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Sleep Solutions
5 months - 5 years

Baby & Toddler Sleep Help That Protects Healthy Attachment—Without Sleep Training Extremes

Most sleep advice focuses on techniques. But when your child is struggling in the middle of the night, it rarely feels like a technique issue.

It feels like: We are all exhausted and need to get back to sleep NOW!

This work begins in a deeper place — in the nervous system, where safety and sleep are built together.

You don’t have to choose between connection and autonomy.
You can build both gently and steadily at the same time.

See what this can look like for your family

Securely Attached Autonomy™

A Sleep Approach That Protects Attachment While Building Healthy Separation

This isn’t sleep training. It’s nervous system guidance.

We don’t rush development—we support it by helping you stay regulated enough to lead it.

Child sleep is not a behavior to fix—it’s a developmental process to support. We follow your child’s developmental stage, authentic needs, capacity, and cues. But development alone isn’t enough.

Your child’s ability to settle and sleep is shaped and guided by the state of the parental nervous system.

When you are calm, present, and regulated:

  • your child feels safe
  • separation becomes tolerable
  • your child self-settles
  • sleep becomes possible

This is what we’re building toward: securely attached autonomya child who can separate, settle, and sleep with confidence.

You are your child’s leader. My role is to help you step into that with clarity and confidence.

I’ll support you when you need it, but my goal is to coach you to coach yourself—because when you feel grounded, capable, and attuned, your child feels it too.

You don’t need to do more.
You’ll feel clearer, calmer, and more connected every step of the way.

About Eileen

Securely Attached Autonomy™

A Sleep Approach That Protects Attachment While Building Independence

You are your child’s leader. My role is to help you step into that clarity while preparing you for every stage of the first four years.

I’ll support you when you need it, but my goal is to guide you so well that you trust yourself fully. I coach you to coach yourself—because when you feel grounded, capable, and attuned, your child feels it too.

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Sleep is NOT a Luxury... it is a Necessity

Helping Your Child Sleep—Without Ignoring Their Needs

My method: Co-Regulation in Motion®

  • You remain a calm, responsive presence while your child learns a new skill.
  • You honor their feelings—even as you allow space for them to practice falling asleep.
  • Your child doesn’t learn alone. They learn with you, until they can do it themselves.
  • I create customized sleep solutions with a proven long-term track record—always grounded in compassion and co-regulation.

This isn’t about eliminating tears.
It’s about staying steady through them.

This isn’t about controlling your child or the cry.
It’s about leading with calm, clear connection.

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Mom Soothing Baby

Sleep is NOT a Luxury... it is a Necessity

How to Help Your Child Sleep—Without Ignoring Their Needs

My method: Co-Regulation in Motion®

  • You remain a calm, responsive presence while your child learns a new skill.
  • You support their feelings—even as you allow space for them to do the work of falling asleep.
  • Your child doesn’t learn alone. They learn with you, until they can do it themselves.

I’ve developed customized sleep solutions with a proven long-term track record—always grounded in compassion and co-regulation.

This isn’t about eliminating tears.
It’s about staying steady through them.

This isn’t about controlling your child or the cry.
It’s about leading with calm, clear, and consistent connection.

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The 3-Cs of My Solutions: Compassion, Co-Regulation, and Consistency

Grounded in the RIE® approach, my method supports your child’s natural development while teaching essential sleep skills.

The result is extraordinary: your child sleeps through the night, and you’ve guided the learning of a skill that will support lifelong well-being.

Once the entire family can sleep through the night, everyone thrives.

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Sleep Packages

Birth – 5 years

There are advantages and challenges to sleep learning at every stage. I can help you navigate this dynamic stage of child development. Your child can feel safe, secure, and supported while learning any new skill, including sleep. It is never too late to establish healthy sleep habits.

The Toddler Toolkit

The Wonderful 2’s, 3’s and 4’s

However, we have all heard another adjective to describe this stage, right? Underneath most troubling behavior, there is a need longing for expression. And the underlying needs often require patience, empathy, and co-regulation.  Learn tools and strategies that lay the foundation for resilience and emotional flexibility.

Potty Learning

Your Toddler’s Transition to the Toilet

The transition from diapers to potty is a delicate stage, and traditional “training” methods can be met with the rising “no” of toddlerhood. My process takes the power struggle out of potty learning and can reverse any resistance you may be experiencing from other methods you may have already tried.

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What Other Parents Are Saying

Working with Eileen was one of the best decisions we have made as parents.

-Mary and Greg Baerg, Altadena, CA

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2016-09-05T05:45:30+00:00

-Mary and Greg Baerg, Altadena, CA

Working with Eileen was one of the best decisions we have made as parents.

Thank you so much Eileen. The sleep plan worked so well we couldn’t believe it.

-Paloma Posford, Los Angeles, CA

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2016-09-05T05:46:43+00:00

-Paloma Posford, Los Angeles, CA

Thank you so much Eileen. The sleep plan worked so well we couldn’t believe it.

Eileen is the Super-Nanny of sleep!

-Ryan Rudolph, Boulder, CO

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2016-09-05T05:45:48+00:00

-Ryan Rudolph, Boulder, CO

Eileen is the Super-Nanny of sleep!

Eileen you are a miracle worker!

-Leonie van de Belt, Netherlands

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2016-09-05T05:47:12+00:00

-Leonie van de Belt, Netherlands

Eileen you are a miracle worker!

Eileen gave us our sanity back. Which is exactly what she promised when I asked her…what am I getting for my money?

-Josh Harland, New York, NY

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2016-09-05T05:46:28+00:00

-Josh Harland, New York, NY

Eileen gave us our sanity back. Which is exactly what she promised when I asked her…what am I getting for my money?

For parents of multiples Eileen’s support is a MUST!

-Kathleen and Aaron Gregg, Brooklyn N.Y.

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2016-09-05T05:46:10+00:00

-Kathleen and Aaron Gregg, Brooklyn N.Y.

For parents of multiples Eileen’s support is a MUST!

Wow the first night my wife and I were up all night waiting for all hell to break loose. Nothing! A peep at 2:00 a.m. and Leo slept till 7:00. We are thrilled. I am convinced it is how Eileen taught us to prepare Leo…he understood…and it was truly no big deal.

-Andrew Mertz, Seattle, Washington

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2016-09-05T05:46:56+00:00

-Andrew Mertz, Seattle, Washington

Wow the first night my wife and I were up all night waiting for all hell to break loose. Nothing! A peep at 2:00 a.m. and Leo slept till 7:00. We are thrilled. I am convinced it is how Eileen taught us to prepare Leo…he understood…and it was truly no big deal.
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