Encino, CA
Harcrow Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy services for adolescents, adults, and couples in Los Angeles, CA. Schedule your free consultation today.
- FormatIn person or video
- LocationEncino, CA
- CurrentlyAccepting new clients
Welcome
Thank you for visiting.
Harcrow Psychotherapy offers therapy for adolescents, adults, and couples. Whether you are considering therapy for the first time or know the process well, we are glad you are here.
Call (813) 732-4763 or send an email to schedule a free consultation. We will talk through your intentions and how we can best work together.
Therapists
Meet your Therapists
Fletcher Harcrow
LPCC #18499
Fletcher provides psychodynamic psychotherapy for adolescents, adults, and couples. Much of what we think, feel, and do is shaped by the unconscious, formed in early relationships and experiences. Left unexamined, these patterns quietly steer our lives. The therapy setting is specifically structured to encourage exploration of the deeper aspects of one’s mind. Fletcher’s role is to help clients better understand themselves, especially the parts they have yet to recognize or acknowledge.
Depth psychology investigates what lies beneath awareness: the beliefs we absorbed early on, the parts of ourselves we avoid, and the relationship patterns we keep repeating. Mindfulness investigates awareness itself, noticing in real time that thoughts and feelings arise on their own and do not have to be obeyed. Fletcher asks clients to look closely at their own experience with curiosity and reflection, and to discover that freedom and ease are more available than they thought. The aim is not to be fixed but to initiate the process of becoming: to examine consciousness and the self through direct observation of experience, and to explore what it means to live fully and humanly in the modern world.
After earning a BA from Florida State University, he went on to receive a master’s from St. Bonaventure University. Fletcher is the clinical director of Harcrow Psychotherapy. He has worked in community mental health at Children’s Bureau for many years, and in the UCLA Adult OCD Intensive Outpatient Program.
Aliza Podwol
AMFT #145417 · Supervised by Steven Graubard, PhD, #30277
Aliza provides a warm, collaborative, and nonjudgmental space for clients to explore their experiences, deepen self-understanding, and create meaningful change. She works with individuals, couples, and families navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, relationship challenges, and life transitions. Her approach emphasizes curiosity, emotional awareness, and understanding the patterns that shape how we relate to ourselves and others.
Grounded in psychodynamic, depth, and spiritual psychology, Aliza explores how early experiences, unconscious processes, and family dynamics influence our present lives. She draws on exploration of dreams, shadow aspects of the self, somatic practices, and mindfulness to help clients develop insight, emotional awareness, and more authentic ways of relating.
Aliza views therapy as a collaborative process of discovery, supporting clients in understanding themselves more deeply and creating meaningful change in their lives and relationships.
Approach
Psychodynamic Therapy
Psychodynamic therapy is centered around the psychological origins and sources of emotional suffering. Its trademarks include self-reflection, self-examination, and prioritization of the relationship between therapist and client as a window into problematic behaviors and relationship patterns in the client’s life. Its intention is not only to alleviate present negative symptoms but to help individuals lead healthier lives (APA, 2010).
Areas of focus
What we help with
Anxiety and Excessive Worry
Depression and Low Mood
Relationship and Interpersonal Issues
Stress and Overwhelm
ADHD and Procrastination
Life Transitions
Self-Esteem and Identity Issues
Trauma and Grief
OCD
Addictive Behaviors
Purpose and Meaning Concerns
Blog
FearFear is the problem. Facing fear is the hope of a solution.
Fear is the problem. Facing fear is the hope of a solution. Fear unfaced breeds only more dread. Fear’s prerogative is to thwart prospects and impede the possibility of becoming. It attempts to convince one to lose conviction in their power to evolve, creating a perceived immovable barrier to change.
One apparent result of unchallenged fear is reclusion or regression. The individual who becomes excessively avoidant or catering to their anxieties often “returns to the mother”. The mother takes many shapes and symbolizes comforts that mirror the womb or the infantizing of one’s life. Consider the image of pulling sheets over the head or the compulsion to not leave the room. Both of these images exemplify our regressive instincts that arise when we become consumed by fear.
Jung says this; “for the hero, fear is a challenge and a task, because only boldness can deliver from fear. And if the risk is not taken, the meaning of life is somehow violated, and the whole future is condemned to hopeless staleness, to a drab grey lit only by will-o’-the-wisps.”
Without our willingness to confront fear we rob ourselves of the possibility, and often reality, of living life with less fear. Fear lures us away from growth and traps us in a state of perpetually undermining ourselves. It’s deceptive in nature and compromises our capacity to transform. Just as the larva embraces the unknown dark of the chrysalis before blossoming into a butterfly, we too must first conquer fear to find hope.
Office
Our space in Encino
Contact
Let’s talk.
Call to schedule your free consultation, or send an email.
Encino, CA 91436