sleep consultant or “sleep coach” is a professional expertly trained to help parents and caregivers create safe and healthy sleep habits for their children. Although sleep consultants primarily focus on infant sleep issues, with QC's certification you'll be well prepared to help the whole family improve their sleep habits. You'll consult with parents and caregivers on their child's needs and the methods they're comfortable with, and then work with them to establish a bedtime routine that will work for their child. You'll consult on common bedtime/nighttime problems to help the child sleep comfortably through the night, so that the parents can get adequate rest, too!
Some sleep consultants specialize in one-time consultations or coaching sessions. Others offer full-service consulting, where they will visit their client's home for several days or weeks in order to solve the child's sleep problems. And of course, you can offer a range of services to suit any client that comes your way!
Basic Requirements for Becoming a Sleep Consultant
Patience — Infants and toddlers are vulnerable human beings with diverse personalities. Caregivers are often stressed, busy, and overwhelmed. This is where you come in. You need to bring calm and order to stressful conditions.
Flexibility — Both children and their caregivers have different needs and preferences. You need to be attentive to these differences and be able to adapt your approach depending on the child or caregiver. Sometimes that means putting your own preferences aside and striving to do what's best for your clients.
Reliability — As a professional, you'll be expected to adhere to a set schedule. Time management skills are essential to succeed in this career.
Care & Compassion — You're going to be working with newborns, babies, and toddlers every day. Sometimes they'll be difficult, for a variety of different reasons. You'll need to be empathetic as they adjust to their new routines.
What You'll Learn
In this highly interactive self-paced training course, you'll learn:
- Licensing, restrictions and legal aspects of becoming a sleep consultant
- Infant and toddler sleep habits and behaviors
- Sleep advice for the whole family
- Sleep training methods and philosophies
- Sleep aids and alternatives
- How to be an effective sleep coach
- Evaluating & creating individualized sleep plans
- Implementation of sleep training
- Special situations to consider
- Troubleshooting problems
- How to start your sleep consulting business
How You'll Learn
QC's signature online learning experience is designed to help you succeed! QC's courses provide you with tons of hands-on experience to enrich your learning. Combine that with detailed individualized feedback from your tutor and you're guaranteed to receive a well-rounded educational experience.
- Log in to your Online Student Center to access all your course materials, including interactive lessons, instructional videos and assignments.
- Complete a variety of theoretical and practical assignments designed to hone your skills as a professional sleep consultant.
- An industry expert will grade your work and provide you with personalized feedback.
- Once you've completed your course and your tuition has been paid in full, you'll be all set to graduate and receive your professional certification!
Why Choose QC?
Affordable
Since QC's course is fully online, you'll have lifetime access to your student center at no additional cost. Everything you need to build a successful career is included in your course.
Flexible
QC's 100% online program allows you to work at your own pace. You'll complete interactive lessons and watch detailed instructional videos with 1-on-1 support whenever you need it.
Comprehensive
With QC's interactive online training, you'll learn every method of sleep consulting. You'll master all the skills you need to launch a profitable business in this thriving industry!
Included in Your Course
Assignments & Personalized Feedback
Complete assignments quickly and efficiently in the Online Student Center. Our expert tutor will evaluate your work and provide personalized audio feedback. Your tutor will share industry tips giving you a huge advantage as you're beginning your career.
Student Advisor Support
In addition to your personal tutor, you'll be able to get help from QC's expert team of student advisors and teaching assistants. Any time you have questions about your course, student account, certification, or anything else, you can reach out to your QC Student Advisor by phone, email, or live chat. Advisors are available 7 days/week to help you through your course.
Business Training
You'll learn how to set up your business, create pricing packages, market your services and more. You'll also have access to all your lessons and assignments, which are regularly updated with the newest and most up-to-date content. You'll also have access to custom business templates to help you work with clients effectively!
Certification & Professional Designation
Once you graduate, you'll be sent your certificate by mail. The certification allows you to put the Pediactric Sleep Consulting Professional (PSCP™) designation on your business cards, website, resume, and more. Get a certification that's noticed and respected.
Full Course Outline
Here's a detailed outline of all the topics you'll study in the sleep consultant certification course.
Unit A: Sleep Consulting Practices
In this first unit, you'll explore the basics of sleep consulting. You'll learn the science of sleep, how children sleep, and how you can help caregivers promote healthy sleep habits.
- Industry overview
- Roles, responsibilities, and required skills
- Overview of key skills, including communication, planning, and organizing
- Common misconceptions about sleep consulting
- Licensing requirements, business needs, additional certifications
- Professional associations & organizations
- Determining infant age groups
- Types of sleep
- Understanding newborn, baby, and toddler development
- Ideal sleep schedules for children in every age group
- Effects of sleep on childhood development
- A holistic vision of sleep habits and behaviors
- Understanding mental and physical development in infants
- Habits, nutrition, sleep, and behavior formulation
- Common myths about behaviors and habits
- Caregiving and childhood brain development
- Caregiving and habit formation
- Caregiving and building healthy habits
Unit B: Sleep Training Methods & Philosophies
Next, you'll learn every method of sleep consulting, including the advantages and disadvantages of each. You'll learn to use various tools of the trade to help create an optimal sleep space and promote healthy sleep for infants in every age group.
