This is a style of sleep support that you can trust. I will not guide you down a path that doesn’t align with your values. I will not tell you that you are doing everything wrong. Clients come away from time with me feeling validated and empowered, trusting their intuition about their child’s sleep, and with a new toolkit on how to improve things for the entire family. 

My Gentle Sleep Support is tailored to your family. None of my suggestions include sleep training or crying-it-out, at all, and that is a guarantee.

Rather, we work on managing expectations, creating a menu of tools to help with sleep, understanding upcoming developmental milestones and “Sleep Regressions” and how to cope with them, identifying the Sweet Spots when changes can be made more easily, planning how to find balance in your family and care for yourself, and of course offering the tried-and-true tips and tricks from working with hundreds of families – all to gently and respectfully nudge sleep in a direction you are hoping.

A developmental approach is taken to support optimal bonding and growth which is very different from the behaviourist approach that many sleep trainers take. What this offers is the space for you as parents to follow your instincts and intuition when it comes to your child’s sleep. 

You have arrived in the right place if:

• You know sleep training is not for you but you also do not want to just suffer through it either
• You want to follow your child’s cues and be respectful and answer to their needs
• You want to find balance between respecting your child’s needs and making sure you are also valued and cared for in the process
• You may have been wary of considering working with a sleep consultant in the first place as you do not want anything imposed on you
• You aren’t looking for a quick fix and want to help nurture a true love for sleep, and help your child know that sleep is a safe place to go and a safe place to remain
• You are open to the idea that at such a young age, we shouldn’t consider training a human to do an act such as sleeping without our support when they rely on us for every single other act (feeding, diapering, hygiene, movement, etc.)
• Though difficult at times, you are open to the idea that parenting doesn’t end at sundown, that nighttime parenting is equally as important as daytime parenting
• You want to cope and make it all easier in the realm of all of the above!

Intuition Parenting Support Services is here to remove the pressure we place on ourselves to look into everything we do before we can allow ourselves to listen to what our intuition is telling us for the many, often daunting, parenting decisions we face on our journeys in growing our families.

We are so fortunate to live in a time where knowledge is at our fingertips, but it can also bog us down and be overwhelming. All the research and time spent trying to figure out the “right way” often creates stress and gobbles up the valuable family time we are trying to cherish.

What Julia Nichol of Intuition Parenting Support Services offers you is the time consuming work already complete! The training and certifications, research of the evidence and facts, reading of many expert books, all wrapped up into one supportive and loving person who you can use as a sounding board for your ideas on how YOU want to raise your children.

I will be there to support you in the ways you see fit, offering answers to the questions you ask, yet never offering ‘expert’ advice in a prescriptive manner. Parents often know exactly what to do in their child’s best interest, and may just need some reassurance along the way. No one is an expert in your child other than you, and no baby or child is the same.

Let me share the tools and knowledge I have gained to relieve your stress and help instil trust in yourself to follow your Intuition.

When I used to hear that “if you do something you love, you’ll never work a day in your life”, I did not truly believe it could be a reality. But it now is my reality. I took the one thing that I truly loved doing on my own time, and could do for hours on end with a smile on my face, and make it my career. I have the privilege of being the loving and accepting ears, a sounding board, and to offer my knowledge and advice which I have gained from over a decade of parenting and all of my learning while working with over 400 families.

My loving and open personality, my ability to listen without judgement and help guide someone to what feels right to them, my nurturing caring side, and my true passion and ability to gain the knowledge that is helpful in supporting ourselves as we parent, has led me to where I am today.

I live a busy and beautiful life in blended family of six, raising four wonderful kids with my partner. I love spending time outdoors, forest bathing, hugging trees, diving into a good book, and being in the moment with my kids. I am also learning how much I love taking care of ME and my nervous system, with breathwork, yoga, movement, somatic work, and more. I can’t wait to hear about your favourite self-care practice ad maybe even help you find balance to prioritize it!