Welcome to The Retreat
The Retreat is a not-for-profit specialist mental health 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 four 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.
Complex Mental Health Recovery Services
These services provide assessment and treatment for people with complex mental health problems, usually including psychosis. It also offers treatment for alcohol addiction or abuse, for people identified as having a dual diagnosis, and for people who require brief intensive assessment and rehabilitation.
Specialist Older People’s Service
This service provides care for elderly people with challenging behaviour or whose behaviour presents difficulties to their carers in a more ordinary setting. This may include wandering, aggression or anti-social behaviour. Men and women have their own separate units to ensure the environment is both stimulating and safe.
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.
