Choosing the right program for you and your unique needs is important. Learn more about The Retreat by Sheppard Pratt and whether it’s the right fit for you.
Care led by highly trained, board-certified experts
At The Retreat by Sheppard Pratt, your care is led by a psychiatrist who you meet with for several hours each week. Our psychiatrists have completed extensive training in psychotherapy and other therapeutic techniques and provide far more than just medication management.
Each one of our 22 residents has an individualized team of clinicians hand-selected for their unique needs, and each of these teams is led by one of our highly trained psychiatrists.
In addition to several hours of individual therapy each week, we offer extensive, high quality group programming. Helping our residents get to the root of their problems and effectively address them is our highest priority. We dedicate all our resources to providing cutting edge, effective care.
Complex needs? That’s our specialty
Having more than one mental health condition is common—but most other programs only treat one condition in isolation. That approach—only treating part of what’s going on—is rarely effective.
At The Retreat, our team takes a truly comprehensive approach to addressing co-occurring disorders simultaneously. So, if you have both obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and an eating disorder, depression and a substance use disorder, or any combination of mental health conditions, we have the experience and expertise to address both at the same time, truly helping you get better.
Each resident’s treatment team is hand-selected for them. This gives us the flexibility to ensure that each of our residents has the right team of experts at their fingertips to help them address all their issues simultaneously. And our teams work collaboratively, ensuring a unified, holistic, and multidisciplinary approach to each resident’s unique care plan.
Personalized care supported by a full health system
The Retreat is a small, intimate program by design—we have capacity for 22 people, which enables our clinicians to spend ample time with each resident. And unlike other programs, The Retreat is supported by the entirety of the Sheppard Pratt system of care: a health system devoted entirely to mental health, consisting of more than 160 programs and over 400 sites of service.
What does that mean for our residents?
- If someone needs a consult for a mental health condition—an eating disorder, trauma, neurodivergence, schizophrenia, or something else—we have the expertise right there at Sheppard Pratt. An expert consult is a mere walk down the hallway.
- Our on-site resources are unmatched. For those who would benefit from neuromodulation such as electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) or transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), both offerings are in the same building. And for those who may need a higher level of care, The Retreat shares a campus with our safe and secure inpatient units, allowing our clinical teams to continue collaborating.
- As residents are ready for less intensive care and to return to the community, we can continue supporting them along the way. We have two step-down homes for residents of The Retreat. Residents are also welcome to continue outpatient care with their clinical team; many of our former residents have even moved to the Baltimore area to continue working with their clinician from The Retreat.
Hear from Former Patients at The Retreat
I'm very thankful for my experience at The Retreat and Ruxton House. It wasn't a place that pats you on the back to try to make you feel better. At times I didn't like that it was hard, but it was hard because the staff really wanted you to get better and work for it. I was very lucky to have the support I had at Ruxton House and The Retreat. They basically saved my life. I don't know where I would be otherwise.
If you told me two years ago that I’d be functional or happy—or even alive—I would have said, ‘not a chance.’ I never thought I’d be any of those things. If I hadn’t gone to Sheppard Pratt, I wouldn’t be functioning today, and I wouldn’t have the life I have now. The only other thing I can say is I wish I had gone sooner.
I have a lot more hope for the future now. I’m excited to wake up every day, and that’s something I’ve never experienced before. The Retreat really did save my life and restore my family. I’m forever grateful and indebted to them, and I think my family would say the same.
I go to bed fully aware of what I’ve done all day. I’m physically feeling something, and I’m emotionally feeling something. Education was a turning point for me, and it happened for me in the program at The Retreat; my psychiatrist taught me so thoroughly about addiction, and you have to learn about it before conquering it.