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Demonstrate your mastery of the material through a comprehensive final project and exam, earning your Foster & Adoption Sleep Consulting Certification.
Final Project + Exam
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Walk through real-life case studies to see how trauma-informed sleep consulting works in practice, including how to navigate complex situations and make clinical decisions.
Case Scenarios Explained
05
Discover trauma-informed sleep strategies that work for this population, including when to be more hands-on, how to adapt traditional methods, and special considerations for different trauma histories.
Sleep Techniques and Special Considerations
04
Identify the specific sleep challenges fostered and adopted children face—from bedtime resistance and night terrors to grief and anxiety—and learn how to assess if a family is ready for sleep work.
Common Sleep Issues
Understand the attachment cycle, recognize different attachment styles, and learn why building trust and felt safety must come before any sleep work begins.
Felt Safety & Attachment
Learn how trauma physically rewires the developing brain, what toxic stress does to specific brain structures, and why sleep challenges in fostered and adopted children are neurobiological, not behavioral.
Brain Development & Trauma
here's what we'll cover
Allison Ezell is a wife, mom of four, former educator, and the founder of Dwell Pediatric Sleep Consulting. Two of her children came to her family through adoption—one through international adoption and one through foster care adoption—giving her a deeply personal understanding of the unique challenges these families face.
For the past five years, Allison has specialized in serving foster and adoptive families, providing the trauma-informed sleep support that was desperately missing when her own adopted son struggled with sleep.
Certified through The Cradle Coach Academy as both a Baby and Toddler Sleep Consultant and a Foster and Adoption Sleep Consultant, Allison has spent the last several years serving hundreds of families seeking this unique specialty. She brings both professional expertise and lived experience as a foster and adoptive mom to her work, and has partnered with The Cradle Coach Academy to completely update and modernize the Foster & Adoption Sleep Consulting Certification course.
Pediatric Sleep Consultant, Foster & Adoptive Mom
Your Instructors
Marli Klaus is a certified Pediatric Sleep Consultant, owner of The Cradle Coach and The Cradle Coach Academy and mom of three. After spending over 13 years growing a successful career in corporate leadership, Marli found sleep consulting and never looked back.
As a triple certified Sleep Consultant, Marli has supported hundreds of families and through The Cradle Coach Academy, trained over 600 women to become Certified Sleep Consultants.
Certified through:
The Center for Pediatric Sleep Management (CPSM)
The Cradle Coach Academy (Foster & Adoption, Newborn Care Specialist & Pediatric Sleep Consulting)
Sleep Health Organization's SHIP program
Owner, The Cradle Coach Academy
