Sally Unterberger has always loved her sleep.

For decades she took special pride from the fact that she could sleep through anything.

She said: “My Mum always said I could sleep like a log.

“At university it was a real problem.

“I could sleep too much and nothing would wake me.

“I even missed one of my final exams because I slept through about six alarms.”

But that all changed when Sally had twins 14 years ago.

It was a traumatic birth and experience with her son, in particular, very poorly.

Sally, who grew up in Dorset and now lives in Colehill, said: “I suffered massive sleep deprivation when my twins weren’t sleeping.

“I was so scared about them crying or something being wrong with them.

“I was probably a hypervigilant mother because of the difficult birth and the difficult start so we got into lots of bad habits with sleep.

“It just got to a crunch point where I wasn’t sleeping and the twins weren’t sleeping or thriving.

“They weren’t getting the foundational sleep that they needed to be able to grow and develop and build their immune system.

“I trawled the internet, read loads of books, came across lots of conflicting information, but then we found what worked for us.

“Sleep training them in a gentle way completely changed our lives.

“That’s when things turned for the better.”

Five years ago, Sally, who worked in finance for 21 years including JPMorgan Chase & Co and Merrill Lynch, set up in business as a sleep consultant, specialising in twins and multiples.

She’s since turned around the lives of hundreds of satisfied clients in Dorset and across the world including Canada, Germany and Switzerland.

Her 61 five star Google reviews include:

• “Sally is an absolute ‘miracle worker’. My babies will thank you one day for their amazing sleep!”
• “We debated for a while whether to get some help, and I can honestly say I am so glad we did. I cannot believe the difference Sally’s advice made within a few days.”
• “The best thing we have done. Our now 11 month old is sleeping 12 hours straight every night.”
• “We are so happy that someone recommended Sally to us. Our son has gone from waking five times a night to sleeping right through the night every night.”

Sally, who’s married to Steve and has two sisters in law also with twins, said: “My clients come now purely by word of mouth and lovely testimonials.

“I would say more than 50 per cent of clients are twins-related.

“There are quite a lot of sleep specialists but it’s different when it comes to twins and multiples.

“I have a 100 per cent success rate if my plan is followed and can guarantee it will work as long as there’s not a medical reason.

“Lives can be changed in as little as two weeks but it may occasionally go into a third week.”

Sally, 50, is certified by Baby Sleep the Night™.

She has now expanded her services to include supporting women going through the menopause and those suffering from limiting beliefs or struggling with parenting.

Trained in hypnosis, NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) and EFT tapping (emotional freedom technique), she also coaches cancer sufferers and has started to work with men and offer meditation.

Sally said: “Working with adults and sleep is a very different thing.

“The feedback and reaction is what makes it a joy.

“I’m working with a client who has twins, seven and a half months old, and she says she can’t believe the difference.

“She said ‘I can’t thank you enough. We’ve got our evenings back, we’ve got our lives back.

“The feedback is what keeps me wanting more.

“There is much more I want to do.

“The future is looking bright.”

• sallyunterberger.co.uk/