Top 7 Best Baby Sleep Consultants in Boulder, CO (2026)

If you are searching for the best baby sleep consultants in Boulder, CO, you are not alone, and you are already doing the right thing. Boulder County has an unusually deep and gentle-leaning pool for its size, from a nationally known attachment and RIE pioneer to a licensed therapist who works sleep alongside attachment and anxiety, to several Sleep Sense specialists who explicitly avoid cry-it-out.

We pulled together this guide after looking at every Boulder-area and Front Range baby sleep option we could find, comparing methods, who they are best for, and what real parents say about working with them. Below: six consultants worth a discovery call, an app-based alternative for ongoing support, and an honest look at when each is the right fit.

How Boulder Parents Are Actually Sleeping in 2026

Before we get to the consultants, the local picture. As part of Betteroo’s State of Parent & Baby Sleep 2026, the largest dataset of its kind with 68,366 parents across 108 countries, we wanted to show you Boulder-specific numbers. We do not yet have a clean Boulder-only sample above our reporting threshold, so the figures below reflect our national 2026 numbers. They still tell a clear story about what families are living through.

How parents are sleeping in 2026, from Betteroo’s State of Parent and Baby Sleep report

Metric	2026 US national average
Parents exhausted or drained	83%
Parents getting under 6 hours of sleep	79%
Babies waking 3 or more times per night	55%
Most common bedtime	7pm

The numbers are stark, but they also point to real room for improvement. When babies are waking this often, the right structured support can change things fast. The Boulder consultants below specialize in exactly that.

Best Baby Sleep Consultants in Boulder at a Glance

Seven options worth a discovery call, ranked by who they are best for:

• Best overall, attachment-first and RIE-rooted: Compassionate Sleep Solutions (Eileen Henry)
• Best therapist-led, attachment and anxiety: Shuteye Counseling (Jessica Schaffer)
• Best gentle no-cry, newborn through age 5: Sleep Solutions for Children (Becky Remley)
• Best child-led virtual, sleep plus daytime behavior: Parenting Practice of Colorado (Paige LeGault)
• Best for postpartum mental health and multiples: Rocky Mountain Sleeping Baby (Maggie Chapman)
• Best in-home intensive, fastest turnaround: Colorado Dream Company
• Best app-based alternative: Betteroo

Best baby sleep consultants in Boulder for 2026: pricing, methods, formats, and best for

Consultant	Best For	Format	Price Tier	Price Range	Methodology
Compassionate Sleep Solutions (Eileen Henry)	Best overall, attachment-first and RIE-rooted	Virtual, phone	$$$	Custom, free discovery call	RIE Associate, securely attached autonomy, treats sleep as a side effect of secure attachment
Shuteye Counseling (Jessica Schaffer)	Best therapist-led, attachment and anxiety	In-person, virtual	$$$	Custom, quote on inquiry	Licensed counselor and FSI-certified, gentle attachment-based plans, play therapy for older kids
Sleep Solutions for Children (Becky Remley)	Best gentle no-cry, newborn through age 5	Virtual, local	$$	Tiered packages, free 15-min call	Sleep Sense-trained, gentle and holistic, method co-chosen with the family, not cry-it-out
Parenting Practice of Colorado (Paige LeGault)	Best child-led virtual, sleep plus daytime behavior	Virtual	$$	Custom, discovery call	Sleep Sense-trained, gentle child-led approach aiming for independent seven-to-seven sleep
Rocky Mountain Sleeping Baby (Maggie Chapman)	Best for postpartum mental health and multiples	Virtual	$$	Custom, free 15-min consult	Gentle, personalized plans with a postpartum mental-health focus and dedicated multiples packages
Colorado Dream Company	Best in-home intensive, fastest turnaround	In-home	$$$	48-hour to 5-day packages	Mommywise Method, in-home in-the-moment coaching, 48-hour to 5-day live-in support
Betteroo	Best app-based alternative, ongoing personalized support	App + 24/7 email support	$	$15 to $25 per month	Adaptive guidance that evolves with your family

Full transparency: Betteroo is our product. We have included it on this list because we genuinely think it is the best option for parents who want ongoing personalized support without the price tag of a full consultancy package. The other six picks are consultants we vetted for Boulder families.

