Hi, I’m Donna
Certified Secure Sleep and Conscious Parenting Coach, certified with the Dr Shefali Institute. Wife, mum of three girls, and the person on the other end of that free 15-minute chat.
About Donna
“We don’t need perfect kids. We need present parents, leading with loving authority”
Donna Moala
I’m Donna, founder of Parenting Collective, Conscious Parenting & Sleep Coach, and mum to three daughters, Eloise 21, Molly 19 and Isabelle 15, and married to my husband Dave for 23 years (yes, a medal is deserved).
Our three girls have taught me more than any training ever could.
My approach didn’t come just from all of my years of study or from a textbook. It came from my own home, my own sleepless nights, and eventually my own teenagers.
It began with sleep. Three girls, then it became a slow, uncomfortable realisation: the parenting I’d inherited wasn’t the parenting I wanted to give. I couldn’t bring myself to cry-it-out, so I went looking for another way and I found it. I became a Certified Sleep Specialist and founded Bub2sleep to help exhausted families find secure, nurturing sleep built on connection and nervous system regulation, rather than distress.
But the deeper I went, the clearer it became: sleep was never just about sleep. It was about connection, boundaries, and the parent we become when we are exhausted and depleted, at the end of our patience, standing in a dark room at 2am. That understanding grew Bub2sleep into Parenting Collective, and led me to train with the Dr Shefali Institute so I could bring Conscious Parenting into everything I do.
- Certified Secure Sleep & Conscious Parenting Coach
- Certified with the Dr Shefali Institute™
- Certified with Sleep Sense™
- Host of the Parenting Collective podcast
- In-home consults across Perth · Zoom worldwide
- Sleep Consultations — Newborns to age 10
- Conscious Parenting Consultations — Toddlers through to Teens
Toddler - Teens
Certified Dr Shefali Conscious Parenting Coach
Newborn - 10 Yrs
Certified Sleep Sense
Secure Sleep Coach
Beautiful Chaos Then my own girls became teenagers.
Then my own girls became teenagers.
The tools I’d always relied on stopped working. The only parenting I knew wasn’t enough, and for a while our home felt genuinely chaotic. What turned it around wasn’t a quick fix. It was seven years of family counselling, honest conversation, and a wholehearted shift to a Conscious Parenting approach. Walking beside two of our daughters through their own mental health season, and coming out the other side together, changed me as a parent for good. And with watching our family transform over the years, I then decided to study to become Certified to support other families going through similar challenges
Today our home is what I lovingly call “Beautiful Chaos.” Far from perfect, but thriving, connected, and steady. That’s the real work, and it’s the work I now do alongside other families: not the promise of perfect children in a perfect house, but a home that’s genuinely connected and resilient enough to hold the hard seasons.
From Reactive to Regulated I support families all over the world.
I support families all over the world, with in-home consultations across Perth and over Zoom everywhere else.
Whether you are facing another broken night, big feelings, shaky boundaries, or simply the parent you are becoming under pressure, we start where you are.
Because you don’t need to become a different person to parent differently. You just need a way through, and someone who’s walked it.
Donna — Founder of Parenting Collective (formerly Bub2sleep)
Let’s talk about
your family.
Fifteen minutes, no cost, no pressure. Tell me what’s happening at home and I’ll tell you honestly whether I can help.
Perth, Western Australia · In-home & Zoom, worldwide