Juliette Grantham

I approach therapy as a process through which individuals can discover their own answers, solutions, and means of moving through the inevitable questions, conflicts, and struggles that interfere with joy, contentment, and well-being. I strive to create an atmosphere of unassuming curiosity where new ways of experiencing the world can naturally take shape. Central to this work is free association—speech free from restraint and judgment, particularly the impulse to filter out what seems irrelevant or unimportant. In this openness, elements of the unconscious inevitably emerge, and it is our task to explore them with curiosity and wonder. Ultimately, I provide a process through which you can deeply reflect on your experience and thereby discover insight that leads to change. My approach is most heavily inspired by Lacanian psychoanalysis with an aim to explore how unconscious beliefs, feelings, and motivations shape an individual's life experience and lead to unintended outcomes. After becoming intimately aware of these influences, one is better able to catch them when they emerge, consider new perspectives, and choose new ways of living. Believing clarity and guidance arise most powerfully from within, I work to cultivate a dialogue with the unconscious by encouraging exploration of unconscious material, such as dreams, daydreams, fleeting thoughts, bungled actions, contradictions, patterns, and allusive turns of phrase. Rather than offering surface solutions or advice, I seek to stimulate enduring change that arises organically, leading toward ever more effortless effort in living and being. I earned my bachelor's degree at Yale University and am a graduate student at the Institute for Clinical Social Work. I meet with adults and adolescents at a frequency of 1 to 4 sessions per week. If you are curious to learn more or are ready to begin this process, feel free to contact me with any questions or to request an appointment.