Rebecca Paushter (she/her/hers)

LCSW
Accepting Clients

I’m here to create a welcoming space where you feel deeply seen, heard, supported, and empowered.

Licensed Clinical Social Worker in La Jolla, CA

Services
  • Individual

About My Clients

Therapy with me is a space where you can show up fully — without performing or holding it all together. My clients are thoughtful and capable, often used to being the strong one, yet privately struggle with people-pleasing, perfectionism, or self-doubt. Many are navigating trauma, relationship stress, life transitions, or rediscovering their true identity. If you're ready to move from survival mode toward a more authentic, grounded way of living, I’d be honored to walk alongside you.

My Approach to Helping

Hi, I'm Becca — a LCSW who truly loves helping others. For the past 9 years, I’ve supported clients through some of life’s toughest challenges. Inspired by the breakthrough moments I witness in sessions every day, I founded Breakthrough Counseling to create a space for growth, healing, and meaningful transformation. I bring warmth, curiosity, compassion, and humor to every session. My style is collaborative and down-to-earth — I’m not here to give you all the answers, but to help you explore and uncover your own. As an Eclectic therapist rooted in Narrative Therapy, I draw from a range of evidence-based approaches, including: • Relational and depth-oriented psychotherapy • Cognitive-behavioral and acceptance-based approaches • Emotion-focused, experiential, and somatic therapy • Mindfulness- and compassion-based practices. If this feels like what you're seeking in therapy— and in a therapist— I’d love to hear from you. I look forward to witnessing your breakthrough.

More About the People I Treat

Many of the people I work with are healing from childhood and relational trauma, including adult children of emotionally immature caregivers and survivors of narcissistic abuse, domestic violence, childhood abuse or neglect, and relationships where their needs were overlooked or dismissed. Others come to therapy feeling stuck in patterns of codependency, over-giving, and prioritizing everyone else's needs while setting their own aside. I also support individuals exploring questions of identity and reconnecting with who they are beyond roles, labels, relationships, diagnoses, expectations, or abilities, as well as those navigating life transitions such as relationship changes, career shifts, relocation, or grief. Together, we'll cultivate greater self-acceptance, self-forgiveness, self-worth, and a more compassionate relationship with yourself.

Techniques I Use

Specialties
Internal Family Systems Narrative Therapy Psychodynamic Therapy
Other Techniques
  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
  • Attachment Theory
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
  • Contemplative Therapy
  • Culturally Sensitive Therapy
  • Depth Therapy
  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
  • Eclectic Therapy
  • Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
  • Existential Therapy
  • Experiential Therapy
  • Feminist Therapy
  • Gestalt Therapy
  • Holistic Therapy
  • Humanistic Therapy
  • Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • Narrative Therapy
  • Psychodynamic Therapy
  • Relational Therapy
  • Solution Focused Brief Therapy
  • Somatic Therapy: Body-Based Healing for Emotional Trauma
  • Person-Centered (Rogerian)
  • Integrative Therapy
  • Internal Family Systems
  • Trauma Therapy
  • Philosophical Counseling
  • Reality Therapy

Issues I Treat

Specialties
Codependency Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Relationship Issues
Other Issues
  • Abuse
  • Anxiety
  • Attachment
  • Bipolar
  • Body Image Issues
  • Burnout
  • Career Counseling
  • Chronic Pain or Illness
  • Codependency
  • Depression
  • Divorce
  • Domestic Violence or Intimate Partner Violence
  • Family Conflict
  • Grief or Loss
  • Historical/ Intergenerational Trauma
  • LGBTQ-Friendly Therapists
  • Men's Issues
  • Physical Disability
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Racial Identity
  • Relationship Issues
  • Self-Esteem
  • Sexual Abuse or Assault
  • Systemic Oppression Therapy
  • Women's Issues
I offer online counseling in the following states:
I have experience with the following
  • Agnosticism
  • Atheism
  • Buddhism
  • Christianity
  • Hinduism
  • Islam
  • Jehovah's Witnesses
  • Judaism
  • Interfaith
  • Multifaith

At A Glance

  • Experience: 9 years of practice
  • Languages: English
  • Rate: $130 - 200/session

Info

Email Rebecca
7855 Ivanhoe Ave
Suite 460
La Jolla, CA 92037

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