Pamela Polcyn

Pamela Polcyn builds her practice around a single conviction: that moving through difficulty should lead somewhere, not just leave a person managing it indefinitely. Working from Encinitas and offering sessions online throughout California, she brings a results-oriented approach that pairs compassionate inquiry with concrete structure — identifying the specific patterns holding someone back, then building the conditions for real change.

Her work spans individuals, couples, and families navigating anxiety, mood disorders, trauma, abuse recovery, career transitions, relationship strain, and addiction. She draws from an unusually broad therapeutic toolkit — CBT, mindfulness, hypnotherapy, EFT, Gestalt, focusing, and coaching among them — selecting methods for each person rather than fitting people to a method. For someone who ends every evening scrolling through other people’s lives and still goes to bed feeling unseen, that individualized attention can itself be the beginning of something different.

Dr. Polcyn holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology and a Master’s in Counseling Psychology, with certifications in anxiety treatment, substance abuse recovery, hypnotherapy, divorce mediation, and Adlerian psychology. She offers a free telephone consultation as a first step.