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Longreach

Longreach operates along the lines of a therapeutic community, acknowledging and promoting the importance of mutual support as a vehicle for personal awareness and change. Our programme is designed to offer a balance between therapeutic groups, individual therapy sessions and other group activities. It aims to provide a place of safety and clear structure, within which you can address your own particular difficulties at a pace appropriate to your needs.

There is a mixture of group and family therapy, workshops, lectures, one to one counselling and activity based work. You can also follow a life and social skills programme, including workshops, relaxation training, drama, aerobics, gardening, yoga and other activities.

Longreach is suitable for women who have undergone detox in a medical setting but who, for whatever reason (which may include history of sexual and physical abuse), would not choose to undertake treatment in a mixed gender residential environment. They may also need more time to address underlying difficulties with self-esteem, body image, relationship building, dependence on men, health and sexual issues, food issues, employment, parenting, etc. Much work goes into reuniting mothers with their children, and helping them to build, or rebuild, relationships with one another, and children can stay for up to seven nights.

Longreach is renowned for providing services for women with very complex needs. Specialist interventions include EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) for those who need to address trauma, abuse issues, anxiety, etc. and SALT (Sexual Abuse Listening Therapy).

There are 20 beds for women over the age of 16, and the length of programme is for a minimum of 3 months, with an option for a further 3 months.