About Lauren
Certified Pediatric Sleep Specialist & Board Certified Behavior Analyst
Lauren is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst, certified Behavioral Sleep Specialist and Pediatric Sleep Consultant through the Institute of Pediatric Sleep and Parenting. She is also a mom with more than 10 years of experience working with children and families.
She believes sleep support should be individualized, realistic and built around the child in front of her. Rather than relying on one set method, Lauren looks at the full picture to understand what may be affecting sleep and helps families create a plan that feels clear, manageable and supportive of their child’s needs.
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Lauren’s Approach
Sleep affects so much more than bedtime. When children are well rested, they are often better able to regulate their emotions, learn, engage and move through the day with more flexibility. Sleep matters for parents too, especially when long bedtimes or frequent night wakings start to take a toll on the whole family.
Children can struggle with sleep for many different reasons, including routines, sensory needs, development, learned sleep patterns, discomfort or changes in their environment. Because the reason is not always the same, the solution should not be either. My approach is to understand what is happening for your child and build a plan that feels realistic, supportive and manageable for your family.
Hi, I’m Lauren!
I’m a pediatric sleep specialist and mom who helps families make sleep feel more manageable. My interest in pediatric sleep grew from seeing just how often sleep struggles were affecting the families I was already working with.
For more than 10 years, I’ve worked closely with children and families around behavior, development and everyday routines. Sleep kept coming up. Bedtime was taking forever, children were waking throughout the night and parents were exhausted after trying what felt like everything.
Then I became a mom, and I understood it in a completely different way.
I knew professionally how important sleep was, but experiencing interrupted sleep and difficult nights at home made it much more personal. When your child isn’t sleeping well, it doesn’t just affect bedtime. It can change the whole rhythm of the day and leave everyone feeling tired, stressed and stretched thin.
That experience made me want to understand pediatric sleep on a deeper level, so I expanded my training and began focusing more intentionally on helping families with sleep.
My background as a Board Certified Behavior Analyst shapes the way I approach this work. I look at the patterns around sleep, what may be contributing to them and what is realistic for that particular child and family. I don’t believe in forcing every family into the same sleep method.
Over time, this became an area of work I genuinely loved, and Slumber & Harmony grew from there.
Today, I help families work through bedtime resistance, night wakings, early rising, nap challenges and more complex sleep concerns. I also have a special interest in supporting neurodivergent children, where sensory needs, communication, development and behavior can all play a role in sleep.
Every child is different and every family is different. My goal is to understand what is happening, help you make sense of it and give you a plan that feels clear, realistic and manageable for your family.
Lauren Faust
Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) & Pediatric Sleep Specialist
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