Welcome to The Sleep Space Training Academy
The Sleep Space Training Academy was created to train knowledgeable, confident and compassionate sleep consultants who can make a genuine difference to families, while building a rewarding career that works around their own lives.
Our approach goes beyond simply teaching sleep routines or following a set method. Children’s sleep is individual, and the families we support are individual too.
That’s why our training is rooted in understanding the science of sleep, child development and safe sleep, alongside the practical skills needed to assess each family’s circumstances and provide responsive, evidence-informed support.
We want our graduates to leave the academy understanding not only what they might recommend to a family, but why, giving them the confidence to think critically, adapt their approach and support families as individuals.
Great sleep support isn’t about memorising a method. It’s about understanding sleep, understanding families and having the confidence to bring the two together.
The SSTA Ethos
Evidence-Informed
Training grounded in sleep science, child development and current guidance, giving you the knowledge to understand not just what works, but why.
Responsive & Compassionate
Children and families are individuals. We teach a responsive approach to sleep support that respects each child’s needs, their family and their circumstances.
Whole-Family Approach
Sleep doesn’t exist in isolation. We consider the child, their development, environment, routines and the wellbeing of the whole family.
Confidence, Not Scripts
We don’t want our graduates relying on a script. We teach you how to assess, problem-solve and adapt your knowledge so you can confidently support the family in front of you.
Because becoming a great sleep consultant isn’t about having one answer for every family. It’s about having the knowledge and confidence to find the right answer for the family in front of you.
A CAREER THAT FITS YOUR LIFE
Could this be the career for you?
Maybe you’re looking for a completely new direction. Perhaps you’ve had children and realised that the career you had before no longer fits the life you want now.
Maybe you already work with babies, children or families and want to expand your knowledge, your services and the ways you can support them.
Or perhaps you’ve simply reached a point where you’re ready to build something of your own, something rewarding, flexible and genuinely meaningful.
A career as a sleep consultant can give you the opportunity to use your knowledge to make a real difference to families, while creating a business that can grow and adapt around your own life.
You don’t need to have all the answers before you begin. That’s what the training is for
This course could be for you if you:
✓ Want a flexible career that can work around family life
✓ Are passionate about supporting babies, children and parents
✓ Already work with families and want to expand your services
✓ Want to build your own sleep consultancy
✓ Are looking for meaningful work with the potential to grow
PROFESSIONAL SLEEP CONSULTANT TRAINING
Our comprehensive Sleep Consultant Training programme has been created to give you the knowledge, practical skills and confidence to support families with children’s sleep from birth through to five years.
You’ll learn the science behind sleep, how sleep develops and changes throughout early childhood, and how to assess sleep challenges from a whole-family perspective.
But knowledge alone doesn’t make a great sleep consultant.
Throughout your training, you’ll also learn how to take that knowledge and apply it to real families, asking the right questions, identifying what may be contributing to a sleep challenge and creating individualised, responsive recommendations that families can realistically implement.
The aim isn’t for you to graduate knowing one sleep method.
It’s for you to graduate knowing how to think like a sleep consultant.
What you’ll learn
Your training takes you through the foundations of infant and childhood sleep before developing the practical skills you’ll need to work confidently with families.
THE SCIENCE
Understanding Sleep
You’ll explore the foundations that allow you to understand why children sleep the way they do, including:
✓ Sleep science and sleep biology
✓ Sleep cycles and sleep architecture
✓ Circadian rhythms and sleep pressure
✓ Sleep needs from birth to five
✓ Infant and childhood development
✓ Safe sleep
✓ The relationship between feeding and sleep
THE PRACTICE
Supporting Families
Learn how to take your knowledge and apply it to the individual child and family in front of you, including:
✓ Understanding common sleep challenges
✓ Naps, bedtime and night waking
✓ Sleep environments and routines
✓ Sleep associations
✓ Toddler and preschool sleep
✓ Individual differences and family circumstances
✓ Responsive approaches to sleep support
THE CONSULTANT
Becoming a Sleep Consultant
Develop the professional skills needed to confidently work with families and begin building your own practice, including:
✓ Conducting effective consultations
✓ Assessing a family’s sleep situation
✓ Asking the right questions
✓ Creating individualised sleep plans
✓ Communicating recommendations confidently
✓ Professional boundaries and ethical practice
✓ Developing your sleep consultancy business
You won’t leave SSTA with a script to follow. You’ll leave understanding how to assess, interpret and respond to the family in front of you.
