Let’s Sleep Tonight
I’m a Millette Method™ consultant
The Millette Method™ Pediatric Sleep Consultant Program is the most comprehensive, evidence-based training program for pediatric sleep consultants in the US and Canada. The program requires 2 years of one-on-one training with program developer and founder, Dr. Angelique Millette. Practitioners works with Dr. Millette’s Tool-Box Sleep Solutions™ method.
Education
The Millette Method Pediatric Sleep Consultant Program is the only program in the country that requires all practitioners to have an MA, MS, PhD, or PsyD.
Background
All practitioners have a background in Child Development, Family Systems Approach, Infant Mental Health, and Perinatal Mental Health — including Postpartum Depression, Anxiety, and Insomnia. Additionally, they have Lactation Education with consulting and counseling experience.
A Framework For Success
Developed over 20 years by sleep researcher, sleep consultant, and child therapist Dr. Angelique Millette, the Millette Method is an evidence-based family sleep approach informed by scientific research in child development, resiliency, sleep science, lactation, perinatal mental health, attachment, culture, neuropsychology, and family systems.
Millette Method practitioners believe that families do best if sleep methods are in line with their parenting philosophy. Practitioners also take into account: developmental windows, regressions, child temperament, feeding method, attachment, degree of sleep deprivation, and sleeping arrangement.
Dr. Millette personally selects practitioners to be a part of the team because of their specific contributions to the fields of family systems, child development, social work, counseling, psychology, education, lactation, attachment, health / wellness, and sleep.
Millette Method™ Standards
The Millette Method leads to successful outcomes because of its rigorous standards for practitioners. There is currently no licensing board or true certification program for sleep consultants in the US. Anyone can hang a shingle and call themselves a sleep consultant. Please keep that in mind while choosing your sleep consultant. Millette Method practitioners set standards you can trust.
Practitioners must…
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Have an MA, MS, PhD, PsyD in Child Development, Clinical Psychology, Counseling, Social Work, or Education.
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Be trained as a Lactation Educator or Consultant.
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Have Completed a 2 Year Training Program for Infant, Toddler, or
Child Sleep.
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Contribute to continued case presentation and education.
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Be comfortable working with the Tool-Box Sleep Solutions framework: parent checking, parent proximity, bedtime fading, schedule changes, and no-low cry method.
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Comfortable working with a range of sleep arrangements and parenting philosophies. And, skilled working with families from a culturally sensitive perspective.
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Collaborate with parents, pediatricians, lactation consultants, feeding specialists, sleep disorders clinics, physical / occupational therapists, and other doctors.
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Offer lectures to nationally recognized parenting and professional organizations.
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Write editorial content for peer-reviewed scientific journals; contribute to parenting books, websites, magazines, videos, and PSA’s.
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Develop professional guidelines for safe sleep interventions that take into account the latest science from a range of disciplines.
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Help develop national standards of care for families based on research from a range of disciplines and fields.
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Consult with daycare centers, schools, non-profit agencies, government agencies, hospitals, and universities.
The Millette Method
helped my family.
We experienced sleeplessness with our first child. Dr. Angelique Millette’s method supported our family as we navigated our own unique set of sleep challenges. Getting restful sleep is essential: the Millette Method helped us gain, and maintain it.
I am happy to answer questions about the Millette Method and to help with your family’s sleep.
