Maja Schaedel
Unlock your team's potential with Dr. Maja Schaedel, the UK’s leading sleep expert, who transforms sleep challenges into actionable solutions for lasting organizational success.
Unlock your team's potential with Dr. Maja Schaedel, the UK’s leading sleep expert, who transforms sleep challenges into actionable solutions for lasting organizational success.
Dr Maja Schaedel is one of the UK’s leading Sleep Experts and she has worked with hundreds of people to fix their sleep problems. As an engaging and inspirational speaker, she is used to offering workshops and key note speeches to large groups, including at Fearne Cotton’s “Happy Place” festival and the “Pause Live” menopause conference.
As a qualified and accredited Clinical Psychologist Dr Maja has worked with people with mental health problems and sleep difficulties for over 20 years. Maja regularly speaks on BBC Radio on the subject of sleep, including on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour. She has also appeared in Channel 5’s “Breaking the Taboos” TV show about sleep during the menopause and she regularly contributes to UK publications such as The Independent, Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, Bloomberg, CNS, Grazia, Glamour etc.
Dr Maja is the Co-founder of The Good Sleep Clinic which offers one-to-one treatment to patients with sleep difficulties and offers Sleep Retreats in partnership with a luxury spa hotel in East Sussex. Dr Maja also works as the lead psychologist in one of the UK’s leading NHS sleep disorder centres at Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospital in London. Her NHS experience spans across a wide range of child and adult mental health services, including previous roles as Principle Clinical Psychologist at Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital and Head of Psychological Therapies at the Queen Victoria NHS Foundation Hospital.
She is an experienced therapist and has advanced therapy skills having undergone further training in a range of therapies such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I), Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR) and Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT). She teaches on University Clinical Psychology doctoral programmes and offers advanced psychological skills training to health professionals working with insomnia and other sleep difficulties.