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Chrissy Lawler

Chrissy Lawler

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Licensed Family Therapist & Founder of The Peaceful Sleeper

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Join date: Oct 9, 2025

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Chrissy Lawler is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT, MS), USA Today bestselling author, and the founder of The Peaceful Sleeper — a science-backed, therapy-led approach to baby sleep training trusted by parents across the country.


With over 15 years of clinical experience as a therapist, Chrissy noticed that sleep deprivation was a consistent thread running through the mental health struggles of her clients. That insight led her to pursue advanced training in sleep medicine, where she found that many of the emotional and behavioral challenges parents and children face are directly tied to inadequate sleep. She built The Peaceful Sleeper Method to address both — combining her clinical background in developmental psychology, attachment theory, and family systems with practical, flexible sleep training frameworks that actually work.


The Peaceful Sleeper Method is a proven sleep training framework rooted in developmental psychology that honors parental intuition, giving parents the tools to help their child sleep while deepening their connection. Unlike rigid one-size-fits-all approaches, Chrissy's method adapts to each baby's temperament and each family's needs — offering gradual, modified, and accelerated routes so parents can choose the path that fits their instincts and their situation.


Chrissy has been featured as a sleep and parenting expert in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Good Morning America, Newsweek, and more. Her work has helped tens of thousands of families end exhausting nights, build stronger parent-child bonds, and finally feel confident in the newborn and infant stage.


Her goal is simple: to help parents enjoy parenthood — not just endure it.

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Oct 5, 2026 ∙ 5 min
Sleep Training Methods Compared: Cry It Out, Ferber, Chair Method & More
If you’ve been Googling “sleep training methods compared” at 2 a.m., you’ve probably discovered there are approximately one million opinions about the “right” way to get a baby to sleep. Cry it out. Ferber. The chair method. No-cry sleep training. Check-ins. No check-ins. So which one actually works? Here’s the answer I want every exhausted parent to hear: the best sleep training method is the one that works for YOUR baby and YOUR family. Research supports behavioral approaches to improving...

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Sep 30, 2026 ∙ 5 min
Sleep Training and Breastfeeding: How to Protect Milk Supply and Get Better Sleep
Sleep training and breastfeeding can absolutely work together. You do not have to choose between protecting your milk supply and helping your baby learn independent sleep skills. The biggest source of confusion is that sleep training and night weaning are not the same thing. Sleep training is about how your baby falls asleep and returns to sleep. Night weaning is about whether your baby still needs or wants calories overnight. A breastfed baby can learn to fall asleep independently and still...

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Sep 28, 2026 ∙ 5 min
Baby Waking Every Hour at Night? Why It Happens and What to Do
If your baby is waking every hour at night, you may feel like you barely fall asleep before you are needed again. Frequent night wakings can be normal in a young newborn, but hourly waking in an older baby often means it is worth looking at the full sleep picture. The question is not only “How do I make the wakings stop?” It is “Why is my baby waking, and what is age-appropriate right now?” Feeding needs, overtiredness, sleep associations, schedule problems, and physical discomfort can all...

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