Our Services
The Retreat is a specialist mental health provider, working with the NHS to provide care for people with complex and challenging needs.
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 Behaviour 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 Behavioural 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.
Complex Mental Health Recovery Services
These services provide assessment and treatment for people with complex mental health problems, usually 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.
The services comprise of three linked units offering the individual an opportunity to recover in an open supportive environment which matches their needs. Each person is assessed and accepted on to the unit appropriate to their current requirements, and may move between units during their recovery.
Hannah and Esther offer four intensive recovery programmes supporting people towards independent living.
Blair Atholl is a community based service for people requiring longer term placements with a rehabilitative environment.
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. Our multidisciplinary team is skilled at understanding and resolving challenging behaviours, and at supporting the person to recover a sense of their own identity. They can support the restoration of damaged relationships.
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.
