One to One Consultation with Follow-on Guidance and Support
This is the process for one to one, support-led services from four months to 6 years of age. I offer a few levels of service for you to consider.
You can opt to work with me directly on a one-to-one basis, via zoom or in my home office in Cork (on request) and receive a personalized plan with ongoing, quality guidance and support.
I offer a support package that includes a main consultation and 2, 3, 4 or 6 follow-on support calls and support for this period of time, which generally translates to 2, 3, 4 or 6 weeks of engagement.
You will have direct contact with me via email to answer queries and review your sleep log, during the allocated hours of Monday-Friday 8am-4pm, alongside the video support calls to guide you through the process.
The fees associated with this service are €399 (2) €450 (3) €495 (4) or €550 (6).
I am detailing hereunder additional information with regard to my in-depth support service
Here is an idea of the process:
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- I request that parents complete an in-depth client history review that allows me to immerse in your story from birth onwards, gaining an understanding of your child’s stage of emotional and physical development and what is behaviourally and environmentally contributing to the reported sleep challenges.
- Based on the information gathered, I begin to design a sleep plan created specifically for your family. I provide all consultations via my personal meeting room on zoom and in-person in my Cork office by request, This meeting takes about 1 hour. During this time, I will go through all the information with you, ask questions and supply different suggestions, gradually finetuning the details, whilst honoring your child’s individuality.
- At the end of the meeting and forwarded to you in writing, by the end of that day, you will have a comprehensive, step by step written plan, that you can start to implement, under my expert guidance and professionally delivered supervision.
- Whilst I do not advocate unattended cry- strategies, I cannot guarantee that your child will not cry as they go through the process. I will not ask you to leave your child alone. All my plans are sensitively curated to minimize tears with maximum physical and emotional support offered to your child. I always encourage parents to stay with their child, recommending responsive interventions that allow the parent to be present and available, as your child learns and develops their sleep ability. Overtime, as necessary, the parent may be slowly phased out of the context of the child’s sleep, as they become a more reliable sleeper, feeling more safe and secure in the changes introduced. This is always at the rate and the pace that feels right to all within a recommended framework.
- After our initial consultation, depending on the package you select, I provide a series of (2,3, 4 or 6) 15-minute scheduled support and guidance consultations, as you make the changes and go through the process. These exchanges allow me to witness how the process is unfolding, and to adjust and tailor your plan further. This focused work responds to how you and your child experience the changes. In between calls I provide support as required in the form of emails, alongside your reported progress.
- Throughout, continued suggestions are provided so that we can reach realistic sleep goals and protect the future of your child’s sleep profile. These interactions are generally carried out over two to six weeks of the first support call.
- Embedded in all our consultations is a co-creational therapeutic style of relating with you. I am committed to helping families and have an extremely high success rate with parents that work with me, follow my suggestions and guidance and have no and/or controlled underlying medical issues. I work full-time and therefore, I reply efficiently to emails and queries that arise as you implement the plan, and I precisely honour the meeting times that we agree to, throughout the entire time. You can be assured of my attention and dedication to resolving the challenges experienced delivered with efficiency, confidence, kindness, and compassion.
- On completion of our time together, I provide a full set of written notes that assists through future sleep changes and nap transitions to age 4 plus.
- My high level of education, multi-qualifications, training, experience and on-going postgraduate research within sleep and mentoring, gathered over more than thirteen years of working one to one with parents and their children, alongside a proven and well documented track record, means that you can feel comfortable in engaging my industry -leading service, knowing that you will be emotionally held, supported, and guided sensitively, appropriately, and effectively.
- The depth of relationship established with parents and the success of the sleep work has resulted in 1000’s of parents adding to a full list of testimonials. You can read what others have to say by visiting this link https://sleepmatters.ie/testimonials-list
Contact me here to understand my next available dates and we can get you one step closer to better sleep Contact Me Here. Additional support/weeks can be added at the rate of €50 per call/week. For your records, my email address is Lucy@sleepmatters.ie and my phone number is 00353872683584.
Join 1000’s of well rested parents who have worked with me over more than 13 years, to achieve and maintain their child’s sleeping patterns in an emotionally appropriate way for your individual child and your family.
30 minute Sleep Chat with Lucy Wolfe
A Sleep Chat is a 30 minute consultation via zoom to help you gain insights and understand what changes and adjustments will elevate and improve your current sleep experience. Whilst this style of professional input with Lucy Wolfe, does not include a history review, after-support or written notes, the meeting will be recorded and it is an effective and focused way to access quality guidance from a leading sleep practitioner, dedicated to providing practical, responsive, evidence-based and practice informed solutions, with whole family wellness at the forefront.
As a result of over 13-years of in-practice experience of supporting parents, in the time together, Lucy will get a immediate understanding of the current challenges, and more importantly, offer a range of suggestions to help make the difference that you are seeking.
It is recommended to have a number of questions ready to inform the meeting, ensuring that you can get the best of our time together.
You may rebook for further guidance at any time, subject to availability.