Training designed around real life
We know that many people considering a new career are already balancing work, children, family and everything else life brings.
That’s why SSTA training is designed to be flexible.
The course is self-led, allowing you to work through your training at a pace that fits around your existing commitments, while still providing the structure and assessment needed to develop your knowledge and professional confidence.
SELF-PACED
Work through the training around your existing commitments and study at a pace that works for you
MULTI-MODAL LEARNING
Learn through a combination of written content, video, activities and practical application rather than one single learning format.
KNOWLEDGE CHECKS
Questions and activities throughout the programme help you consolidate your learning and identify areas to revisit.
PORTFOLIO & ASSESSMENT
Build and demonstrate your knowledge throughout the programme, applying what you’ve learned to practical scenarios and assessments.
MEET YOUR TRAINER
Hi, I’m Chris
Founder of The Sleep Space Training Academy and The Little Cherry Tree Company
My career has always centred around supporting children and families.
Before becoming a sleep consultant, I spent almost a decade working within the NHS, gaining experience supporting families through some incredibly important and sometimes challenging stages of their lives.
I later took that experience into my own business, The Little Cherry Tree Company, and for almost a decade I have worked directly with families experiencing sleep challenges, from the everyday struggles that leave parents exhausted to more complex situations where there is rarely one simple answer.
Over the years, my work has grown beyond one-to-one sleep support. I have delivered training to professionals, worked alongside Family Hubs and supported services working directly with parents and children.
And it is those years of real-world experience that ultimately led me to create The Sleep Space Training Academy.
I wanted to create the kind of training I believe sleep consultants need: not simply information to memorise or a particular method to follow, but the knowledge to understand sleep, the skills to assess the whole family and the confidence to make informed professional decisions.
Because when you’re sitting opposite a real parent who is exhausted and asking you for help, families don’t always fit neatly into a textbook.
I want you to finish your training feeling ready for that conversation.
Why I created SSTA
Becoming a sleep consultant didn’t just give me a career I love. It gave me the opportunity to build a business around my life and my family, rather than constantly trying to fit my life around my work.
That doesn’t mean running a business is always easy — it isn’t. But it has given me flexibility, independence and the opportunity to build something of my own while doing work that genuinely matters to me.
I created SSTA because I want other people to have the opportunity to do the same.
Whether you’re starting again after having children, looking for more flexibility, adding sleep support to an existing career or simply ready for something new, I want to give you both the professional knowledge and the practical foundations to take that next step with confidence.
FROM ENROLMENT TO GRADUATION
Your Journey with SSTA
From your first lesson to completing your training, SSTA is designed to take you step by step from learning the foundations of children’s sleep to developing the confidence and practical skills to work with families.
Enrol & Get Started
Receive access to your training and everything you need to begin your journey with The Sleep Space Training Academy.
Learn at Your Own Pace
Work through the programme around your existing commitments, building your knowledge from the foundations of sleep through to more complex family support.
Put Your Learning Into Practice
Complete activities, knowledge checks and practical scenarios that help you move from simply learning information to applying it as a sleep consultant.
Build Your Portfolio
Bring together your learning and demonstrate your understanding through coursework, practical application and your training portfolio.
Complete Your Training
Successfully complete the required elements of your programme and demonstrate the knowledge and skills expected of an SSTA-trained sleep consultant.
Begin Your Next Chapter
Take the knowledge, skills and confidence you’ve developed and start taking the next steps towards building your own sleep consultancy or adding sleep support to the work you already do.
More than just a course
WHATS INCLUDED
Your SSTA training has been designed to give you more than knowledge about children’s sleep. You’ll receive the learning, practical resources and professional foundations you need to develop your skills and begin taking your next steps as a sleep consultant.
