“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of being.”
Daniel J. Siegel, Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain
DURING CO-VID we continue to offer in-person and online sessions as long as we are able to. Safety precautions are in place including: sanitized toys, sanitized seating and rooms (between sessions), masks if required, socially distant therapy rooms, and air purifiers in each session room.
Available Services
Providing relational therapy, skill building, and support for bright and intense kids, teens, and adults who identify with; giftedness, 2e, ADHD, anxiety, depression, emotional existentialism and issues with self-identity and worth.
Also offering parenting support, individual adult counselling services, family sessions, and Online therapy.
On request: Workshops, school support, groups, and private group sessions.
Acorn & Anchor Licensed Clinicians:
Kids, Teens and Families
Michelle L. Guy, CYC, MSW, RSW
Clinical Director, Child and Teen Therapist
Specializing in Gifted/2e, ADHD, & Anxiety
New referrals will be placed on a waitlist until space is available.
Currently Providing Online services as well as in-person sessions (using government recommendations for COVID-19 precautions. Michelle currently supervises an MSW Intern, ask about reduced fee sessions!
Located at 1562 Bloor St. West
Toronto Ontario
647-478-7800
Teens, Parents, and
Individual Adults
Japneet Kaur, MSW, RSW
Counsellor/Therapist
Accepting new referrals for October 2020
Currently Providing Online services as well as in-person sessions (using government recommendations for COVID-19 precautions.
Located at 1562 Bloor St. West
Toronto Ontario
(647) 478-7800
A word about therapy:
Michelle L. Guy, CYC, MSW, RSW
Clinical Director & Private Practitioner
Acorn and Anchor Therapy
Therapy can help clients to make brain and body connections for self-regulation, understand and adapt behaviours that might impact how they feel about themselves and the world around them, and reduce danger responses in the brain (fight, flight, freeze and fawn). Therapy can lead to processing and reframing early childhood experiences in the brain, so that clients can reduce triggers of anxiety, fear and danger messages.
As Clinical Director of Acorn and Anchor, I work alongside personally vetted therapists who have trained under my supervision as private practitioners and who also practice using an integrative approach and other evidence-based methods.
I also provide practicum supervision to MSW students from FIFSW at University of Toronto (see our "About" section). Ask me about our reduced fees for supervised sessions with an intern.
We've always provided both in-person and online video therapy. Online session options can be useful for busy families, those who may feel too anxious to attend at office appointments, and youth and families who do not reside in the Toronto area.
We are located in a shared space with Stamen and Pistil Botanicals - a beautiful and relaxing space for some "nature therapy" too! - (Offices in the North side of the store, 1562 Bloor St. West, Toronto, ON).
Please contact us for more information about our services and therapists.