How We Picked the Best Boulder Sleep Consultants

We looked at every option for baby sleep consultants in Boulder with verifiable credentials, an active practice in 2026, and a track record of working with families across the metro. To make this list, a consultant had to meet four criteria:

• Certified or formally trained in pediatric sleep, typically through programs like the Family Sleep Institute, the Institute of Pediatric Sleep and Parenting, the Cradle Coach Academy, the Sleep Sense program, or equivalent clinical credentials (RN, MD, IBCLC, certified postpartum doula, or Newborn Care Specialist).
• Active practice serving Boulder with availability in 2026 (we excluded consultants who have wound down or cannot be verified as still active).
• Transparent methodology, meaning they describe their approach upfront rather than hiding it behind a sales call.
• Real client outcomes backed by reviews, testimonials, or media coverage we could verify.

We started with a pool of more than 11 Boulder-area and virtual sleep consultants, newborn-care specialists, and pediatric sleep coaches, then narrowed based on those four criteria. Several names did not make the final list: some did not have a transparent methodology page, others could not be verified as still active in 2026, and a few served too narrow a niche to help most readers of this guide.

We did not accept payment, affiliate commissions, or sponsorship from any consultant on this list. Each pick reflects what we would recommend if a friend in Boulder asked us where to start.

1. Compassionate Sleep Solutions (Eileen Henry), Best Overall for Attachment-First Families

Compassionate Sleep Solutions is run by Eileen Henry, a RIE Associate with about two decades as a child sleep consultant who is taught and referred by Boulder pediatricians and hospital programs. For attachment-first Boulder families who refuse cry-it-out, she is the most experienced choice, which earns her our best overall pick¹.

She practices what she calls securely attached autonomy, a responsive, RIE-based approach that treats sleep as a side effect of secure attachment rather than a problem to fix, and she works one-to-one to balance a child’s competing needs for connection and independence. She works with local Boulder families and nationally by phone, starting with a free twenty-minute discovery call.

Best for: Boulder families who want the most experienced, explicitly responsive, RIE-rooted consultant and reject cry-it-out entirely.

2. Shuteye Counseling (Jessica Schaffer), Best Therapist-Led

Shuteye Counseling is run by Jessica Schaffer, a Licensed Professional Counselor who is also Family Sleep Institute certified and a Certified Synergetic Play Therapist. That therapist’s lens makes her the pick for families whose sleep struggles are tangled up with attachment, anxiety, or behavior².

She blends certified sleep consulting with play therapy and parent coaching for children four months to ten years, with gentle, attachment-based, individualized plans. She offers in-person playroom work for older children in Boulder and phone support for younger babies and out-of-area families, and she keeps a Boulder office.

Best for: Boulder families who want a licensed therapist’s perspective on sleep, especially when attachment, anxiety, or behavior are part of the picture.

3. Sleep Solutions for Children (Becky Remley), Best Gentle No-Cry

Sleep Solutions for Children is run by Becky Remley, a Sleep Sense-trained consultant who takes a gentle, holistic, explicitly not-cry-it-out approach for children from newborn through age five. For Boulder families who want gentle and local, she is a reliable fit.

She co-chooses a method with each family and works through a preliminary evaluation, a ninety-minute consult, a customized sleep plan, a nursery assessment, and follow-up support by call, text, and email. She serves Boulder, Fort Collins, and Northern Colorado, plus virtual clients across the country, starting with a free fifteen-minute intro call.

Best for: Boulder and Northern Colorado families who want a gentle, holistic, no-cry-it-out plan co-created with the consultant, for a newborn through a young child.

4. Parenting Practice of Colorado (Paige LeGault), Best Child-Led Virtual

Parenting Practice of Colorado is run by Paige LeGault, a Certified Pediatric Sleep Specialist trained through Sleep Sense who also brings sixteen years in early childhood education. Her gentle, child-led approach and daytime-behavior support make her a strong Boulder-based virtual option.

Her process runs from a discovery call and questionnaire through a Zoom meeting and a custom sleep plan aimed at independent seven-to-seven sleep, with no cry-it-out. She also extends into daytime behavioral support, which helps families whose challenges are not only at night. Based in Boulder, she serves Denver too, virtually via Zoom.

Best for: Boulder families who want a gentle, child-led virtual plan, especially those who could also use daytime behavior support alongside sleep.

5. Rocky Mountain Sleeping Baby (Maggie Chapman), Best for Postpartum Mental Health and Multiples

Rocky Mountain Sleeping Baby is run by Maggie Chapman, a Certified Sleep Consultant whose founder story centers on postpartum mental health. For Boulder parents navigating postpartum anxiety or depression, or raising multiples, that focus is a real differentiator.

