About us
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Our History
Relationship and Family Therapy (RAFT) Ltd, formerly known as Relate Bournemouth, Poole & Christchurch, is a registered charity No. 1120017 and a company limited by guarantee No. 6109030. Whilst we were incorporated as a limited company in 2007, RAFT has been serving the local community for almost 70 years.
We are proud members of the Relationships England and Wales Network - one of the UK’s largest providers of relationship, family, and sex therapy, with a national presence of former Relate centres. As a charity, RAFT has been supporting individuals, couples, and families in our community since 1958. Last year alone, we delivered more than 2,000 counselling appointments.
We offer:
Relationship counselling
Family counselling
Family coaching
Mediation
Young peoples counselling
Support for separated parents
Psychosexual counselling
Training courses for professionals and the public.
We are organisational members of the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy.
Our Mission
Our role is to help people build better relationships:
To enhance the quality of couples and parental family relationships.
To help relationships, marriages and civil partnerships withstand the pressures leading to breakdown.
To limit the damage which commonly accompanies failing relationships, separation and divorce and increase the prospect of subsequent relationships succeeding.
We aim to deliver our services with cultural sensitivity and without discrimination.
We believe that
An individual’s physical well-being and emotional and mental health benefit from a committed relationship.
Children thrive in families where relationships are positive and free from destructive conflict.
People gain from an understanding of their sexuality.
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Equal Opportunities
We operate fully within an equal opportunities policy and promote anti-discriminatory practice. We see any family, individual or couple who would like to improve a relationship or who would like to part amicably or to maintain a functioning relationship as parents even if they are no longer partners.
Our definition of 'family' is a group of related, married, co-habiting or other people who call themselves such.
