John Tzanos Featured
John Tzanos, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist in California, Colorado, Florida, Minnesota, and Washington who provides telehealth Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I) for adults with chronic insomnia and related sleep difficulties.
Dr. Tzanos helps clients understand and change the patterns that keep insomnia going, including conditioned arousal at bedtime, sleep-related worry, irregular sleep schedules, unhelpful compensatory behaviors, nighttime anxiety, and the exhausting effort to “force” sleep. His work is practical, structured, and evidence-based, with a focus on helping clients build a steadier, more consistent relationship with sleep.
CBT-I sessions may include core components such as sleep scheduling, sleep restriction or sleep compression, stimulus control, cognitive strategies for sleep-related rumination, relaxation and self-regulation skills, circadian-informed behavioral changes, relapse prevention, and measurable tracking of progress over time. Treatment is tailored to the client’s needs rather than delivered as a one-size-fits-all protocol.
Dr. Tzanos often works with adults whose insomnia occurs alongside anxiety, OCD, ADHD, trauma-related symptoms, chronic stress, depression, or chronic pain. When symptoms suggest a possible medical sleep disorder, such as sleep apnea or another condition requiring medical evaluation, he supports appropriate coordination with medical or sleep-medicine providers.
In addition to CBT-I, Dr. Tzanos is trained in ACT, CBT, ERP, and clinical hypnosis, which he may integrate when clinically appropriate to reduce struggle with wakefulness, improve self-regulation, and help clients respond differently to the thoughts, emotions, and body sensations that interfere with sleep.
His CBT-I training includes the Beck Institute CBT-I live workshop, MUSC’s web-based CBT-I provider training, and a PESI CBT-I intensive. He offers secure telehealth for adults located in California, Colorado, Florida, Minnesota, and Washington.
Dr. Tzanos helps clients understand and change the patterns that keep insomnia going, including conditioned arousal at bedtime, sleep-related worry, irregular sleep schedules, unhelpful compensatory behaviors, nighttime anxiety, and the exhausting effort to “force” sleep. His work is practical, structured, and evidence-based, with a focus on helping clients build a steadier, more consistent relationship with sleep.
CBT-I sessions may include core components such as sleep scheduling, sleep restriction or sleep compression, stimulus control, cognitive strategies for sleep-related rumination, relaxation and self-regulation skills, circadian-informed behavioral changes, relapse prevention, and measurable tracking of progress over time. Treatment is tailored to the client’s needs rather than delivered as a one-size-fits-all protocol.
Dr. Tzanos often works with adults whose insomnia occurs alongside anxiety, OCD, ADHD, trauma-related symptoms, chronic stress, depression, or chronic pain. When symptoms suggest a possible medical sleep disorder, such as sleep apnea or another condition requiring medical evaluation, he supports appropriate coordination with medical or sleep-medicine providers.
In addition to CBT-I, Dr. Tzanos is trained in ACT, CBT, ERP, and clinical hypnosis, which he may integrate when clinically appropriate to reduce struggle with wakefulness, improve self-regulation, and help clients respond differently to the thoughts, emotions, and body sensations that interfere with sleep.
His CBT-I training includes the Beck Institute CBT-I live workshop, MUSC’s web-based CBT-I provider training, and a PESI CBT-I intensive. He offers secure telehealth for adults located in California, Colorado, Florida, Minnesota, and Washington.
Clinician Details
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Practice Name
Tzanos
Practice Address
Practice Phone
7203077378
Practice Email
Practice Website
Clinician Views
419
US State - Licensed State
US State - Clinical License
BSM/CBT-I CE Courses in the past year?
Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy — Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I), PESI — Intensive Training: CBT-I — Evidence-based Insomnia Interventions for Trauma, Anxiety, Depression, Chronic Pain, TBI, Sleep Apnea, and Nightmares, Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences — Web-Based Provider Training in CBT-I
Clinician Degree(s)
PhD
Accepting New Patients
Yes
BSM Specialties
Profession
Accept private insurance?
Yes
Provide Veteran’s Administration (VA) clinician services?
No
PSYPACT Licensed
CBT - I Experience
Telemedicine
Yes
Primary Language
English
Additional Languages
- Other
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