Pediatric Sleep Consultant Certification (Online)
Become a Certified Sleep Consultant
& Start a Profitable Sleep Consulting Business
If you're searching for a pediatric sleep consultant certification or wondering how to become a sleep consultant, you're in the right place.
HERE'S HOW IT WORKS →What Is a Pediatric Sleep Consultant?
A pediatric sleep consultant is a trained professional who helps families improve their child’s sleep using evidence-based strategies.
Sleep consultants typically:
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Support babies, toddlers, and young children
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Create customized sleep plans
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Guide parents through solutions to behavioral sleep challenges (not medical)
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Address regressions, bedtime battles, night wakings, early rising, nap troubles and more
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Offer virtual or in-home services
Many sleep consultants work remotely, allowing them to run their business from home with flexible hours. Some go into their client's homes.
Demand for qualified sleep consultants continues to grow as families seek support that is personalized, practical, and compassionate.
Here is an example of my current core offer and sales page for In Home Sleep Consulting in Charleston, SC. Here is an example of my virtual offers that I sold for over 5 years. This can give you an idea of what you could sell.
How to Become a Sleep Consultant
If you’re wondering how to become a certified sleep consultant, here are the essential steps:
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Complete a pediatric sleep consultant certification program
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Learn sleep science and child development
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Develop coaching skills and client protocols
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Create service packages and pricing
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Start marketing your sleep consulting business and working with families
This certification program walks you through the first three steps: becoming fully trained and confident as a pediatric sleep consultant.
If your goal is to start a sleep consulting business, this is where it begins. You also have the option to take our Business Accelerator Course to teach you exactly how to execute steps 4 and 5 or work with Shannon Buhera as a 1:1 Sleep & Business Mentor.
This online sleep consultant certification program teaches you:
- How to confidently coach families with children newborn through age 8
- How to create customized sleep plans
- How to support families virtually or in person
- How to start and grow a sleep consulting business
Whether you're a stay-at-home mom, teacher, nurse, or entrepreneur, this program gives you the training and confidence to build meaningful, flexible income helping families sleep better.
Pediatric Sleep Consultant Certification
This is a comprehensive online sleep consultant training program designed to prepare you to work with families confidently and professionally.
What You’ll Learn
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Sleep science foundations
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Multiple approaches to Newborn Sleep
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Toddler, preschool, and big kid sleep challenges and solutions
- Holistic and gentle sleep training methods
- Traditional sleep training methods
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Bedtime routines and nap transitions
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Regressions and developmental changes
- Safe Night Weaning
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Creating customized sleep plans
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Coaching and communication skills
Program Details
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Fully online and self-paced
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Structured video modules [12 hours of training]
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Downloadable guides, tools, and templates
- Case Studies including video of supporting real families
- Lesson from Triple-Board-Certified Sleep Medicine Physician, Dr. Funke
Afolabi-Brown - Certification upon completion of 2 Exams + 3 families successfully supported
- Led by Shannon Buhera, founder of Nights & Naps with 6 years of Sleep Consulting experience both virtual and in-home with newborn through 8 year olds (scroll down for her full bio). She's worked with over 200 families and read over 20 books on children's sleep to help develop this program... so that you don't have to. Plus she has over 100k followers across social media platforms and has developed critical marketing and sales skills that she teaches inside her Business Accelerator so that all Sleep Consultants can actually sell their services. She teaches what has worked (and not) for her and her students plus what she learned from the over $12,000 she's spent on business coaches and courses... so that you don't have to.
This program is ideal if you want to:
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Become a certified sleep consultant
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Add sleep consulting to an existing business
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Add Children's Sleep Expert to your resume
- Build a flexible work-from-home career
- Lay the foundation for a sleep consulting business
Sleep Consultant Certification
$1250
Includes:
- Newborn - 8 Years
- 12 Hours of Classes
- 2 Books mailed to you
- Printable Guides & Workbooks
- Self-paced
- Evidence-based
- Whole-Child focused
- Confidently coach families, write Sleep Plans, provide Virtual or In-Home services
"The program
provided practical, compassionate tools that I confidently use to support the families I work with every day."
"Completing my sleep training certification with Shannon's School of Pediatric Sleep was a truly transformative experience and the best choice of programs for me. I still find myself returning to the resources to ensure I’m delivering the highest quality care possible."
How to Start a Sleep Consulting Business
One of the most common questions women ask is:
“How do I actually start a sleep consulting business after certification?”
Here’s what that typically involves:
Defining your ideal client (specific age, problem, parent, or location)
- Creating clear service options (less is more)
- Setting confident pricing
- Attracting your first 3–5 clients
- Building a simple website or social presence
- Delivering consistent, high-quality results
This certification program is designed to leave you confident in delivering those high-quality results so that families want to tell all their friends about you and you have career fulfillment!
Many new sleep consultants struggle because they lack business structure.
That’s why I recommend taking The Business Accelerator Course during or right after certification.
A high-level Mentorship option is available after certification for those who want structured support building and scaling their sleep consulting business.
How Much Do Sleep Consultants Make?
Income varies based on:
- Pricing
- Location
- Niche focus
- Marketing strategy
- Business model (virtual vs in-home)
- Part-time vs Full-time
Many sleep consultants charge between $500–$1,500 per client depending on package structure and level of support.
Because sleep consulting is typically a low-overhead service business, profit margins can be strong once systems are in place.
