Responsive, root-cause guidance for babies, kids, and adults, without sleep training, rigid rules, or pressure.
Meet Cayla Solomon, founder of Sleeping Beauties, Holistic Sleep Coach, Certified Baby-Led Sleep & Well-Being Specialist, Certified Attached at the Heart Parent Educator, psychology graduate, mother of three, and graduate of IPHI’s Integrative Adult Sleep Coach Certification Program.
Cayla’s work spans babies, children, and adults, with a strong emphasis on responsive, root-cause sleep support without traditional sleep training. Her website describes her current practice as holistic sleep support from birth through adulthood, serving families and individuals worldwide.
Her professional development also continues through IPHI’s Holistic Children & Teen Sleep Coach Certification Program, expanding an already broad foundation in pediatric sleep, adult sleep, psychology, attachment-informed parenting, feeding support, and whole-person wellness.
What makes Cayla’s work distinctive is her belief that sleep is rarely just about sleep.
Instead, she looks at the larger picture: development, nervous-system health, biology, feeding, environment, sensory needs, emotional patterns, family dynamics, and the lived experience of the person struggling to sleep.
A Foundation in Psychology
Cayla holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Western University.
That academic foundation has become an important part of how she approaches sleep, particularly in her work with children and families.
Her website explains that she uses developmental psychology to help families better understand pediatric sleep while strengthening connection and responsive parenting rather than relying on extinction-based sleep training.
For Cayla, sleep is not simply a behavior to change.
It exists within development, relationships, regulation, biology, and family life.
Beginning With Pediatric Sleep
Cayla’s professional path into sleep began with pediatric work.
She is a Certified Baby-Led Sleep & Well-Being Specialist and Certified Attached at the Heart Parent Educator, with additional education in breastfeeding support.
Her practice has long centered on helping parents understand their children’s cues and find sleep solutions that preserve connection rather than asking families to choose between better sleep and responsive parenting.
Her website states clearly that she does not use cry-it-out, extinction, or separation-based techniques.
Instead, she works with families to explore what may be influencing sleep before deciding what support is appropriate.
Looking Beneath the Surface
One of the strongest themes running through Sleeping Beauties is Cayla’s focus on root causes.
Her children’s sleep work considers factors such as:
- development
- nervous-system regulation
- circadian health
- feeding patterns
- airway health
- sensory needs
- environment
- parental well-being
- family values
Her site describes sleep as a biological function rather than simply a behavior to be trained.
This is particularly important because families may arrive seeking help with frequent waking, difficult bedtimes, or disrupted sleep while something deeper may also deserve attention.
A whole-person approach asks:
What is this sleep challenge communicating, and what else may be happening in the person’s life, body, environment, or development?
Expanding Into Adult Sleep
Cayla later expanded beyond pediatric sleep through IPHI’s Integrative Adult Sleep Coach Certification Program.
Today, Sleeping Beauties offers support not only to babies and children, but also to adults experiencing persistent sleep challenges.
Her adult sleep work goes beyond basic sleep hygiene and incorporates chronobiology, nervous-system regulation, lifestyle, and individualized habit change.
This expansion is especially meaningful because sleep changes across the lifespan.
The contributors to an infant’s sleep difficulties may be very different from those affecting an adult experiencing insomnia, chronic stress, circadian disruption, or ongoing exhaustion.
By studying both pediatric and adult sleep, Cayla has built a broader framework for understanding sleep as part of human health across different stages of life.
Continuing Into Children & Teen Sleep
Cayla is also continuing her professional development through IPHI’s Holistic Children & Teen Sleep Coach Certification Program.
That education further expands her pediatric work into the changing needs of school-age children and adolescents.
As children grow, sleep can increasingly intersect with:
development, hormones, circadian shifts, emotional health, school pressure, technology, sensory needs, social experiences, family relationships, nutrition, physical health, and lifestyle.
This creates another important bridge in Cayla’s practice—from infant sleep to older-child and adolescent sleep, while maintaining the same whole-person philosophy.
A Practice Built Around Responsive Support
Through Sleeping Beauties, Cayla provides individualized coaching and educational programs for families and adults.
Her website currently describes the practice as serving 500+ families, offering support worldwide and across the lifespan.
Her central philosophy is partnership.
She emphasizes that parents remain the experts on their own children, while her role is to bring sleep science, pattern recognition, education, and individualized support into the conversation.
That philosophy allows her to work collaboratively rather than prescriptively.
From Motherhood to Professional Practice
Cayla’s work is also informed by personal experience.
As a mother of three, she describes knowing the depth of exhaustion that can accompany difficult sleep and the pressure parents often feel to adopt sleep-training methods that do not align with their values.
Those experiences helped shape the kind of practice she wanted to create:
one that respects the parent-child relationship while still taking sleep concerns seriously.
Today, that philosophy has grown into a practice supporting babies, children, and adults through responsive, individualized sleep education.
Graduate Profile
Name: Cayla Solomon
Location: Toronto, Canada
Founder: Sleeping Beauties
Professional Identity: Holistic Sleep Coach
Education:
B.A. Psychology — Western University
Professional Training & Credentials:
Certified Baby-Led Sleep & Well-Being Specialist
Certified Attached at the Heart Parent Educator
Breastfeeding Support & Education Training
Integrative Adult Sleep Coach
Current Professional Development:
Holistic Children & Teen Sleep Coach Certification Program
IPHI Certification:
Graduate — Integrative Adult Sleep Coach Certification Program
Areas of Professional Focus:
Adult Sleep
Infant & Child Sleep
Responsive Parenting
Root-Cause Sleep Support
Developmental Psychology
Nervous-System Regulation
Chronobiology
Feeding & Sleep
Sensory Needs
Airway Awareness
Family-Centered Sleep Support
Whole-Person Wellness
Professional Philosophy:
Responsive, evidence-informed sleep support that looks at the larger biological, developmental, emotional, environmental, and relational picture rather than relying on one-size-fits-all sleep training.
Website: Sleeping Beauties
Congratulations, Cayla!
Cayla’s professional journey reflects the evolution of sleep support across the lifespan.
From pediatric sleep and developmental psychology to adult sleep, nervous-system health, chronobiology, and now deeper study of children and adolescents, she continues to expand the lens through which sleep can be understood.
We are proud to recognize Cayla Solomon as a graduate of IPHI’s Integrative Adult Sleep Coach Certification Program and to celebrate the way she has brought that education into her work through Sleeping Beauties.
Congratulations, Cayla. We are proud to have you as part of IPHI’s global graduate community and look forward to seeing the continued evolution of your whole-person sleep work.
