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EPISODE · Jun 2, 2026 · 24 MIN

Should talk therapy be covered by universal healthcare?

from The Current

In any given year, 1 in 5 Canadians suffer from a mental illness. Now there are growing calls to include counselling and psychotherapy in our publicly funded system. We speak with Jaden Dulle who struggled with depression and PTSD in his early twenties and went into debt paying for counselling, and two experts who weigh in on the current system, how it's addressing the mental health crisis, and whether publicly funded mental healthcare is the answer.

In any given year, 1 in 5 Canadians suffer from a mental illness. Now there are growing calls to include counselling and psychotherapy in our publicly funded system. We speak with Jaden Dulle who struggled with depression and PTSD in his early twenties and went into debt paying for counselling, and two experts who weigh in on the current system, how it's addressing the mental health crisis, and whether publicly funded mental healthcare is the answer.

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