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Professional DBT Therapy Tailored to Emotional Dysregulation

About STG Health

STG Health Services Inc. provides integrated private health therapies and education services in Saskatchewan.

We work differently than the traditional “one appointment, one suggestion” model—because chronic emotional instability doesn’t improve with generic advice.

DBT Saskatchewan is our focused service for adults who are dealing with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) patterns, Bipolar I/II patterns, and high-impact emotional dysregulation (rapid escalation, impulsive coping, relationship rupture cycles, and the aftermath that follows).

Focused Support for BPD, Bipolar, and Emotional Regulation

Living with intense emotions can feel like you’re working twice as hard to do what seems effortless for others:

  • staying steady during conflict

  • recovering after a hard moment

  • trusting your reactions

  • keeping relationships from swinging between closeness and rupture

  • getting through urges without doing damage to yourself or your life

This isn’t a character flaw or a “try harder” problem. For many people, it’s a learned and reinforced nervous system pattern—especially when stress, sleep disruption, relationship threat, trauma history, or mood vulnerability are present.

At STG Health, we help you understand your emotional system clearly and build skills that work in real life—so your days become more predictable, your relationships become more workable, and the aftermath stops running your week.

DBT Treatment That Targets What Actually Keeps You Stuck

DBT isn’t about “being calmer.”

It’s about changing the conditions that keep your system locked into escalation—so you can do what you’re trying to do already:
pause, choose, repair, and move forward.

We focus on the real-world challenges that show up with BPD traits and bipolar patterns, such as:

  • intense emotional spikes and long recovery time

  • impulsive coping (blowups, shutdown, avoidance, risky behaviours, self-harm urges)

  • conflict cycles and fear of abandonment

  • shame spirals after the moment passes

  • routines collapsing under stress (especially when mood vulnerability is present)

  • difficulty maintaining steady boundaries and self-respect in relationships

  • “doing everything right” and still feeling out of control

A Clear, Collaborative Approach

Our style is structured, supportive, and realistic.

We’ll help you:

  • make sense of your emotional pattern and what maintains it

  • identify the loop that keeps repeating (trigger → escalation → coping → fallout → shame → repeat)

  • build a plan that fits your real life (work demands, parenting, relationships, sleep, stress)

  • establish routines that are flexible, not fragile

  • strengthen your ability to respond to intensity without self-attack

  • learn skills that hold up under pressure—not just in calm moments

You won’t be judged here. Many clients arrive exhausted, ashamed, or hopeless after years of “trying harder.” Our job is to help you understand what’s happening and build change you can sustain.

Skills That Translate Into Real Life

DBT is practical. It gives you an operating system for the moments that usually derail you.

We build skills across DBT’s core areas:

  • Mindfulness (catch escalation early, return to wise mind)

  • Distress Tolerance (get through the moment without making it worse)

  • Emotion Regulation (reduce intensity and vulnerability over time)

  • Interpersonal Effectiveness (clear requests, boundaries, less conflict, stronger repair)

Some weeks we focus on immediate pressures (relationship crises, sleep disruption, stress spikes, major life events). Other weeks we focus on the deeper work—retraining the patterns that keep pulling you into chaos.

You’ll leave sessions with clarity and next steps, not just insight.

A Space Where Big Emotions Are Understood

Therapy should feel safe, grounded, and useful.

We provide a non-judgmental space where you can speak openly about the parts of emotional dysregulation that are hard to explain:

  • feeling “too much” and then feeling ashamed for being “too much”

  • sudden fear of rejection that becomes certainty

  • waking up with a nervous system already activated

  • the crash after the burst

  • trying to repair after conflict while your body is still flooded

  • being highly capable in many areas but undone by relational threat or intensity

We’re here to help you move forward—toward steadier days, clearer choices, healthier relationships, and a life that feels worth living.

We look forward to working with you.

Dr. Chris de Feijter, EdD., MACP., C-DBT, CCC#6333, ACTA #2641

P.S.: Most people pronounce my last name as /The Fighter/. Now you don’t need to ask.

The STG Health Team

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Dr. Chris de Feijter EdD., MACP

CEO

Clinical Counsellor / Psychotherapist

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Dr. Mike White PhD

Associate

Registered Doctoral Psychologist

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Mattea Koebernick, MACP(C)

Associate

Mental Health Therapist - Practicum Student MACP