Recognizing the extreme need for services, Dialectical Living was formed to provide Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) skills and support to those in need. We would like to reduce the needless suffering for many by offering more options to acquire skills learning and support with professionallly trained peers. We strive to create a safe environment to learn and grow. Our mission is to enable those who struggle with emotion regulation and their families and friends a better quality of life; as Marsha Linehan says “a life worth living”.

We are a group of individuals who are passionate about helping others and teaching and using DBT skills. Each of us have lived experience and have been touched by emotion dysregulation either ourselves and/or have lived or worked with others who struggle. We are social workers, mental health nurses and peer support workers professionally who are leading successful lives using DBT mindfulness skills and who feel so strongly about the skills working want to give back to the community to help bring others out of the dark hole into happier more fulfilling lives.