Our Bedford Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) Graduate Peer Support Group is held at the Bedford Wellbeing Centre on Woburn Road in Bedford, from 10.30 am – 12.30 pm on alternate Tuesdays.
This group is for people who have completed DBT Skills training and are at a stage of recovery where they would benefit from ongoing peer support to continue using the skills they have learned to build a life they experience as worth living.
The DBT Graduate Peer Support group will be led by a Peer Support Facilitator from Mind BLMK with lived experience of their own. They will facilitate the sessions specifically for those who have completed DBT skills training or who are about to graduate from the DBT skills course. The Peer Support Facilitator will also be supported by staff from East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT).
If you have completed the 6 month DBT Skills Training course and would like to refer yourself (or if you are a professional referring on behalf of someone) to this group please print out and complete the referral form below. You will also need to print out the contract and the safety plan guidance. Once you have filled in the form, please send it back to Sally Thurbon on [email protected] You can also contact Sally on 07903 147675 (please note that messages from this phone are only picked up once a week).
DBT Access To ServicesDBT Contract
There is more information about DBT on national Mind’s website.
Here are some photos from the launch of the service to tell you more about it.
This group is funded by East London NHS Foundation Trust.

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