Could not recommend more! I had been co-sleeping with my 2yo daughter, experiencing choppy naps, and dealing with a very late bedtime (10pm ish) for many months before asking for Joan's help. I just wasn't sure where to start, and how to push through the challenges I knew were inevitable. Joan made a plan and guided me through every step. It wasn't easy but Joan had prepared me for that. I didn't feel uncertain about what we were doing. Along with her experience and wisdom in all things sleep, Joan has such a calm and reassuring demeanor, so you feel incredibly supported through the whole experience. We caught up twice a week on zoom to check in Joan uses a gentle approach which I loved. It took about 4 weeks for my daughter to get to the point where I can put her in the crib 100% awake and she takes herself off to sleep without assistance. The first 5 days/nights were pretty intense, but it's amazing how quickly my little one was able to learn how to sleep by herself, and now at a reasonable hour! Thank you for everything, Joan! Couldn't have done it without you :) read more

Joan is amazing to work with! So thorough and empathetic. Her strategies are amazing and they work! She helped me with my third child, which I thought I had sleep figured out by baby number 3 but he was always so crabby and come to find out I had his sleep schedule all off. Joan held my hand throughout the whole transitioning process and made it all possible. I highly recommend Joan and her services. read more

Joan was wonderful to work with. She provided guidance and practical ideas for our family to get our daughter to a more consistent sleep schedule. I am so happy to have more knowledge and tools about sleep, and a sleeping baby. :) Would recommend her to anyone looking for sleep help! read more

Joan is AMAZING! My wife and I were lucky enough to have Joan recommended to us by our Doula and will be forever grateful for her. She has now helped is with both our 4 year old and our 7 month old.. reassuring, coaxing and helping us plan out what steps we needed to take in order to get them both where we needed to be. Our 4 year old started waking a lot at night shortly after her sister arrived home and Joan literally kept us from going insane with helpful guidance, strategies and continually updating plans for each of our kids. Thankfully they are both now sleeping through the night and so are we!!! Thanks Joan!! read more

Joan provided helpful sleep coaching for our baby girl in a gentle, understanding & non-judgmental way. She understands that every baby & family has their own unique needs and tailors her coaching accordingly. She checked in with us frequently and provided helpful resources along the way. I would highly recommend Joan for all of your infant sleep related needs. read more

I absolutely recommend Joan. She was quick to hop on the phone with me after my 2-year-old started jumping out of her crib. She really listened to me, talked through what was happening, and laid out different options for solving the problem. Her advice was spot-on and immediately resolved the issue. read more

Joan is the best. She was patient, clear and available to help us through some sleep training w our 2.5 year old. Truly life changing assistance :) read more

We hired Joan back in February of this year when our daughter was almost 10 months old. She was up every couple hours and we were exhausted! We had a great first zoom meeting with her and then received a very detailed plan. She was always checking in via text and offering phone calls anytime. She continued to check in with us almost weekly and now our daughter is sleeping through the night and we still check in! I highly recommend her services! It is so hard when you are not getting sleep and she can help you with a very gentle sleep training method. We were not interested in crying it out or the extinction method, so we were very happy when we found her! -Julie, Phil and Emery read more

I didn't know what a baby sleep coach was until we had our little one! I was skeptical at first. We were referred by a friend who told us Joan's techniques were a game changer with her little one. Joan ensured she understood what we were/weren't comfortable with and created a plan for us to follow. Just having her support and knowing there was someone I could ask any little question to was so helpful! She was extremely responsive throughout the whole process. We are all happy to get some (much needed) sleep and thank you so much Joan! read more

Joan offered assistance and support when I turned to her for help with my children's sleep issues. She later followed up to check in and she confirmed I was on the right track. I highly recommend her services. She's knowledgeable and compassionate. read more

Joan is a wonderful sleep coach. She helped me and my child sleep better at night. Highly recommended.

