Welcome to The Retreat
The Retreat is a not-for-profit specialist mental health care provider, working with the NHS to provide care for people with complex and challenging needs.
We are very proud of our reputation for excellence, providing care of the highest standard and quality. Our welcoming environment is open, light, spacious and calming, enabling recovery and independence. We help people to imagine a future for themselves, holding on to hope.
Our relationships are based on respect, dignity and tolerance and our patients are kept safe and secure through strong therapeutic relationships.
The services are categorised into three main areas:
Specialist Adult Services
Naomi is a specialist service for adults using a treatment approach informed by Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) in a therapeutic environment which promotes recovery from a range of problems. These include eating disorders, mood disorders and anxiety disorders including obsessive compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder.
The Acorn Programme is a Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) informed Therapeutic Community. The programme uses intensive psychological therapies for women who engage in self-defeating behaviours including self-harm and disordered eating to cope with emotions and with relationships. Many have experienced trauma and abuse.
Hannah Mills unit provides assessment and rehabilitation for people with complex mental health problems, including psychosis and bipolar affective disorder. It also offers treatment for alcohol addiction or abuse, for people identified as having a dual diagnosis, We help people whose ability to maintain independence in the community is compromised by distress resulting from their life experience.
Specialist Older People’s Services
These services offer specialist care to older people with either an organic brain disorder such as dementia; or with a functional disorder such psychosis, depression or personality disorder. People who use the service may as a result of these illnesses present with behaviours that are challenging to carers or nursing homes such as wandering, aggression or anti-social behaviour.
Psychological Therapies
The Tuke Centre provides high quality counselling, psychotherapy, psychiatric and psychological services for individuals, groups, couples and families. These include specialist services for trauma, personality disorders and eating disorders.
The Tuke Centre also provides employee assistance programmes for organisations along with specialist support and consultancy for employers and managers.
