Claudine Gillard

My husband and I moved from the UK to Qatar in March 2013 and in November 2014, I became a mum to my amazing son, Joseph. Being a mum was extremely rewarding, however, in my case, there was a price to pay and that was sleep deprivation.

For the first two and a half years of my son’s life none of us had a good night’s sleep. Due to the lack of sleep I was often very emotional, and sometimes irrational. Joseph was a happy little boy and at the time it seemed unaffected by his nightly sleep disturbances. I could not think straight, I could not see straight, and it got to the point where I just could not take it anymore.

I will openly admit that I had some very dark moments whilst I was sleep deprived. In addition, when Joseph was 11 months old, I was diagnosed with PTSD as a result of an extremely unpleasant birth experience.

I felt at my wits’ end.

In March 2017 we made the decision to sleep train Joseph. I searched online for a sleep consultant in Abu Dhabi, where we lived at the time, but I had no results. We ended up hiring a wonderful lady that helped us, from Dubai.

Joseph was sleeping well within a matter of days of starting the sleep training and we couldn't believe the change this made to our lives. I realised that I wanted to bring the gift of sleep to everyone I could! I wanted to create a change and help other struggling parents. Especially those in Abu Dhabi who did not have access to sleep consultants in their city.

I went to Florida in April 2017 and completed my training to become a Sleep Sense™ Consultant, under the watchful eye of the creator of the program, Dana Obleman. You can learn more about the Sleep Sense™ method here.

Since then, I have helped over 650 now families to achieve their goals - namely consistently good nights’ sleep! I specialise in working with people of all ages, from newborn to school-age children to adult, both online globally, and in person throughout Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

Bringing this gift to people around the world is my calling and the opportunity to help others brings me pure joy. I’ve well and truly ‘been there’. First as a sleep deprived parent and, later, as a client of the adult sleep course, that I now teach.

Putting my personal experience to great use, as well as developing my professional expertise having worked with so many families, I can empower parents to successfully and gently sleep train their little ones.

My baby and child sleep training has now evolved to cover baby, toddler, pre-schooler, school age children, adolescent/teenager and adult sleep.