Dr. Srividya Iyer quoted in Global & Mail

How mental health training for regular citizens is helping to fill Canada’s therapy gap

…Still, lay-workers are not simply cheap, second-tier help to patch up a broken system, says Srividya Iyer, a psychologist and associate professor at McGill University. These programs, Dr. Iyer says, often deliver the kind of nimble, holistic, grassroots care that a system focused on hospitals and credentials has too often been missing. “If we re-envision a system where multiple people play roles, we would have a much better system.” Globe & Mail