From Child Sleep to Trauma-Informed Care: Bridging Parenting, Attachment & Emotional Wellbeing
Meet Manon Lempereur, certified hypnotherapist, parental-support practitioner, doula, child sleep professional, and graduate of the International Parenting & Health Institute’s Holistic Pregnancy & Child Sleep Consultant Certification Program.
Based in Bordeaux, France, Manon’s professional journey is a compelling example of how one area of education can become part of something much larger.
Her work has evolved across:
Infant and child sleep.
Pregnancy and postpartum support.
Parenting.
Attachment.
Trauma.
Emotional wellbeing.
Nervous-system regulation.
Hypnotherapy.
Today, Manon works with children, adolescents and adults through her private hypnotherapy practice in Bordeaux while remaining connected to families and sleep through her work in parental support and with Bébé & Confidences. Her current professional directory identifies sleep disorders and insomnia, family and parental support, maternal and parental burnout, children’s emotional support, anxiety, trauma and stress among her areas of practice.
Yet one important chapter in that multidisciplinary journey began with sleep.
Building a Professional Foundation in Child Sleep
Manon pursued professional education through the International Parenting & Health Institute, becoming certified in 2020.
Her current Liberlo professional profile independently documents:
2020 — International Parenting and Health Institute
Maternity and Child Sleep Consultant.
Today, we proudly recognize Manon as a graduate of IPHI’s Holistic Pregnancy & Child Sleep Consultant Certification Program.
That professional sleep foundation would eventually become part of a broader exploration of what can influence the wellbeing of children and their families.
Because sleep rarely exists entirely on its own.
Development matters.
Relationships matter.
Attachment matters.
Family circumstances matter.
Stress matters.
Emotional wellbeing matters.
And sometimes, what we observe around sleep exists within a much larger personal or family story.
That wider perspective increasingly became part of Manon’s professional path.
Supporting Families Through Bébé & Confidences
Manon became part of the multidisciplinary work of Bébé & Confidences, where she is publicly identified as a doula and child sleep coach.
The organization describes its sleep philosophy as individualized rather than one-size-fits-all. Its team emphasizes listening to each family’s history, respecting parental values and adapting sleep support to the individual child and family.
This approach naturally extends beyond bedtime.
Through Parents & Confidences, Manon works alongside a clinical psychologist specializing in perinatal care to provide broader support surrounding the transition into parenthood.
Their model is built around an especially meaningful idea:
“Faisons village autour de vous.” — “Let’s create a village around you.”
Together, their work addresses experiences extending from conception through pregnancy and the early postpartum period.
Sleep Is Only One Part of Becoming a Family
Parents & Confidences illustrates just how broadly Manon’s family work has evolved.
The program addresses subjects including:
fertility and conception challenges,
the couple relationship,
physiological pregnancy support,
pregnancy-related fears and emotions,
traumatic birth experiences,
newborn needs,
postpartum recovery,
atypical parenting experiences,
maternal difficulties,
family relationships,
and perinatal loss.
Manon specifically supports areas including physiological pregnancy, birth preparation, birth plans, partner involvement, breastfeeding preparation, newborn needs, attachment, development, emotional security and individualized parenting support.
Sleep therefore becomes one component of a much larger transition:
becoming a parent.
Understanding the Needs of the Newborn
One particularly important connection between Manon’s sleep education and her broader perinatal work is her focus on newborn needs.
Parents & Confidences addresses newborn feeding, sleep, babywearing, attachment, development and emotional security together rather than treating them as completely separate subjects.
That framework recognizes something fundamental about early family life:
Parents aren’t raising a collection of isolated behaviors.
They are caring for a developing human being.
Sleep exists alongside feeding.
Feeding exists alongside development.
Development occurs within relationships.
And relationships are influenced by the emotional wellbeing and circumstances of the people involved.
This broader perspective would eventually become even more significant as Manon expanded her professional education.
From Sleep & Parenting Into Hypnotherapy
Manon’s professional path continued evolving into therapeutic hypnotherapy.
Today, she practices in Bordeaux and online as a certified hypnotherapist, working with children, adolescents and adults. Her current professional focus includes anxiety, trauma, relationships, emotional difficulties, stress, burnout and sleep concerns.
Her education includes:
Ericksonian Hypnosis Practitioner
Master Practitioner in Hypnosis
Conversational Hypnosis specialization
along with continuing education involving trauma, attachment, polyvagal theory, Internal Family Systems concepts, nervous-system regulation and somatic practices.
Her current website describes a trauma-informed approach that integrates hypnosis with an understanding of the psychological and physiological dimensions of trauma.
This represents a considerable evolution from where her professional sleep journey began.
But there is also a clear thread connecting the two.
Looking Beyond the Symptom
One principle runs particularly strongly through Manon’s current therapeutic work:
Don’t stop at the presenting symptom.
Her current practice describes exploring underlying patterns and experiences rather than focusing exclusively on what appears on the surface.
That perspective has interesting parallels with holistic sleep support.