Her plans are gentle and personalized, with dedicated packages for prenatal and newborn, three months to two years, two to eight years, and multiples, delivered virtually with a free fifteen-minute consult. She serves the Denver metro and Front Range as well as families worldwide.

Best for: Boulder parents managing postpartum mental health, or raising twins or triplets, who want a gentle, personalized virtual plan.

6. Colorado Dream Company, Best In-Home Intensive

Colorado Dream Company is the hands-on option, using the Mommywise Method with in-home, in-the-moment coaching for families who want a coach physically present. For Boulder parents who want the fastest turnaround and live support through the hard nights, it fills a different niche than a coaching-only plan.

It offers forty-eight-hour, seventy-two-hour, and five-day in-home packages plus three to four weeks of phone and email follow-up, with plans customized after meeting the baby. It aims to minimize crying while accepting that some may occur, and it works with twins. Because it presents as an in-home service team rather than a single named certification, confirm the specific coach’s credentials on your call.

Best for: Boulder families who want a coach physically in the home for an intensive, fast in-home sleep-training program, including for twins.

7. Betteroo, Best App-Based Alternative

Full transparency: Betteroo is our product, so we have included it here for comparison but encourage you to evaluate it alongside the other options.

The biggest gap with hiring a sleep consultant, even a great one, is that the engagement ends. You get a plan, you get a few weeks of follow-up, and then you are on your own. But baby sleep doesn’t stop changing. Regressions hit at 4, 8, 12, and 18 months. Nap transitions arrive whether you are ready or not. Travel, illness, daycare, a new sibling: every change resets the picture, and most families end up rebuilding their plan from scratch each time.

Betteroo is built differently. It’s designed to stick with you, adapting to your baby and your situation as both evolve, with built-in tracking, insights tailored to your family, and ongoing personalized guidance instead of a one-time intervention. The idea is that you shouldn’t need to hire a new consultant every time something changes, or piece together advice from books, forums, and Instagram at 3am when something new comes up.

It also factors in you: how you are doing, your bandwidth, your comfort level with different approaches, not just your baby. Because a plan that assumes you are operating at full capacity isn’t useful when you are running on three hours of broken sleep. For Boulder parents balancing demanding careers with a strong preference for gentle, attachment-first approaches, that’s often the difference between a plan that works and one that gets abandoned by week two.

A common path we see from Boulder families: they start with Betteroo for the day-to-day support and personalized plan, and book a one-hour call with a consultant like Compassionate Sleep Solutions or Sleep Solutions for Children if they hit a specific roadblock that needs a human in the loop. That combination tends to cost less than a full in-home package and gives you ongoing support long after the consultant call wraps up.

Best for: Families who want ongoing personalized support that evolves with them through every regression, nap transition, and life change, rather than a one-time consultant engagement.

What to know: An app can’t replace having an experienced human in your home during the hardest nights. If your baby has medical complexity, or you know you do better with hands-on coaching, hire a consultant. For most families’ day-to-day sleep questions, an adaptive app does the job, and keeps doing it as your baby grows.

For a deeper look at how Betteroo compares to other app-based approaches like Huckleberry, Pampers Sleep Coach, and Taking Cara Babies, see our full review of the best sleep training apps for babies.

Where Boulder Baby Sleep Consultants Are Based

Boulder’s sleep consultants cluster across the city and the nearby Boulder County suburbs, with several working virtually across the Front Range, so location matters less than it once did. Still, if in-person or nearby support is what you are after, here is a rough sense of where each is rooted.

Boulder and North Boulder

Compassionate Sleep Solutions, Shuteye Counseling, and Parenting Practice of Colorado are all based in Boulder itself. Shuteye keeps a playroom in Boulder for in-person work with older children, while Eileen Henry and Paige LeGault work with local families by phone and video. For families in North Boulder or central Boulder who want a genuinely local consultant, these are the natural starting points.

Louisville, Lafayette, and Longmont

Sleep Solutions for Children serves Boulder and Fort Collins across Northern Colorado, and several of these consultants cover the Boulder County suburbs of Louisville, Lafayette, and Longmont. Because the county is compact, a Boulder-based consultant can usually support families across these towns without much friction.

In-home intensives and Front Range virtual

Colorado Dream Company offers in-home, in-the-moment sleep training across Colorado for families who want a coach physically present, and Rocky Mountain Sleeping Baby works virtually across the Front Range. Between them, families can choose hands-on intensive help or fully remote support.

