What Is A Sleep Coach?

Have you heard of the recent phenomenon of a sleep coach? Whether for you or your child, you may want to learn more about this ideal sleep expert and how they can help you. Depending on what your sleep trouble is there are many different types of sleep coaches who can help. Find out all about how a rest or sleep coach can change your life.

Different Types of Sleep Coaches:

Whether you are looking to get to better sleep, battle insomnia, help your children’s sleeping habits, snore less, or learn how to nurse your newborn baby to sleep, there is a sleep coach that can help you achieve these goals and many more. Below we will dive into the different types of sleep coaches and how they could potentially help you get the sleep you desire.

Sleep Coaches For New Parents & Newborns 

Bringing home a new baby is known for being a time full of sleepless nights. Part of this is due to the fact that newborns need to be fed and changed periodically throughout the night. However, there is a point in which your baby is going to be able to sleep through the night. A sleep coach can help you navigate the sometimes complicated waters of sleeping and caring for a newborn.

The first several month to years of your babies like change rapidly, their needs and habits are going to change just as quickly. A Sleep Coach can help you understand these changes and help you determine what you need to do in order to help your baby best while getting a good amount of sleep for yourself as well.

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Sleep Coaches For Insomnia

This is one of the most popular types of sleep coaches. Which is a Sleep Coach or Sleep Consultant that specializes in helping clients with insomnia. Not being able to fall or stay asleep throughout an entire night can be caused by a multitude of different things. Health, medications, depression, even just stress and anxiety.

Unfortunately, not sleeping on it’s own can be stressful and cause anxiety, which can easily turn a little problem into a much larger issue.

Sleep coaches can help you determine the cause of your insomnia, and give you advice on how you can get to sleep and stay asleep with tips and tools. All without the help of prescription sleep aids. Or they can even help you eventually get off of any sleeping pills you are currently taking. Cool!

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Children’s Sleep Consultants

Kids can struggle with sleep as well. From nightmares, night terrors, trouble sleeping by themselves, bed wetting, trouble napping to night sweats there are many different struggles that kids can have with getting a good amount of rest. Many of these struggles are resolved differently for children then they are for adults.

Sometimes parents just need a helping hand to figure out what they can do for their kids. Sleep coaches for children can work with kids and their parents learn how to help get the child to sleep better throughout the night. There are many different exercises, diet and habit changes, along with pro parenting tips that can all work together. Sleep coaches are a great resource for parents with kids struggling with sleep.

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Sleep Coaches For Sleep Apnea

Snoring and sleep apnea are no fun for anyone. It can range for disruptive to your sleep (and others) to down right frightening. Snoring is loud and can be obnoxious to sleep partners. It can also cause headaches and sore throats.

While sleep apnea can cause you to stop breathing for extended moments. This is not only frightening, but it can also ruin your sleep. Then there are sleeping with sleep apnea machines which can be clunky, uncomfortable and also difficult to sleep with.

Sleep coaches can help you figure out what you need to ask your doctor, as well as help you to manage symptoms and get better sleep. They can even help you to sleep better with a sleep apnea machine.

Virtual Sleep Therapists:

Don’t want to meet with anyone in person? No problem. There are plenty of sleep coaches that work online. Whether you are wanting to pay for video chat meetings, or you want to watch free videos online.

There are many different ways that you can interact and benefit from a sleep therapist or coach online without having to meet with anyone in person as well. There are even several apps that can hold the place of a live person to help you get better sleep too.

With technology so readily available you can still find the benefits of a sleep coach without the direct interaction.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia

A common tool used by sleep coaches in something commonly referred to as CBT-I, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia is a therapy used to treat insomnia sufferers without use of prescription sleep aids. CBT focuses on changing behaviors and adjusting habits in order to create change in your sleep.

CBT Can Help With…

• Sleep Confidence
• Get Rid Of Sleep Anxiety
• Sleep Without Help Of Medications

Are You Ready For A Sleep Coach?

There are many different versions of sleep coaches that specialize in different areas, but at the end of the day they all do the same thing. Which is work with the client to help improve the health and quality of their sleep. Whether you just brought home a new baby or you’re struggling with insomnia, getting the help and advice from a professional can give you tools and tips on how you can get the sleep you need.

Just like a therapist, not every therapist works for every client. So if you really want the help and your first sleep coach isn’t a good fit for you, do some research and look for a different sleep coach that may be a better fit for you.