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Oprah Winfrey, executive producer of "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire, " waves to photographers at the premiere of the film at AFI Fest 2009 in Los Angeles, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009.Chris Pizzello

The golden touch of Oprah Winfrey knows no borders: Her glow has been cast so far north a Toronto psychotherapist is now basking in it.

Anne Dranitsaris's phone kept ringing and e-mails poured in after the New York Post's Page Six reported Monday that Ms. Winfrey plans to set the Toronto doctor down the same path of fame and success as she did with "Dr. Phil" McGraw and Mehmet Oz.

Will she storm daytime television as Dr. Anne?

"Insiders say that Winfrey has chosen to mentor Dranitsaris in the same way she helped shape the careers of Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz," Page Six reported.

Such a link, even a passing one, to the queen of daytime TV is nothing to scoff at - the 55-year-old Ms. Winfrey makes careers, pulls authors out of obscurity, even arguably helped Barack Obama to the White House.

Dr. Dranitsaris neither confirmed nor denied what was said about her in the newspaper story.

"Wouldn't that be a dream come true," she said in an interview from her Toronto office.

Wondering how the relatively obscure Dr. Dranitsaris got cast in the role of Ms. Winfrey's possible new doctor protégé? It can be traced back to a call from an editor of O Magazine earlier this year.

The 59-year-old married mother of four (with three grandchildren) was approached by the editor to develop a quiz, "Who am I Meant to Be?," for the November issue. She tapped her experience of 30 years as a clinical psychotherapist and a corporate therapist to develop the quiz.

It was so well received that the editors called her again to write an article for the January issue on careers best suited for particular personalities.

On Monday, Dr. Dranitsaris was still reeling from all the attention, though she hasn't heard anything about it from Oprah's people. She has never even spoken to Ms. Winfrey.

"All I can say is that she knows of me, she liked the quiz. She liked it enough that she was talking about it on Oprah radio," Dr. Dranitsaris said.

"It's very exciting. But when I saw what they had written, of course it was unexpected that they would make that sort of leap. … Yes, we have this relationship where I'm writing articles. I hope it builds into something more. But right now this is what it is."

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