- Creating, implementing, establishing, and modifying sleep routines
- Key sleep training methods and techniques
- The "Cry it out" / "Extinction" method
- The "Check and Console" / "Ferber" method
- The "Chair" method
- The "Fading" method
- The "Pick Up Put Down" method
- The "No cry" method(s)
- Effects of home environments on family sleep habits
- Sleep environments for different age groups
- Transitioning from healthy co-sleeping for newborns to sleep training toddlers and older children
- Creating a perfect nursery
- Incorporating sleep technologies, including white noise generators, sleep training alarm clocks, night lights, and daylight simulation
- Essential oils and diffusers, with a focus on calming scents, oils to avoid, and safety tips
- Understanding and preventing Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
Unit C: Sleep Consulting Application
Now that you have a good foundation of knowledge as a sleep consultant, you'll start learning how to apply those practices to provide the best service possible to clients. You'll learn how to create, implement, and adapt individualized sleep plans unique to each client.
- Onboarding clients
- Conducting client consultations
- Client intake processes
- Client follow-ups
- Tools and templates to help you work with client data
- Getting and using honest feedback from clients
- Using questionnaires and surveys to determine client needs
- Key questions to ask during client interviews
- Identifying client concerns during intake
- Using intake surveys to build sleep plans
- Key components of every sleep plan
- Creating ideal sleep schedules for newborns, babies, toddlers, and older children
- Tracking a sleep plan
- Creating effective sleep logs
- Evaluating a sleep plan based on client feedback
- Revising a sleep plan before and after implementation
- Program considerations for each age group
- Types of plans: from "skeleton plans" to "premium plans", upgrades, follow-ups, and how to offer discounts
- Creating templates for different sleep consulting methods
- Creating templates to match parental needs
- How to communicate your sleep plan
- Materials to provide clients at the start of a sleep plan
- Providing feedback during the first days of the plan
- Reviewing sleep logs and modifying sleep plans
- Conducting follow-ups
Unit D: Professional Sleep Consulting & Coaching
In this unit, you'll start putting into practice the knowledge you've acquired over the past three units. You'll go over a number of case studies of unique situations you're likely to encounter as a sleep consultant. You'll start learning how to best work with different clients, and how to turn your new skills and knowledge into a rewarding career.
- Identifying appropriate methods in every situation
- How to prepare to work with different families
- Sleep training multiple infants of the same age
- Sleep training multiple children of different ages
- Training twins or triplets
- Training children with older or younger siblings
- Understanding and sleep training infants with disabilities, medical diagnoses, or special needs
- Creating effective solutions for a single caregiver using a dual-parent model
- Working with parents and medical professionals
- Adapting sleep training plans for single-parent households or single caregivers with multiple children
- Working with non-parent caregivers
- Teaching clients how to navigate infant age groups
- Communication skills, including listening to clients, delivering your message, and coaching for longevity
- Support skills, including constructive feedback, positive reinforcement, and compassionate understanding
- Planning, setting goals, and creating strategies
- Implementing feedback to encourage growth and change behavior
- Working with limitations (your own and your clients')
- Navigating parental conflicts
- Adjusting the plan when the infant isn't responding
- Rejection of methods by parents
- Addressing lifestyle changes
- Accounting for medical issues in the sleep plan
Unit E: Business Training
You'll learn essential skills to help you launch a successful sleep consulting business. You'll work on business startup and marketing your services and gain invaluable feedback from your tutor in the process!
- Naming your business and creating a business plan
- Identifying the core values of your business and defining an ideal client profile
- Assessing needs in your community and gaps in the market
- Setting your prices, packages, and learning how to incentivize returning customers or customer referrals
- Outlining your budget and expected income
- Creating realistic business goals
- Ethical considerations & legal obligations when working with children
- Certification requirements & service restrictions
- Professional associations & organizations
- Client contracts & other legal documents
- Insurance considerations
- Health care training, including CPR, first aid, and other certifications to consider
- Creating an effective brand, personalizing your brand, and using your brand to sell your business
- Finding clients and advertising your services
- Tips for learning about your clientele and how to market your services using traditional and digital marketing strategies
- Creating an effective online presence through your website and social media
- Using community events, groups, and online groups and events to promote your services
- Identifying key partners, developing relationships with local businesses, and creating joint advertising with other small businesses
Unit F: Final Project
This unit is composed of a final project where you will create a full sleep plan for a real client. You'll practice interacting with new clients, filling out an intake questionnaire, and developing a full sleep plan with feedback from your tutor.
Your Sleep Consulting Tutor
When you enroll, you'll be paired up with one of QC's expert sleep consulting tutors. Your tutor will be responsible for grading your work and providing feedback on your assignments.
Rosalee Lahaie Hera
Rosalee is a mother of two, a certified sleep consultant and owner of Baby Sleep Love. With a background in health services, Rosalee turned to sleep consulting after having to hire a sleep consultant for her own daughter. Since then, she's worked with hundreds of families to provide completely customized sleep plans for their children. Rosalee specializes in tailoring her services for each family, and will be an invaluable resource to you when starting your sleep consulting business!
Your Sleep Consulting
Certification
Once you successfully complete the course, you'll receive your Pediatric Sleep Consulting Professional (PSCP™) certificate. This certification is yours forever and doesn't expire. Use it as proof of competency with clients and/or employers. Your professional designation is a great way to set yourself apart from the competition. Display it proudly on your business cards, marketing materials, website, and anywhere else you advertise your services!
Your Guarantee
Starting a new career can be scary but don't worry!
Once you enroll in QC's Sleep Consultant Course, you'll be protected by a
21-day money-back guarantee!
21-Day Guarantee
Once your enrollment has been processed and you gain access to the online student center, you have 21 days to review the course materials and decide whether you want to take the course.
This is your chance to inspect the entire course, risk-free! If you decide this course isn't the right fit for you, simply contact your student advisor to withdraw from the course. As long as you haven't submitted any work to your tutor yet, your tuition will be refunded in full!
Additional information on QC's money back guarantees is available in your enrollment agreement.
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Start your online sleep consultant training today
and launch an exciting, rewarding career!