About Janet - Sleep Counselor

Janet Kinosian is an award-winning journalist who has written for The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times Magazine, Washington Post, W, Saturday Evening Post, People, Reader’s Digest, The New York Times Syndicate, The Los Angeles Times Syndicate and The London Times, among many others.

She has a B.A. in Psychology from UCLA and a M.A. in Counseling Psychology from Loyola Marymount University. She did postgraduate studies in neuro-psychology and psychopharmacology at UC Berkeley and poetry and creative writing at Harvard University, having won a New Letters Poetry Prize.  She lives and sleeps in Los Angeles, California. 

Her immediate goal is to become a champion sleeper. She also provides media mentoring and consulting at www.janetkinosian.com.

That’s the resume above.  On a more personal note and in no particular order, she loves stars, gardenias and pink jasmine, Pablo Neruda, crystal chandeliers, jewelry – elite status, real character, California pepper trees, meditation, all dogs, global outreach, Balinese statuary, huckleberry friendship, daily prayer, Dublin + Belfast, Beatles music, my Dalmatian/Labrador Luther Buddha Freckleman, being a reporter, sacred music, the very large gift called poetry, orthodox church candles, expensive purses, email, children’s books, memorizing the unfashionable poems of Percy Byshee Shelley, chasing the most complicated, most whimsical, most monumental laugh in all of mankind, and [the search for] truth.