Joan was a fantastic addition to our parenting team. As first time parents there has been so much to learn and it was so easy to fall into patterns that we couldn't recognize. Joan helped us figure out how to help our little girl be successful with sleep in just a few weeks. She was consistently available to brainstorm and talk us through the next challenge. I highly recommend Joan to anyone seeking out sleep support! read more

We met Joan when we were having difficulty sleep training our infant daughter. Joan met with us in person and helped formulate a plan for us to follow that within a short period of time started having noticeable effects on our daughter's sleep. Joan was very good about following up and whenever we had any questions or if we needed to adjust the plan Joan was always available to help. We were grateful to meet Joan and would highly recommend her for sleep consulting. read more

Wow, where to start? We hired Joan along with another night doula (also fabulous), to help with the "transition" of being new parents. Joan started when he was five or so days old and stayed with us for 3 months+. Everyone tells you about the night times, and how you'll get no sleep, and you're up every hour, and part of that is true, but having Joan there helping me through the best ways to breastfed, burping, and just generally answering questions and providing comforting advice made getting up at 1am, 3am and 5am not so bad. Really. Equally, she would change his diaper and burp him so I could pop back into bed for those 20 extra minutes, which she was always good and reminding me to take! As our son was able to take a bottle, Joan would then feed him his night feeds. Bliss!! But even though I wasn't in his room, she always made notes on his sleeping, feeding and popping (sorry :-)) patterns so we knew how he was doing during those few hours. Plus, she would write down helpful tips, products (for baby and mum), and websites etc. on these notes for us to read in the morning. My husband and I are often told how easy our son is, and we always attribute a lot to his demeanor to the support and experience Joan gave us, and showed our son. Experienced, always on time, kind and non-judgmental. She cared for the family, and that really showed everyday she came to our home. I would hire Joan again in a heartbeat, and will do with the next one.! read more

There are not enough words to describe how wonderful Joan is, but I will do my best.  She is extremely supportive, realistic, maternal, intelligent, flexible, compassionate, easy to work with, very down to earth, prompt, has excellent follow through and very hard working.  All of her guidance was spot on.  She is a great person and wonderful resource.  I absolutely recommend her services. read more

Joan is simply the best - truly wonderful! After working with two other sleep consultants that didn't quite work for our family and leaving us without much hope, I can honestly say I wish we had contacted Joan in the first place. I had so much anxiety and stress around our son's sleep challenges - not to mention sleep deprivation. I had almost given up hope in sleep consultants, but was desperate and tried to give it one last shot. Even in the first phone call, Joan was so patient, kind, warm, knowledgeable, and very genuine. We immediately started working with her and she was always available, quick to respond, supportive, and just full of so many ideas and great insight! Such a relief after all we went through. Honestly, she felt like a therapist at times or close family member and really went above and beyond the scope of a sleep consultant. I can't say enough good things about Joan and I will be forever grateful for all of her guidance and support! read more

Our sweet baby boy was always an excellent night sleeper from birth. For the first 7 mos of his life he slept completely independently in his bassinet or crib in our room. Problem was he was a horrid napper. When he was a newborn his naps were hit or miss and as he got older he would nap but ONLY while being held. He refused to sleep in his crib for naps. My husband had a long generous paternity leave, my mother lives with us, and I resigned from my position to stay home with him, so there was always someone there to hold him. It was working, but starting to weigh on everyone. Then from all the holding, and just constant strain on my back my back went completely out for an entire week and a half. That sent my sons sleeping into a tailspin and I knew I could no longer give him contact naps for my sake and his. I tried several sleep training tactics after doing research, and joining a sleep training social media group. Some of these tactics seemed so harsh and our son was not making any progress. He would scream in his crib, not just cry. He would not settle no matter what. I looked for a sleep consultant in my area and luckily found Joan. We set up a phone consultation and had a nice chat. I explained to her my son was extremely independent in all aspects of his learning but would not nap without contact. She explained it's all about finding the right tactic for each specific personality and it does not have to be harsh. My husband and I talked about it over the weekend and while we were both skeptical that the contact naps would stop, we decided to go for it. Based on what we told Joan about our lives, son, and background, she came up with a detailed and specific plan to implement for his napping and suggested that if I felt comfortable with it to also transition him into his standard crib in his nursery. I promised that I would give it my all. She suggested that since he was so independent and strong willed a more hands on approach may be appropriate with a pick up put down method. I thought my goodness I'll have to pick him up a billion times based on the crying he's done previously. The first day was a little nerve wracking for me and baby but went surprisingly well. He even slept the whole night in his crib in his room. Second day went even better. By the 3rd day implementing Joan's method tailored to my sons personality, he was sleeping two solid naps and an entire night in his crib in his own room. To say I was shocked and elated was an understatement. Because of the plan we chose we had Joan's support over the following month. During that time he was reaching several different milestones so anytime something new would pop up that affected his sleep Joan always had the answer. Joan is so competent, kind, and relatable in all she does. We hired her really as a last ditch effort and had little hope that it would work. It really was a piece of cake with Joan's expertise. Just decide now to work with her, you and your baby are so capable of getting all the sleep problems under control with her help! Matt, Kristina, and Noah read more

