An innovation in perinatal mental healthcare with Daisy Singla

“It’s one of the largest psychotherapy trials in the world.” When we hear “innovations in mental healthcare,” we tend to think about apps or wearables. In today’s episode of Quick Takes – part of our series on innovation – I speak with Daisy Singla, a senior scientist at CAMH and our first womenmind ™ scientist. Singla talks about her recent study that expanded access to psychotherapy for perinatal women, reducing symptoms of depression and anxiety by drawing a page from work done in low-income countries. The key concept: training up laypeople to deliver therapy. Here’s what you’ll learn in this episode: How effective therapy delivered by non-specialists was for pregnant and postpartum participants The surprising impact the study had on trauma symptoms The role task-sharing and telemedicine played in the study And how a model used in Goa can scale up to help improve maternal mental healthcare in North America THANKS FOR LISTENING! Quick Takes is a production of the Center for Addiction and Mental Health. You can find links to the relevant content mentioned in the show and accessible transcripts of all the episodes we produce online at CAMH.ca and on the CAMH Global Learning Academy. Follow CAMH Education on X (formerly known as Twitter) @camhEdu Follow and

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An innovation in perinatal mental healthcare with Daisy Singla is an episode from Quick Takes: A podcast by physicians, for physicians by CAMH (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health).

This episode is 00:14:41 long.

This episode was published on May 28, 2025.

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