The fee for this service is €99 and you can book this service by emailing lucy@sleepmatters.ie Contact Me
One to One Consultation with Lucy Wolfe to Understand, Learn and Implement Sleep Practices from birth to 4 months
This is a one to one, one hour online sleep consultation suitable for expectant parents and those with infants aged 0-4 months who would like insights into understanding developmentally normative sleep, alongside shaping guidance and suggestions to help provide a fertile ground for positive sleep practices at a rate and pace that you and your baby are comfortable with. Sleep work for this age range is not results based, but quality information orientated, suitable for breastfed, bottle or combination fed babies.
You will learn about:
- Normative developmental aspects of sleep
- Evidence informed predictors of sleep challenges
- Evidence-based and practice informed predictors of sleep improvement
- Safe sleep recommendations
- Emotional and physical environment for sleep
- Information to enable key decisions that help to responsively promote your child’s experience with sleep
- Age-relevant feeding and sleeping balances 0-4 months, detailing how to implement them in a way that supports your sleep aspirations without a rigid routine
- Establishing bedtime and nap routines
- Understanding the percentage of wakefulness approach
- Understanding of night time activity and feeding
- Day time sleep approach through 0-4 months
- Notes to support 0-4 months information.
- The meeting provides an opportunity to explore how your own child is experiencing sleep and to ask specific questions in this regard.
The associated fee is €199
Not included:
Individual pre-review of child’s history. One to one after-support in any format.
To make an appointment: Contact Me
Did you miss my Early Rising Masterclass (€25) or 0-4 Month Understanding sleep Webinar (€30) Purchase a recording and supporting notes by emailing lucy@sleepmatters.ie
Why work with me?
I am a leading Irish Sleep Consultant, Relationship Mentor, Author of the best-selling books: The Baby Sleep Solution and All About the Baby Sleep Solution and Mum of Four amazing young people. Many aspire to provide the level of expertise and guidance that I deliver for the fees that I charge. As you make an investment in me, I am continue to make an investment in research and professional development to ensure that you receive a gold-standard service as well as much-needed sleep.
I am a graduate of University College Cork in Parent Mentoring and Relationship Studies and hold a Masters in the Psychotherapy of Relationship Mentoring, Technological University of Shannon (TUS). I am a postgraduate researcher (PhD) with TUS and my research is an intergenerational exploration of Irish mothers’ perceptions of their children’s sleep with a view to understanding how we may support parents in their sleep experiences in the future.
I have completed extensive training and education in Ireland, UK, and USA, together with continuous professional development, staying informed and engaged with recent research and development in the field of psychoanalytic and psychodynamic theories, conscious parenting, childhood development and sleep. I have been in practice, actively working with parents for over thirteen years.
Parents decide to work with me for many reasons. Here are few:
Your child’s sleep profile is a challenge
Despite your best efforts you still experience a number of challenges such as sleep resistance, frequent night waking, long wake times over-night, excessive upset, short naps, and early rising, for example. You may also have feeding, weaning, and behavioral concerns that are interrelated.
You don’t know where to start
As your child’s sleep is multi-dimensional and entirely unique, general recommendations may not always apply and conflicting information and emotions may undermine your efforts. You may begin to second guess yourself too. This can mean starting to make changes feels too overwhelming and your confidence may be lower as a result of being tired, and emotionally worn out.
Bespoke guidance and ongoing support
Many parents intellectually know what changes are required or may help, but benefit from the level of support, mentoring, guidance, insight and accountability the process of working with an experienced sleep specialist provides for. When delivered in a compassionate, non-judgmental setting; parents own intuition, and understanding has an opportunity to flourish, as we nourish your being and that of your child.
Tried sleep training before and it was unsuccessful
It is hard to stay predictable and on track when you are doing this solo; working with a professional enables you to stay on track when everything feels off track. The process helps you to understand where to start, what feels right for you and most importantly what helps to promote better sleep, appetite, mood and behavior-for all family members and to future-proof your child’s sleep experience too.
Expectations matter
We know that psychologically having a plan, a clear pathway and range of solutions presented to you, as well as being accompanied, accountable and supported helps individuals to address hard challenges, lean on the professional, exchange thoughts, feelings and emotions, and in this holding of space, become engaged, motivated and empowered to make and maintain changes that support your goals.
Co-Creational collaboration
Working WITH a family is a big part of the solution. Collaborating together, combining your understanding and aspirations, together with all the parties to the sleep equation can be factored in, and unique dynamics can be addressed; decisions can be encouraged in a supportive culture that means everyone (Mum, Dad, Co-Parent, Baby, Sibling, Childminder) feels seen, heard and belonging-and that level of safety continues to promote your sleep story and journey.
I am an industry-leader. I have been in practice for over 13 years and developed the stay-and-support approach. This means that I know more about this approach, than any other practitioner who also propose they use this method. Furthermore, I have been in a position to witness, resolve and learn from each family that has engaged with me, meaning that the depth of knowledge and experience, coupled with ongoing training, education, research and expertise are applied to your sleep plan and process that allows your goals to emerge in a collaborative, co-creational and effective way. What are you waiting for?? You are literally weeks away from better sleep once you send the email.
