"By night three, she slept a solid 12 hours straight."
Donna was so easy to talk to. A gentle approach, and it works.
For the parent searching at 2am
Conscious parenting coaching and secure sleep support with Donna Moala, with over 21 years experience and Certified with the Dr Shefali Institute. Nurturing and never cry-it-out.
Based in Perth, supporting families worldwide, from Newborns all the way through to teens.
Donna MoalaTurning chaos into calm
Never cry-it-outConscious parenting · Dr Shefali Institute certifiedNewborns to teensPerth · In-home & Zoom worldwideMum of threeNever cry-it-outConscious parenting · Dr Shefali Institute certifiedNewborns to teensPerth · In-home & Zoom worldwideMum of threeNever cry-it-outConscious parenting · Dr Shefali Institute certifiedNewborns to teensPerth · In-home & Zoom worldwideMum of threeNever cry-it-outConscious parenting · Dr Shefali Institute certifiedNewborns to teensPerth · In-home & Zoom worldwideMum of three
Two ways I can help
Parenting First – The Conscious Parenting way
Parent Transformation Coaching, for parents with strong willed kids, ready to break reactive patterns and build strong, respectful relationships, raising resilient, emotionally aware kids while staying connected to yourself. Grounded in Dr Shefali’s conscious parenting approach.
Practical strategiesAll agesBreak the cycle
1:1 Secure Sleep Support
The Optimal Sleep Package is a fully personalised, responsive plan tailored to your family’s values, with 1:1 unlimited access and support with your Sleep Coach. Never cry-it-out. No one-size-fits-all.
Newborn4 months – 2 yrs2 – 4 years4 – 10 years
21-day supportTailored plan
Sleep support packages
Every child is different and so is their sleep requirements. Age, temperament, and personality all shape what your child needs to rest well, and your package is built around exactly that.
Each package includes:
The fourth trimester is about rhythm, not rules. This package builds gentle foundations, helping your baby settle calmly, feed well, and begin telling day from night, while protecting your recovery and confidence as a new parent.
The hardest season for most families, and the one Donna is asked about most. A responsive plan that teaches your little one to fall asleep securely and stay asleep, without leaving them to cry, and without undoing your bond.
Toddler sleep is parenting, not just sleep, which is where Donna's conscious parenting work meets her sleep expertise. Loving boundaries, calmer bedtimes, and a child who feels secure enough to stay in their own bed.
It's never too late. For school-aged kids and teens still ending up in your bed at 3am, lying awake with worries, or running on a body clock that has shifted later, this package builds confident, independent sleep, with your child's voice and feelings part of the plan.
The Trust Index
★★★★★"We are one week in and my 3-month-old is now sleeping 11–12 hours every night. You have saved my relationship and my sanity."

"By night three, she slept a solid 12 hours straight."
Donna was so easy to talk to. A gentle approach, and it works.
"Our 7-year-old had slept in our bed for 18 months."
We’d tried everything. Donna was patient, understanding, and lived up to every expectation.
"Donna takes the guesswork out of parenting."
At the two-week mark our toddler slept through, and has ever since.
"Not all heroes wear capes."
Our girl was waking every 45 minutes. She learned to settle with us right there beside her.
"After twins, we were up 15+ times a night."
Three solid naps a day and 11–12 hours overnight. We feel human again.
"I can put her down awake and leave the room."
Within three nights she slept through. A very soft approach that worked for us.
"By night three, she slept a solid 12 hours straight."
Donna was so easy to talk to. A gentle approach, and it works.
"Our 7-year-old had slept in our bed for 18 months."
We’d tried everything. Donna was patient, understanding, and lived up to every expectation.
"Donna takes the guesswork out of parenting."
At the two-week mark our toddler slept through, and has ever since.
"Not all heroes wear capes."
Our girl was waking every 45 minutes. She learned to settle with us right there beside her.
"After twins, we were up 15+ times a night."
Three solid naps a day and 11–12 hours overnight. We feel human again.
"I can put her down awake and leave the room."
Within three nights she slept through. A very soft approach that worked for us.
"By night three, she slept a solid 12 hours straight."
Donna was so easy to talk to. A gentle approach, and it works.
"Our 7-year-old had slept in our bed for 18 months."
We’d tried everything. Donna was patient, understanding, and lived up to every expectation.
"Donna takes the guesswork out of parenting."
At the two-week mark our toddler slept through, and has ever since.
"Not all heroes wear capes."
