Meet the Consultant; Jeehee
Hi! I’m Jeehee — a licensed marriage and family therapist, board‑certified art therapist, and EMDR‑certified therapist and consultant‑in‑training. But here at Studio Roots, I am your sleep consultant. All of my other titles simply make me a better sleep consultant for you, your baby, and your family.
As a sleep consultant, I don’t offer therapy at Studio Roots — but I do bring the depth of my clinical training and experiences into my coaching approach.
Studio Roots is the space where I support you so your baby can rest — and where you can feel strong in the role only you can hold.
Click the “learn more about EMDR informed coaching” to learn what EMDR is, and how EMDR informed coaching can be helpful
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Sleep training isn’t just about sleep — it’s about you learning to stay grounded and being a firm boundary when your child struggles.
Through years of clinical work with children and families, I’ve seen how profoundly secure attachment shapes a child’s life. It becomes one of their greatest strengths — the ability to trust the world, trust others, and trust themselves. That trust makes facing future challenges so much easier.
My approach to sleep training is rooted in this understanding. My goal is to prepare you to be your child’s sleep‑training guide by helping you build a grounded mindset — the foundation that naturally supports secure attachment.
I know some people believe sleep training negatively impacts attachment. From my clinical understanding and personal opinion, it truly depends on how it is done and what is happening in the relationship outside of sleep training.
With me, sleep training is never just about sleep. It’s about learning to stay steady when your child struggles, and learning to trust yourself as much as your baby trusts you.
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I believe children thrive when their caregivers feel grounded and able to be a safe container of their baby’s experience.
What I do is teach and support you to be a safe container for your baby’s feelings and experiences during sleep training. This attitude will become a foundation of your relationship with your child — how your child views the world.
I want to be honest: I do not know how to sleep train babies or children without any crying — unless their temperament naturally allows it (if so, you would probably not looking for a sleep consultation).
There is no real way to teach a child something they don’t want (but need to learn) at first without some level of frustration, small or big.
Babies don’t yet know how to regulate their emotions, how to digest their experience in a way aht is beneficial to them. They need space to feel and express them, and they need you to stay steady and grounded while they do. When you allow them to feel without rushing to stop the feelings — you help them learn that emotions are safe, tolerable, and temporary. This is possible when you are grounded.
Staying grounded with a crying baby is hard. On top of that babies and young children are naturally really good at testing adults — not because they are manipulating you, but because they are learning how the world works. They are testing the limits so they know what to expect, and how to stay within the safe boundary.
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My own sleep training journey began with my daughter when she was 3 months old. I struggled deeply with her inability to fall asleep on her own. I felt myself disappearing, and that was the moment I realized that I needed support so I could return to myself and give her the care and love that she deserved.
I researched several sleep training methods, studied baby sleep science, and I soon realized that sleep training is really about setting loving boundaries and structure that will be the foundation of my child’s relationship with me. My clinical work helped me a lot but still it was hard to actually integrate what I know into my attitude and actions.
Implementing what I know into my attitude was the hardest part during the sleep training.
Once that perspective changed, everything became easier. I am willing to be a safe container for my baby, so she can experience, learn, and grow in the safe structure. She was not alone in the whole process.
Studio Roots was created from this experience. My hope is that it becomes a place where you feel supported, understood, and strengthened — a place where your roots grow deeper, so your child’s can too.
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When children know what to expect — and what is expected of them — they feel safe. Safety comes from predictability, not from getting everything they want. And when parents feel grounded, children thrive. Sleep training is simply one of the first places where this truth becomes visible.
Here at Studio Roots, sleep training is not just about sleep. It’s about learning to stay steady when your child struggles, and learning to trust yourself as much as your baby trusts you.
My hope is that Studio Roots becomes a place where you feel supported, understood, and strengthened — a place where your roots can be nurtured, so your child’s can too. When the roots are strong, everything above them grows healthy.
At Studio Roots, we believe boundaries are not the opposite of love; they are the structure that creates safety and trust in your child’s world. Boundaries also help you stay connected to the best version of yourself as a parent, so you can offer consistent love — the foundation of secure attachment that every parent wants for their baby.
Babies and young children naturally test limits as part of their development. They are not trying to manipulate you — they are learning how the world works. When parents hold firm, loving boundaries, children experience less confusion, less anxiety, and more emotional security.
This is why Studio Roots was never meant to be “just” a sleep consultation service. The name doesn’t focus on sleep alone because the work we do together reaches far beyond bedtime.
Studio Roots exists to help you build an invisible but reliable foundation for your child’s early development — nurturing your baby’s rest, your own steadiness, and your family’s long‑term resilience.
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