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The Rise of Domestic Abuse Across the South – BBC Spotlight Programme
A BBC Spotlight report on the rise of domestic abuse across the south. This report mentions STARS Dorset and the work we do with those who have suffered from sexual violence. Some of the content you may find distressing, so please only watch if you feel strong enough to do so. If you have been affected […]
Sexual Violence Awareness Week 2025
Sexual Violence Week took place on the 3rd – 9th February 2025 whereby we participated in …. To learn more about it, please click here
STARS Dorset Christmas opening times 2025
For Christmas 2025 we will be closed from the 22nd December 2025 through to and including the 2nd January 2026. Our first day back in the office after the Christmas and New Year period will be Monday 5th January 2026.
Linda Cundy Therapist’s Attachment Monday 25th November 2025
Linda first studied counselling in the 1980s while working in a mental health day centre, later training as an Attachment-Based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist in the 1990s. She’s worked in mental health, with young people and in bereavement, had a private practice and been involved in therapy education for the past thirty years. As well as her […]
Miriam Taylor Trauma Training Friday 14th November 2025
Miriam Taylor is a UKCP registered Gestalt psychotherapist (non-clinical), supervisor and international trainer. Having retired from clinical practice in which she specialised in trauma for over twenty five years, Miriam now includes aspects of collective trauma, social justice issues and climate change in her thinking on trauma. Based in embodied practice, her interest is in […]
Zoe Lodrick Trauma Training Thursday 10th July 2025
Zoe is a UKCP Registered Psychotherapist and an experienced Trainer and Consultant. She has over 22 years experience of providing psychotherapy to women and men who have experienced rape, sexual assault and/or childhood sexual abuse; and providing training and consultation to professionals who work with victims/survivors of sexualised traumas (whether therapeutically or within the criminal […]
Volunteers Week 2nd – 8th June 2025
It’s the 40th Anniversary of volunteers this year, so come on board and join us in celebrating. It’s human nature to feel good after helping someone out and volunteering has also been shown to improve volunteers’ wellbeing. Volunteering can also help you gain valuable new skills and experiences and boost your confidence. According to the […]
STARS Dorset is looking forward to the Gillingham & Shaftesbury Show 2025
Last year we enjoyed a very special Gillingham & Shaftsbury Show and are very much looking forward to attending again this year on the 13th & 14th August in 2025. We will be posting more information on this later in the year and in the meantime, please click here to see more about the actual […]
STARS launches Sky Dive challenge for 2025.
In 2022, Eighteen sky divers took to the skies at Go Sky Dive in Salisbury and raised a whopping £12,860 for us! We are so grateful and are planning to run another event in 2025. If you are interested in joining us, please do let us know via info@starsdorset.org It is the most we have […]
