The Retreat (Dorchester)

If you are struggling to cope with life and feel yourself approaching a crisis point, you can attend The Retreat. The Retreat aims to provide you with a safe and welcoming environment where you can discuss your problems and work towards solutions. Staffed by both mental health professionals and peer specialists (people who have their own lived experience of mental health issues), The Retreat offers out-of-hours support and advice on self-management. You can attend if you want to try to avoid a crisis, or if you feel you have already reached a crisis point. It is up to you how you define this - you don’t need to be referred by a doctor or other health professional. You don’t need to phone ahead, just turn up and ring the front doorbell. However, where possible we would encourage you to attend before 11pm in order to make best use of this service.

The Retreat is an open access service for adults aged 18 and over. The Retreat is not able to work with people who:

• require medical attention beyond basic first aid/wound care
• are intoxicated by alcohol or substances
display threatening or physically aggressive behaviour are under the age of 18.

We are open everday 4.30pm-12midnight and are located at 30 Maiden Castle Road, Dorchester, Dorset, DT1 2ER.