Christina, Psychiatrists are covered by OHIP, but not a lot of them do counselling, or at least that's been my experience. But it's worth talking to your gp about. My addictions Dr. does counselling and I see her for therapy she's covered by OHIP. You could maybe try talking to your gp about a referal to a family doc that does counselling, some of them specialize in it or have additional training in it. I know my AA sponsor sees her family Dr. for counselling.

Once school starts again, you could look on campus. A lot of universities have counselling services for the students that are basically free.

Aside from that you are in the pay for it privately world, and I hate to tell you $60 is cheap. I pay my psychologist $160 / 50 min. She's what I do instead of owning a home. Some other possible sources of low cost counselling might be women's centres, or try the med school at U of O. Sometimes med schools will have counselling services with their students who are training to become psychiatrists.

That's about all I can think of. Good luck.

--splitimage