John Tsilimparis, MFT, is a psychotherapist, mental health consultant, and former adjunct professor at Pepperdine University and UCLA. John is in private practice and was 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 mental health platform Wondermind. He is the author of Retrain Your Anxious Brain: Practical and Effective Tools to Conquer Anxiety and The Magic in the Tragic: Rewriting the Script on Grief and Discovering Happiness in our Darkest Days. His website is Johntsilimparis.com