Our Services
The Retreat is a specialist mental health care provider, working with the NHS to provide care for people with complex and challenging needs.
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 or abuse.
Hannah Mills unit provides assessment and treatment for people with complex mental health problems, including psychosis and bipolar disorder. 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 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. The multidisciplinary team is experienced in understanding and resolving complex, challenging behaviours in a dignified manner. The holistic, biopsychosocial (BPS) approach supports the person to recover a sense of their own identity, optimising their strengths.
George Jepson and Katherine Allen are two gender specific units for older people, presenting with challenging behaviours of either an organic or functional nature. They provide person-centred recovery orientated interventions in a stimulating environment. In conjunction with Katherine Allen II and Blair Atholl, these units can provide a stepping stone to more independent living or continuing care where this is not possible.
Katherine Allen II unit works closely with Katherine Allen and George Jepson units. It empowers more physically able and socially active patients to live as independently as possible.
Blair Atholl is a community rehabilitation unit for older people (55+) with mental health problems many of whom have spent long periods of their life in hospital. Based in the village of Haxby patients can access local community facilities and benefit from a real sense of social inclusion.
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.