Complete Birth-to-Five Training
Comprehensive training covering infant and childhood sleep from birth through to five years, taking you from the foundations of sleep science through to confidently supporting families with a wide range of sleep challenges.
Flexible Online Learning
Access your training online and work through the programme at your own pace, allowing you to fit your learning around work, children and existing commitments.
Training Workbook & Resources
Supporting materials, activities and resources to help you consolidate your learning, make notes and build a bank of information you can refer back to throughout your training.
Practical Learning & Portfolio
Knowledge checks, activities, case-based learning and portfolio work help you apply what you’ve learned and develop the practical thinking skills you’ll need when working with real families.
Business Foundations
Learn the practical foundations of turning your training into a business, from developing your services and pricing to attracting clients, marketing yourself professionally and beginning to build a sleep consultancy that works around your life.
Support Beyond the Lessons
Your learning doesn’t have to stop when you finish a chapter. SSTA has been designed to help you develop as a practitioner, with guidance and opportunities to continue building your confidence as you progress through your training.
Learn the knowledge
Understand the science, development and principles behind children’s sleep.
Learn the practice
Develop the skills to assess families, identify challenges and create individualised recommendations.
Learn the business
Understand how to turn your training into a service people will pay for and begin building a business around your life.
What could a sleep consultancy look like financially?
Building a sleep consultancy can look different for everyone.
Some consultants choose to work with a small number of families each week around their children or another job. Others build a full-time consultancy, while some combine one-to-one support with workshops, courses, group programmes.
How much you earn will depend on your pricing, the number of clients you work with, the services you offer and the time you choose to put into your business.
But it can be helpful to see what the numbers might look like.
**Illustrative examples**
Starting Small
2 clients per week
£250 × 2 clients × 4 weeks
£2,000 monthly revenue
An example of building a consultancy gradually around existing work or family commitments.
Growing Your Business
4 clients per week
£250 × 4 clients × 4 weeks
£4,000 monthly revenue
Working with approximately four families each week while continuing to build your reputation and client base.
An Established Caseload
6 clients per week
£250 × 6 clients × 4 weeks
£6,000 monthly revenue
An example of a more established one-to-one consultancy.
The figures above are illustrative examples of potential business revenue and are not earnings guarantees. Actual revenue and profit will vary depending on pricing, client numbers, business costs, demand, marketing and other individual circumstances.
Frequently Asked Questions
No. The training is designed to take you from the foundations of infant and childhood sleep through to developing the knowledge and practical skills needed to support families.
You may already work with babies, children or families, but previous professional experience within sleep support isn’t required.
Yes. The course is delivered online and is self-led, giving you the flexibility to complete your training from home and fit your learning around work, family and other commitments.
**There are some online video calls as part of your assessment.
The course is self-paced, so the time it takes to complete will depend on how much time you choose to dedicate to your training each week.
You’ll be able to work through the programme around your existing commitments rather than having to attend lessons at fixed times.
Absolutely. Flexibility is at the heart of SSTA.
The course has been designed with real life in mind, allowing you to work through your training at times that suit you rather than having to reorganise your life around fixed classes.
Whether you’re studying around children, employment or an existing business, you can progress through the course at a pace that works for you.
The SSTA Sleep Consultant Training programme covers children’s sleep from birth through to five years, helping you understand how sleep develops and changes throughout infancy, toddlerhood and the preschool years.
Yes. Becoming a sleep consultant isn’t only about understanding sleep.
Your training includes business foundations to help you understand how to begin turning your new skills into a professional service, including considerations around services, pricing, marketing and attracting clients.
Additional business resources and support may also be available for students who want further help developing their consultancy.
Yes. We understand that professional training is an investment, so payment options are available to help make the cost of training more manageable.
Contact us for current course fees and payment plan options.
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT TRAINING WITH SST
Whether you’re considering a completely new career, looking for greater flexibility around your family or hoping to add sleep support to the work you already do, we’d love to tell you more about training with The Sleep Space Training Academy.
Complete the form below to register your interest and receive more information about the course, upcoming enrolment opportunities and payment options.
Your next chapter could start here.