John Tsilimparis

John Tsilimparis, MFT, is a distinguished psychotherapist, mental health consultant, writer, podcast host, and former adjunct professor at Pepperdine University and UCLA. He is the author of Retrain Your Anxious Brain. He was a fetured mental health expert on A&E’s Obsessed and has appeared on John Mulaney’s Everybody’s in LA, Larry King Live, The View, Fox 11 News, KTLA-News, KABC-TV, KCBS-TV, and KCAL-TV.

John is a former staff therapist in the department of psychiatry at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and in the department of addiction medicine at Kaiser Permanente. He’s a member of the Advisory Board Committee for the popular and prestigious mental health platform Wondermind, and he is an active supporter for mental health advocacy and volunteers with This Is My Brave, a charity dedicated to ending mental illness stigma.

In his private practice, John focuses on treating individuals suffering from depression, grief and loss, severe anxiety disorders like OCD, phobias, panic disorder, and trauma. John is a lover of the arts and the curative allure that creativity inspires. He is also a musician and a published composer. He lives in Los Angeles, CA.