A child waking repeatedly is an observation.
An adult experiencing insomnia is an observation.
But the observation alone does not necessarily tell us why it is happening.
Manon’s professional development has increasingly focused on understanding the person beneath the presenting difficulty—their experiences, relationships, emotions, patterns and nervous-system responses.
Her toolkit has expanded.
So has the population she supports.
From Children to Adults
Although Manon originally established herself professionally within child and family sleep, her current work extends across age groups.
Liberlo lists her as working with children, adolescents and adults, both in person and online.
Interestingly, sleep remains part of that work.
Her current professional specialties explicitly include:
Sleep disorders
Insomnia and sleep difficulties
Fatigue
Stress
Anxiety
Burnout
Parental burnout
Maternal exhaustion
alongside trauma, emotional regulation and family support.
This is an important distinction.
Manon did not simply move from sleep into an unrelated profession.
She developed a broader professional framework in which sleep continues to intersect with emotional and psychological wellbeing.
Sleep, Emotional Wellbeing & the Nervous System
Manon’s current therapeutic education includes polyvagal theory, psychotrauma, somatic practices and nervous-system regulation, alongside different forms of hypnosis.
Her website describes working with both psychological and bodily dimensions of trauma and incorporating somatic tools when appropriate.
This creates an interesting professional continuum:
Child sleep → Family wellbeing → Parenting → Attachment → Emotional health → Nervous-system regulation → Trauma-informed hypnotherapy
Rather than replacing one professional identity with another, Manon has continued adding perspectives through which she can understand the people she supports.
Sleep Still Has a Place in Her Work
It would be easy to look at Manon’s current hypnotherapy practice and assume that sleep belongs only to an earlier chapter of her career.
Her current public work tells a different story.
Sleep and insomnia remain listed among her professional specialties, and current client feedback includes experiences involving both children’s and adults’ sleep.
Her work with Bébé & Confidences also continues to identify her as a doula and child sleep coach.
So while her professional scope has expanded considerably, sleep remains woven into it.
Today, however, she can approach that conversation with additional perspectives surrounding parenting, attachment, trauma, emotions and nervous-system regulation.
Creating a Village Around Parents
Perhaps one of the most compelling aspects of Manon’s current family work is the recognition that parents themselves need care.
The Parents & Confidences model considers not only the baby but also:
the mother,
the other parent,
the couple,
the body,
the emotional experience of becoming a parent,
the family system,
and the support surrounding them.
The program openly addresses maternal difficulty, baby blues, postpartum depression, traumatic birth experiences, perinatal loss, family relationships and the realities of matrescence.
That is a considerably wider conversation than:
“Is the baby sleeping?”
And that expansion is exactly what makes Manon’s professional journey so interesting.
Professional Profile
Manon Lempereur
Certified Hypnotherapist | Doula | Parental Support Practitioner | Child Sleep Professional
Location: Bordeaux, France
Current Professional Work
Certified Hypnotherapist
Private Practice — Bordeaux & Online
Doula & Child Sleep Coach
Bébé & Confidences / Parents & Confidences
IPHI Certification
Holistic Pregnancy & Child Sleep Consultant
International Parenting & Health Institute
Certified 2020
Her current professional directory independently lists her 2020 Maternity and Child Sleep Consultant certification through the International Parenting and Health Institute.
Hypnotherapy Education
Ericksonian Hypnosis Practitioner
Master Practitioner in Hypnosis
Conversational Hypnosis specialization
Additional Professional Development
Trauma & Attachment
Polyvagal Theory
Internal Family Systems
Nervous-System Regulation
Somatic Practices
Psychotrauma
Professional Focus
Trauma-Informed Hypnotherapy
Child & Family Sleep
Insomnia & Sleep Difficulties
Pregnancy & Postpartum Support
Parenting Support
Attachment
Emotional Wellbeing
Anxiety & Stress
Nervous-System Regulation
Parental & Maternal Burnout
Family Relationships
An Inspiration in Professional Evolution
Manon Lempereur’s career demonstrates that professional development doesn’t always mean leaving one field behind to enter another.
Sometimes it means expanding the lens.
Her IPHI education gave her a professional foundation in pregnancy and child sleep.
Her work with families expanded the conversation into pregnancy, postpartum life, newborn needs, attachment and parenting.
Her continuing education brought in trauma, emotions, nervous-system regulation and somatic perspectives.
And her current hypnotherapy practice allows her to support children, adolescents and adults through an even wider range of concerns.
Yet sleep remains present.
So does family.
So does the desire to understand what lies beneath the surface.
Today, Manon’s professional work brings together areas that are too often separated:
sleep, parenting, attachment, emotional wellbeing, the nervous system and the lived experiences that shape us.
💙 Congratulations, Manon!
We are proud to recognize you as an IPHI Holistic Pregnancy & Child Sleep Consultant graduate and celebrate the remarkable way your professional journey has continued to evolve—from child and family sleep into perinatal support, parenting, trauma-informed hypnotherapy and whole-person emotional wellbeing.
