After graduating from Boğaziçi University, Seride Samurkaş started her professional life in the IT sector and while continuing her career, she also graduated from Istanbul University Business Administration Department. She worked in the IT sector for 18 years in different international positions in an American company.
In 2007, she was introduced to the concept of insomnia and sleep coaching due to her son’s sleep problems. When this subject became a passion, she added a new dimension to her career by graduating from the Gentle Sleep Coach program, the world’s first pediatric sleep coaching program in America, in 2010. After completing the Basic and Advanced Level Training Programs in the USA, working with Kim West herself, Seride Samurkaş became the first coach in Turkey on sleep disorders in children aged 0-6, and pioneered the establishment of this sector in our country.
Since 2011, Seride Samurkaş has been providing consultancy and sleep coaching services to families, and has combined her career with the high-level analytical problem-solving experience she gained in the IT sector, specializing in identifying the causes of difficulties falling asleep and sleep interruptions and eliminating them.
In 2021, she became the Turkish representative of the international Gentle Sleep Coach program, the world’s only sleep coaching program on lifelong education, ethical approach and holistic sleep health, and founded the first sleep academy in Turkey with a total of 12 academic staff that approaches sleep holistically.
Since 2017, she has represented our country alone at the World Pediatric Sleep Congresses. Since 2019, she has been a member of the International Pediatric Sleep Association.
Seride Samurkaş, who started with the 0-6 age range, started focusing on adults by benefiting from her sleep coaching experience and knowledge. She continues her studies by including sleep health and sleep hygiene in adults.