How Much Do Boulder Baby Sleep Consultants Cost?

Pricing for baby sleep consultants in Boulder varies, and most local consultants quote per family after a free call rather than posting full price lists. Expect roughly:

Typical cost of baby sleep consultants in Boulder in 2026

Support type	Typical price
Hourly phone calls	$100 to $250 per hour
Virtual packages and digital guides	$120 to $999
Half-night in-home support	$1,000 to $2,500
Full overnight in-home support	$2,000 to $5,000 or more
App-based plans	$15 to $25 per month

Most Boulder consultants quote per family after a free discovery or intro call rather than publishing fixed prices, so plan on a short call to get a number. The clearest way to compare is to ask each for the full written price, including any add-ons or travel fees for in-home work. Several consultants accept HSA and FSA funds, so it is worth asking.

What to Expect from a Free Discovery Call

Most Boulder consultants, including Compassionate Sleep Solutions, Shuteye Counseling, and Sleep Solutions for Children, offer a free phone or discovery call before you commit to anything. It is the single best way to tell whether a consultant is the right fit. Here are five questions worth asking on that call.

What is your methodology, and how flexible is it?

Ask the consultant to describe their default approach and how much they will adapt it. Boulder’s pool leans heavily gentle and attachment-based, from Eileen Henry’s RIE-rooted work to the Sleep Sense specialists, while Colorado Dream Company runs a more hands-on in-home intensive. You want a clear answer, not a vague one.

What credentials and training do you have?

Pediatric sleep consulting is not government-licensed, so ask directly. Reputable consultants are certified through programs like the Family Sleep Institute, the Institute of Pediatric Sleep and Parenting, or the Cradle Coach Academy, hold a clinical credential like an MD, RN, or IBCLC, or are trained postpartum doulas and Newborn Care Specialists.

What is included, and what does follow-up look like?

Find out exactly what the package covers: the written plan, how many days of texting or call support, and what happens if a regression hits after the engagement ends. Follow-up support is where packages differ most, so get specifics.

Have you worked with a situation like ours?

Whether you have a newborn, twins, a toddler fighting bedtime, or a baby with reflux, ask whether the consultant has handled it before. A consultant who has seen your specific situation will give you a more realistic plan and timeline.

What does total pricing look like?

Get the full price in writing, including any travel fees for in-home visits and any add-ons. Most Boulder consultants quote per family, so confirm the total and what is included before you book.

How to Choose the Right Boulder Baby Sleep Consultant for Your Family

Three questions to ask yourself before booking a discovery call with baby sleep consultants in Boulder:

1. How hands-on do you want the support to be?

If you are confident you can implement a plan once it is in your hands, a virtual package from Sleep Solutions for Children or Parenting Practice of Colorado is usually plenty, and the most affordable route. If you want a coach physically present, Colorado Dream Company offers in-home intensives, and Shuteye Counseling does in-person work with older children in Boulder.

2. What is your comfort level with crying?

Different consultants default to different methods, and most will adapt, but their starting point matters. Boulder is a strong market for gentle, no-cry approaches: Compassionate Sleep Solutions is explicitly responsive and not cry-it-out, and Sleep Solutions for Children and Parenting Practice of Colorado both avoid cry-it-out. For more on how methods differ, see our guide to common sleep training methods.

3. How old is your child?

Sleep Solutions for Children works from newborns through age five, Shuteye Counseling covers four months to ten years, and Rocky Mountain Sleeping Baby has packages from prenatal through age eight plus multiples. A solid baby sleep schedule by age can also tell you whether the issue is the schedule itself.

When You Probably Don’t Need a Sleep Consultant

Honestly? A lot of sleep struggles don’t require hiring a $2,000+ consultant. If your baby is generally healthy, you don’t have a complex medical situation in the picture, and you are dealing with a fairly common issue (a sleep regression, a nap transition, a schedule that just feels off), you can usually solve it with:

• A solid age-specific schedule (we cover most ages in our baby sleep schedule by age guide).
• Consistent application of one of the standard sleep training methods for 1 to 2 weeks.
• A personalized plan from an app like Betteroo, or a free quiz like ours that gives you a starting framework.

If you have genuinely tried these for several weeks and nothing is working, or if your situation is unusually complex, that is when a human consultant earns their fee. For more on how app-based approaches stack up against traditional consulting, see our deep dive on whether sleep training apps actually work.

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