About Katie 

I’m Katie Palmer, and I’ve spent over 25 years doing one thing: helping exhausted families sleep.

I started my career working as a nanny, travelling and living with families around the world — which gave me an early, hands-on understanding of how differently children sleep, and how profoundly it shapes family life. That led me to London, where I worked as a private maternity nurse, supporting parents through those first hazy, beautiful, relentless weeks. It was there I realised that sleep wasn’t just a practical problem — it was an emotional one, a relational one, and often the thing standing between a family thriving and a family barely coping.

From maternity nursing, I moved into sleep consultancy — and I haven’t looked back. Over the past 25 years I’ve worked with thousands of families across the UK, from newborns to twelve-year-olds, supporting every kind of family through every kind of sleep challenge.

Today, I’m one of very few private sleep specialists who also works as a sleep practitioner within the NHS and CAMHS. That dual perspective — private and clinical — shapes everything I do. It means my practice is grounded in the same evidence base used by healthcare professionals, and that I’ve worked with some of the most complex and challenging sleep presentations out there. When you work with me, you’re not getting trend-led advice. You’re getting 25 years of genuine clinical and real-world experience.

I’m a mum to three boys — including twins — which means I understand the daily realities and dilemmas of modern family life in a way that no qualification alone can teach. I know what it feels like to be bone-tired and still have to function. I know that the best plan in the world is useless if it doesn’t fit your actual life.

Which is why I’ve never believed in one-size-fits-all solutions.