Couples, individual, family and addiction work with Daniel A. Linder, MFT — online across Los Angeles County.
In short: Daniel A. Linder, MFT is a California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (License LMFT 17435) with more than forty years of experience. He works with Los Angeles clients by Zoom, anywhere in LA County. Sessions run 45 minutes: $300 individual, $350 couples and family, $350 addiction treatment, $400 intervention. The first 15-minute consultation is free.
Los Angeles is an easy place to be surrounded by people and still feel unseen. The city runs on movement — work, traffic, obligation — and it is remarkably good at letting a marriage quietly drift, or a person quietly isolate, without anyone naming it out loud. Couples here often arrive saying some version of the same thing: we are not fighting, exactly. We have just stopped talking.
That is the work. Not fixing people, and not refereeing arguments, but creating a space safe enough for the conversations that have been avoided — the unexpressed feelings, the unresolved issues, the things both people already know and neither says. When that space exists, the ice thaws on its own.
There is a practical reason telehealth suits this city specifically. A weekly appointment across town is not a 45-minute commitment in Los Angeles — it is a two-hour one. That math is the single most common reason couples start therapy and then stop attending by week six. Removing the drive removes the excuse, and consistency is most of what makes relational work succeed.
It also widens the pool. Rather than choosing among therapists within a reasonable radius of Silver Lake or Santa Monica or Pasadena, you can work with whoever is actually the right fit anywhere in California. For specialized work — addiction, long-standing relational patterns, codependency — that difference matters more than proximity ever did.
The work is inside-out: you transform your relationships by transforming the relationship with your Self. After forty years, Daniel describes himself less as a clinician issuing interventions and more as a facilitator of conversations — drawing on the co-creative arts of connection, communication and conversation, and giving you repeated, practical opportunities to build those skills rather than just discuss them.
A theme runs underneath all of it: differences are not the enemy of intimacy. They are the passageway to it. Most couples arrive believing their differences are the problem to be solved. The work usually goes the other direction.
For addiction, the frame is The Relationship Model of Addiction™ — treating addiction as a relationship with a means of relief rather than as a disease. That distinction changes what recovery asks of a person, and it is the basis of much of Daniel's writing and clinical work.
Sessions are private pay. A superbill is available on request for out-of-network reimbursement.
Yes. California licensure is statewide, not city-by-city. What matters legally is that you are physically in California during the session — anywhere in LA County qualifies.
For relational work, generally yes. The substance of couples therapy is conversation, and conversation transfers well to video. The bigger risk to outcomes is not the medium — it is attendance, and telehealth helps attendance considerably in a city this spread out.
That is a common starting point, and worth saying out loud in the consultation. Often what was missing was not effort but a space safe enough for the real conversation — and frequently the work had been aimed at resolving differences rather than learning to move through them.
Sessions are private pay. Many clients submit a superbill to their insurer for out-of-network reimbursement.
Format: Zoom — throughout Los Angeles County and statewide California
Also available: in person in Fallbrook, CA
Other areas: San Diego County · the Bay Area · Orange County · the Inland Empire