The key is not just certification — but implementation, positioning, and consistency.
To help you learn more about sales, revenue, and income as a Sleep Consultant, I created this short video for you below!
Do You Need a Medical Background to Become a Sleep Consultant?
No.
Many successful sleep consultants are:
- Nannies
- Teachers
- Therapists
- Stay-at-home moms
- Entrepreneurs
While a background in child development or nursing can be helpful, it is not required.
In fact, it's important for Sleep Consultants to clearly articulate to their clients that they are not medical professionals.
This certification program does include the basics of medical sleep problems in children but not so that we can diagnose or treat, but so that we can look for flags to refer clients to medical professionals. This includes a lesson from Dr. Funke Afolabi-Brown, triple board certified Sleep Medicine Physician, on Pediatric Sleep Disorders.
How Long Does It Take to Become a Certified Sleep Consultant?
Because this is a self-paced online sleep consultant certification, you can move through the material based on your schedule.
Some students complete certification in as little as two months, others take much longer.
You’ll have unlimited access to structured modules that guide you step-by-step through becoming certified. The lessons are about 12 hours total plus there are two optional Case Studies that have recordings of Shannon working with real families.
In addition to the lessons, you'll need to spend time reading 2 Children's Sleep Books. These are required and will be mailed to you after enrollment.
Last, you'll need to spend time taking two Exams and working with three families successfully to complete your certification (these can be friends or relatives, pro-bono, or paid clients). If you have a hard time finding these first 3 clients, Shannon can help match you with families.
Your Next Step
If you’ve been researching:
- How to become a sleep consultant
- How to start a sleep consulting business
- The best pediatric sleep consultant certification
This is your starting point.
You can continue researching and contemplating for months. You'll find most other programs as comprehensive as this one are at least $3000.
Or you can get certified and begin building now so that in just 2-3 months you are ready to actually launch a small business!
Pediatric Sleep Consultant Certification – $1250
Enroll Now
Hey, I'm Shannon Buhera.
Pediatric Sleep Consultant, Educator, and Business Mentor.
Over the past six years, I’ve helped more than 200 families transform sleep in their homes. And over the past three years, I’ve helped 40+ sleep consultants start and grow their own successful sleep consulting businesses.
I earned my degree in Elementary & Special Education and spent eight years teaching elementary school. I’ve always been deeply passionate about child development, learning science, and supporting families.
During my daughter’s four-month sleep regression, I was the exhausted mom googling, “When does a baby start sleeping through the night?” That season sent me deep into sleep science, research, and real-world application — not just to help my own child, but to understand how to truly support families long-term.
What started as a personal journey quickly became a professional calling.
Today, I not only work directly with families virtually and in their homes, but I train and mentor those who want to become certified pediatric sleep consultants and build meaningful, flexible businesses of their own.
My work now sits at the intersection of:
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Evidence-based sleep education
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Child development expertise
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Practical implementation
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And sustainable business strategy
I live on Johns Island, South Carolina with my husband and our two children. When I’m not teaching or mentoring, you’ll usually find me working from a local coffee shop, playing on the beach with my kids, or volunteering at my kid's school.
Supporting families through sleep struggles changed my life.
Helping women build businesses doing the same has multiplied that impact.
And I’d be honored to help you do it too.
Read what my Sleep Consulting clients have been saying about my business on Google or keep scrolling to read what my students have been saying about this program!
"I feel totally confident in my sleep knowledge and have a business that is ready to go."
"Shannon’s course is absolutely incredible! I not only came away with invaluable information that will make me an effective sleep consultant but also with all the business information to really set myself up for success from the get-go.
I love how the lessons are organized so you can already work on setting up your business as you are learning the ins and outs of sleep! Working with Shannon is a dream and I couldn’t recommend her course more!"
- Jennifer, SPSE Grad of Certification & Business Accelerator Course
You Will learn to work with:
newborns
At 3-18 months, I help babies learn to fall asleep independently without needing to be nursed, rocked, or held. Together, we make bedtime routines smoother, stretch out nighttime sleep, reduce or eliminate night feeds, and create longer, more consistent crib naps—so both you and your baby get the rest you need.
babies
At 3-18 months, you can help babies learn to fall asleep independently without needing to be nursed, rocked, or held. You can make bedtime routines smoother, stretch out nighttime sleep, reduce or eliminate night feeds, and create longer, more consistent crib naps—so both baby and caregiver gets the rest they need.
toddlers
At 1.5 - 3 years, you can help toddlers end bedtime battles and feel secure sleeping in their own room all night long. You can solve night wakings, early rises, and tough transitions like moving from crib to bed or resisting naps—so evenings are calmer and nights are stress-free.
preschoolers + big kids
At 3 - 8 years, you can help preschoolers and big kids overcome regressions and habits that no longer work for the family—like needing a caregiver to stay until they fall asleep, middle of the night wakes, or late bedtimes. Help kids go from needing Melatonin or IPads to fall asleep to just needing an enjoyable, calming, and consistent routine paired with an ideal sleep environment. Evenings becomes a time to connect, and nights become a time to rest easy.
"The information felt practical, easy to follow, and very applicable to real families and real life sleep challenges."
“I really appreciated how thorough and thoughtfully organized the program was. I also liked that it encouraged critical thinking instead of pushing one one size fits all approach. Overall, it gave me a strong foundation and helped me feel more confident stepping into this work.”
