What is Integrated Family Sleep™
Integrated Family Sleep™ is an inclusive, non-judgemental, family-centred approach to supporting both children's and parents' sleep that recognises individuality and parents' own expertise and resourcefulness. Developed by Patricia Flynn based on her decades of clinical experience, her peer-reviewed research and, most importantly, the perspectives and experiences of international parents with a view to achieving lasting and meaningful outcomes.
First Step: Book a Free 15min Call
The first step to getting sleep support is booking a free introductory, no-obligation zoom call to allow us to explore whether the Integrated Family Sleep™ approach fits your family's current needs.
Next: Book your First Integrated Family Sleep™ Consultation
This first consultation includes in-depth and holistic discussion and evaluation of your child(ren)'s and family sleep patterns and issues, identification of your priorities, and individualised goal setting and sleep planning. The first steps of your personalised Integrated Family Sleep™ Plan will be formulated with you during this first session. Your Integrated Family Sleep™ Plan is based on so much more than just your child's age and will draw from a wide range of sleep support strategies based on your family's needs, strengths, and experiences.
On-going Support: Check-in calls
Following your first Integrated Family Sleep™ consultation, you have the option to avail of up to two 15min check-in calls to ask any questions that arise, problem-solve, or report success within the subsequent two weeks. These short check-ins are included in the cost of your first consultation.
On-going Support: Follow-up Consultations
In order to formulate the next steps in your Integrated Family Sleep™ plan, you might wish to schedule a 30min a follow-up consultation. These follow-up consultations can be used
- to discuss how to build on or review previous sleep plans,
- to discuss sleep during times of change within the family,
- to explore the sleep of parents and/or children who have additional needs
- to discuss multiple siblings' sleep,
- to further support parent sleep, or
- to review the sleep plan when your child's sleep needs change as they age
...or to address any other family support needs that arise.
Sleep Support Groups
Sometimes the best support can be hearing from other parents in similar circumstances that you are not alone and take the opportunity to share questions, solutions, and access to up-to-date research and experience in a relaxed and safe shared space.
Groups include:
- parents of babies under 6 months,
- parents of toddlers,
- parents of babies with colic, reflux etc.
- parents of multiples, and
- parents managing sibling sleep.