We are excited that Joan is now a postpartum night doula. Joan was actually our nanny for our twins, beginning at three months old. Looking back, we were young and naive about hiring a nanny and we completely lucked out when we interviewed and hired Joan. One of Joan's greatest strengths is her professionalism. She is always very clear about her role, her contribution to our family, and the best possible ways to help in any given situation. We were always extremely comfortable about having her in our home and working with our children in their infancy. Joan has terrific experience with babies and toddlers and was always the clear expert on any issue. Joan takes great pride in her work - she was always studying to get better, looking at new recipes to fix food for our children, looking for new parks and places to take them. Joan also has a particular passion for babies and the exciting but scary time just after babies are born. She is a real expert in this area. I would trust Joan's knowledge, expertise, and instincts on any issue regarding a baby. She is particularly helpful because, especially for first children, none of us know anything when they are first born. And she got us through twins! I can only imagine how terrific she would be with one baby! We would hire her again in a moment to do anything related to taking care and helping parents through infancy. We are so glad she is out there working as a doula...no doubt many families will benefit in the future from her care, her knowledge, her commitment, and her warmth and sense of fun. We are fortunate she has stayed close to us and our children long after she left our employ. read more

Hire her, quick! That was the advice we received when calling one of Joan's references. This was spot on. She is amazingly reliable, gentle and knowledgable. I learned so much from Joan, and my days and nights have been happier and smoother thanks to her support. read more

Joan worked with us for a few weeks in June. We were extremely lucky to find someone that we were comfortable with and trusted. She is warm, friendly and a very talented night doula. She is very professional, has incredible patience and is also very nurturing. Joan is a wealth of information and has been a great resource for us regarding nap and feeding questions even after her time with us. I would hire her in a heartbeat if we have a second baby! read more

Joan is absolutely wonderful and I slept so well knowing she was here looking after my son. And on nights (or parts of nights) when I was up nursing or couldn't sleep, she was a pleasure to hang out with. She is knowledgeable, flexible, and caring. I'm sure she could fit into any family with ease. I adore her (and so does my dog by the way) and would recommend her without hesitation. I wish she could just live here! read more

Joan worked as a night doula to help me and my husband care for our twin girls from the time they came home from the hospital until they were about four months old. Joan very quickly showed herself to be caring, professional and extremely knowledgeable! She has a very warm nature and my husband and I felt incredibly comfortable having her in our home and, even more impressively, were very quickly able to sleep through the night having 100 percent confidence in Joan's judgement, caring and vigilance in watching our daughters. Joan also routinely discussed our concerns with us and very patiently helped me and my husband think through the decisions that lay ahead. Our daughters were also sleeping mostly through the night at four months thanks, in good part, to Joan's extraordinary help and guidance. Joan is a great, caring person with a wealth of knowledge and a wonderful support to any new parent! I agree with the advice is an earlier review, hire her quick! read more

Joan is fantastic, plain and simple. She provided consistent support, reassurance -- not to mention valuable hours of sleep after the birth of our first child. It's important that you feel a good rapport with your doula during this time and Joan is fantastic at providing guidance when you need it, but doing so in a gentle and reassuring manner. Most importantly, she took fantastic care of our daughter (so patient and loving), and she also was a wonderful support for me (helping with baby laundry, baby bottles, etc). She's a wonderful educational resource -- we'd start each evening chatting about our latest concern or issue, and I'd often wake up to a couple of relevant handouts or notes the next morning. I have to admit that I wasn't sure whether or not bringing in a night doula would be an unneeded extravagance after the birth of my child, but I can absolutely say that this was one of the best investments we've made. read more