Specialist Therapies

Fifteen Therapeutic Community

The Fifteen day programme uses the Democratic Therapeutic Community (DTC) principles of support, participation and responsibility as its structure. It aims to provide a safe environment for people with emotional, behavioural and relationship difficulties. By working together the group helps each other find healthier ways of dealing with distressing feelings...(more)

Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT)

Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) is an evidence based therapy designed specifically for women with chronic and severe self harm-harming behaviours, suicidal thoughts/urges or repeated suicide attempts...(more)

Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT)

Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) is a structured individual therapy that involves a therapist and a client working together looking at what has hindered changes in the past, in order to understand better how to move forward in the present. Questions like, "Why do I always end up feeling like this?" become more answerable...(more)

Mentalisation Based Therapy (MBT)

MBT (Mentalization Based Treatment Approach) is a type of psychotherapy that focuses on developing your ability to recognise what's going on in your own mind, in terms of thoughts and feelings, and what might be going on in other people. We call this 'mentalization'...(more)

Transference Focused Psychotherapy (TFP)

TFP is a treatment for borderline and other severe personality disorders. The model is based on object relations theory. The idea is that people relate to one another and to themselves in terms of object relations dyads. The theory of borderline personality disorder is that patients with this condition are in a position where negative and positive dyads are kept apart and not integrated into the personality as a whole...(more)