About Martin
Martin Landau-North is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) practicing in California with four decades of experience. He focuses on stress and anxiety along with relationship and intimacy-related concerns. He also provides coaching for professional and life purpose questions.
In sessions he aims to build an open space where people can speak honestly about what’s worrying them. He listens for patterns tied to family history, attachment, and issues like abandonment or shame.
Background and approach
Conversations are direct and practical so clients can try new ways of handling fear, panic, or conflict. Martin has worked with a wide range of concerns across his career. These include panic attacks, addiction, divorce and separation, infidelity, and fertility-related stress.
He also supports people navigating BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture with respect and without judgment. His approach combines therapeutic work with coaching methods for people who want both symptom relief and clearer goals. He draws on experience helping men with identity and role questions, and on exploring family of origin issues that affect current relationships.
Clients can expect sessions that address immediate coping skills and longer-term patterns. Martin encourages small experiments between sessions so people can test changes in real life. He welcomes international clients and conducts sessions in English.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Evidence-based therapeutic techniques often work well over video or phone. Cognitive and behavioral methods focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors; they help with panic attacks, anxiety, and stress by giving concrete tools to try between sessions. Attachment-focused work looks at how early relationship patterns shape current intimacy and trust; it helps people who struggle with abandonment, attachment issues, or relationship conflict.Figuring out which approach fits best is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and the problems they bring. That means adjusting techniques as progress is reviewed and trying different strategies if something does not feel helpful.
Online formats offer practical advantages for many people. Video calls let visual cues guide real-time conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions can be clearer when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging allow short check-ins, ongoing coaching, or timely support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue care across locations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Coaching
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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