Therapeutic Community and Outreach Service

The City and Hackney Therapeutic Community and Outreach Service provides assessment and psychological treatment for individuals with complex needs, particularly those with a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder.

The service has an intensive therapeutic community programme and an outreach and consultation service. It aims to help clients develop stability of mood, coherent sense of self and secure attachments and to reduce self-harming behaviours.

The therapeutic community is an intensive three-days-a-week programme for a minimum of one year. A maximum of 16 clients attend at any one time. Clients have access to art therapy, cognitive behavioural interventions, practical and creative projects and psychodynamic group work.