Blog Entry #1 date this July 5, 2026

"It's not the sea that drowns you; it's the puddle."

I often share with my clients that their decision to enter therapy offers a break in the waves. Therapy provides a safe, calm space where they can free themselves to explore and share their past and current thoughts and beliefs and begin to envision their goals and hopes for their future.

In the therapy space, I encourage you to let go of your assumptions of what you “should” be, enabling you to find your inner resilience and work with your innate strengths. Despite your challenges and those waves that seem to be continually breaking over you, you are strong enough to show up in therapy and plot your own course toward that horizon beyond the waves.

As your partner on this journey, it is my privilege to offer professional guidance and warm, non-judgmental acceptance as you make your way toward a more hopeful and fulfilling future.

About the Author

Mary Ann Grossman is an AMFT (#161657) and APCC (#22011), supervised by Dr. Jeffery Sammis, Psy.D. License#25029. She offers trauma-informed, integrated CBT therapy, including EMDR. Mary Ann provides in person and telehealth therapy for individuals, couples, and families in California. She also has worked with clients across the life span who are navigating co-occurring severe mental illness and substance use disorders by supporting them in healing from trauma and strengthening recovery.

As an Associate MFT/PCC in the practice Bay Area Community Counseling, Mary Ann works with individuals, couples, and families to treat trauma, anxiety, depression, and personality disorders, as well as issues relating to ADHD.

Quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Soviet and Russian Author