Anchor Children and Family Counseling, Inc.

Anchor Children and Family Counseling, Inc. Marriage and Family Therapist practice helping people in our community, and throughout California, to live a more balanced, happy and fulfilled life!

Melissa Springstead is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with experience teaching, tutoring and providing psychotherapy to children, adolescents and their families. Often time students in today’s world feel overwhelmed with all that is expected of them. Between academics, extracurricular activities, social and family obligations, students (and parents) often feel burnt-out. This can lead to future problems with depression, alcohol and drug use, relational problems, anxiety, etc. Melissa works with the child, adolescent and parents to help provide balance in their lives. Using specific techniques and approaches help students to maximize their time in order to live a well- balanced life leading to future success and achievements of dreams! While Melissa works with children / adolescents of all academic levels, she specializes in working with those who struggle academically due to a learning disability and other various educational barriers. Along with individual and family psychotherapy services, Melissa offers school consultations and observations. She finds collaborating with teachers, school staff and other service providers, a child / adolescent is able to have easier successes in their academics which can have a positive impact on their emotional / behavioral health. If you're looking for balance, support with academics, and/or guidance through a challenging situation, call or email Melissa to schedule a consultation.

We wanted to share one of many great resources for talking to your children about racism: CNN x Sesame Street's Town Hal...
06/10/2020

We wanted to share one of many great resources for talking to your children about racism: CNN x Sesame Street's Town Hall for Coming Together: Standing Up to Racism
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/06/app-news-section/cnn-sesame-street-race-town-hall-app-june-6-2020-app/index.html

We hope that this is a helpful resource for you and your family!

CNN's Van Jones and Erica Hill partner with "Sesame Street" for Coming Together: Standing Up to Racism, a town hall for kids and families. Watch the town hall in its entirety below:

Anchor Children and Family Counseling, inc. has always held the core values of providing hope, safety and grounding to o...
06/09/2020

Anchor Children and Family Counseling, inc. has always held the core values of providing hope, safety and grounding to our clients as well as our local and global communities. As such, we are fiercely committed to and standing in solidarity with the Black Community and the movement for Racial Justice. At this time we are looking within to listen, witness and educate ourselves, as well as support organizations that are working to dismantle the ongoing Systemic Racism in our country. We will be sharing some organizations and resources in days, weeks and months to come.

With hope and solidarity,

The Anchor Team

Anchor therapist, Julia here! Sharing helpful resources for our community.In the article "That Discomfort You're Feeling...
04/01/2020

Anchor therapist, Julia here! Sharing helpful resources for our community.

In the article "That Discomfort You're Feeling is Grief," David Kessler describes our collective grief as we navigate the new normal. Kessler highlights the value of finding meaning during this time.

The coronavirus pandemic has led to a collective loss of normalcy.

We are really excited to let you all know that Anchor's Owner, Melissa Cahill's, book is available for pre-order! The re...
03/22/2019

We are really excited to let you all know that Anchor's Owner, Melissa Cahill's, book is available for pre-order!

The reviews have been supportive for this book. It is being used as a tool to support and ANCHOR all adolescents and young adults -- not only those with ADHD.

"ADHD in Teens & Young Adults is a rich and useful resource that will provide helpful, practical tools not just for adolescents with ADHD, but for all adolescents. Guided by experience and research, Dr. Melissa Springstead Cahill breaks down skills into easy to implement steps, and empowers her readers with powerful strategies and approaches that can change minds and brains." --Tina Payne Bryson, PhD, LCSW, Co-author of the NY Times bestselling books The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline, Executive Director of The Center for Connection and The Play Strong Institute

Thank you Tina Payne Bryson for taking the time to and giving your feedback of the book!

We would love your feedback, let us know what you think!

Dealing with ADHD-related difficulties is tough, especially for young people balancing school, friends, family and thinking about their futures. Author Dr. Melissa Springstead Cahill developed the mindfulness-based ANCHORED approach, to help teens become more focused, functional and happy, and ma...

A new group offered by Brittany Fella!
01/02/2019

A new group offered by Brittany Fella!

A new group offered by Jesse Pacheco!
01/02/2019

A new group offered by Jesse Pacheco!

A new group offered by Andriette Pieron!
01/02/2019

A new group offered by Andriette Pieron!

Contact us today to start your Neurofeedback treatment to help support ADHD!
11/15/2018

Contact us today to start your Neurofeedback treatment to help support ADHD!

Neurofeedback is likely to improve focus if your child has been correctly diagnosed, and if he or she has a therapist who encourages improvement. Here is everything you need to know about this natu…

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06/15/2018

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Got to put this cool little red cap on today and do some brain mapping (QEEG). In a sense it helps me see what my brain is up to and learn how to work with it better.
After suffering from many minor and two major concussions I am very interested to see what this has to tell me!! 😅details coming soon!! .

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