Our girl was waking every 45 minutes. She learned to settle with us right there beside her.
"After twins, we were up 15+ times a night."
Three solid naps a day and 11–12 hours overnight. We feel human again.
"I can put her down awake and leave the room."
Within three nights she slept through. A very soft approach that worked for us.
"By night three, she slept a solid 12 hours straight."
Donna was so easy to talk to. A gentle approach, and it works.
"Our 7-year-old had slept in our bed for 18 months."
We’d tried everything. Donna was patient, understanding, and lived up to every expectation.
"Donna takes the guesswork out of parenting."
At the two-week mark our toddler slept through, and has ever since.
"Not all heroes wear capes."
Our girl was waking every 45 minutes. She learned to settle with us right there beside her.
"After twins, we were up 15+ times a night."
Three solid naps a day and 11–12 hours overnight. We feel human again.
"I can put her down awake and leave the room."
Within three nights she slept through. A very soft approach that worked for us.
Meet Donna
“We don’t need perfect kids. We need present, connected parents.”
Donna Moala
Donna Moala is a Certified Secure Sleep and Conscious Parenting Coach, certified with the Dr Shefali Institute, supporting families around the world through in-home consults and Zoom. With over 21 years of experience, drawn not only from extensive study and textbooks, but from lived experience, her approach is nurturing, responsive, evidence-based, and never cry-it-out. She’s a wife and mum to three teenage girls.
Certified Secure Sleep & Conscious Parenting CoachCertified with the Dr Shefali Institute™Certified with Sleep Sense™Host of the Parenting Collective podcastIn-home consults across Perth · Zoom worldwideSleep Consultations — Newborns to age 10Conscious Parenting Consultations — Toddlers through to Teens
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Good to know
No. Every Parenting Collective sleep package is responsive and never cry-it-out. You stay in the room with your child, supporting them while they learn the skill of falling asleep. Donna Moala is a Sleep Sense certified consultant, and every plan is built around your child's temperament and your family's values rather than a fixed timetable.
Most families see meaningful change within the first week. The Optimal Sleep Package runs for 21 days of dedicated 1:1 support, with a plan personalised to your child's age and temperament, unlimited WhatsApp support and phone calls throughout — so you are never left alone to interpret a PDF at 2am.
Newborns through to teens. Sleep support is grouped into four age bands — newborn (0–3 months), baby and young toddler, toddler and preschooler, and older children and teens (4–16 years) — because a four month regression, a cot to big kid bed transition and a teenager's bedtime screens each need a different plan.
No. There is no age at which sleep stops being learnable. Older children who have never slept independently often move faster than parents expect, because they can understand the plan and take part in it. Donna regularly works with families whose children are three, five or ten and still waking overnight.
Both. Donna Moala is based in Perth, Western Australia, and offers in-home consultations across the Perth metropolitan area. Families anywhere in the world work with her over Zoom, with the same personalised plan, private family sleep portal and daily check-ins through the Rested App logging system.
Conscious parenting treats your child's behaviour as communication rather than misbehaviour, and asks the parent to regulate themselves first. Instead of managing a child with rewards and punishments, you build the connection and steadiness that let their nervous system settle. Donna Moala is certified with the Dr Shefali Institute.
Yes — strong-willed and neurodiverse children are exactly who this work is built for. Approaches that rely on compliance tend to escalate with these children, because the behaviour is a nervous system under stress rather than defiance. Parent Transformation Coaching focuses on co-regulation, predictable boundaries and repair, which works with your child's wiring instead of against it.
Yes. It totally works just as well with one parent who attends. One steady, regulated parent shifts the whole household dynamic, and many families start with one and bring the other in later. It also supports staying united as parents even when co-parenting from different homes.
Coaching is practical, forward looking and focused on what you do tonight, where therapy typically works backwards through history and diagnosis. Parent Transformation Coaching gives you strategies, scripts and a plan for what you are actually facing — tantrums, talking back, fighting with siblings, a school-refusal week — with Donna alongside you while you use them.
Book a free 15 minute chat. You will talk through what is happening at home, and Donna will tell you honestly whether conscious parenting coaching, secure sleep support, or a combination of the two is the right fit for your family. There is no obligation, and if she is not the right person to help, she will say so.
Fifteen minutes with Donna. No cost, no pressure, just an honest conversation about what’s happening in your home and what’s possible.
Perth, Western Australia · In-home & Zoom, worldwide