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Dr Victoria Bream

Dr Victoria Bream is a clinical psychologist and accredited cognitive behavioural therapist who in September 2019 moved to the new Oxford Health Specialist Psychological Intervention Centre (OHSPIC), previously spending many years working at the Centre for Anxiety Disorders and Trauma (CADAT) at the Maudsley Hospital London.

Her specialist expertise is in delivering CBT for OCD and hoarding.

Victoria is also a course supervisor on Institute of Psychiatry post graduate diploma in CBT (IAPT).

She is also one of the co-authors of the OCD books Break free from OCD and CBT for OCD.

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Dr Gazal Jones

Dr Gazal Jones is a Clinical Psychologist at the National and Specialist OCD, BDD and Related Disorder Service for Children and Young People (South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust).

Gazal provides specialist assessment and evidence-based treatment to children and young people with OCD across the country.

Alongside her clinical work, Gazal also works on a project aimed at improving access to mental health services amongst ethnic minority youth.

Zoe Kindynis

Dr Zoe Kindynis is a Clinical Psychologist at the National and Specialist OCD, BDD and Related Disorder Clinic at the Maudsley Hospital.

She specialises in CBT for OCD in children and adolescents. Alongside this work, she has been involved in developing and evaluating Multi Family Groups for young people with OCD, and she is the Patient and Public Involvement Co-Lead for the National and Specialist CAMHS teams.

Sorcha McCaffrey

Sorcha has had OCD since she was about five but wasn’t diagnosed until she was twenty.

Since having treatment for OCD, Sorcha has trained at drama school and works as an actor and writer. She wrote her first play Ladybones based on her experiences of having OCD, and performed it this summer at Edinburgh Festival Fringe and joined OCD-UK for a post performance discussion about the play and OCD.

Dr Josie Millar

Dr Josie Millar qualified as Clinical Psychologist from the University of Adelaide, Australia in 2006. During her clinical training and post qualification Josie developed a special interest in the treatment of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), in particular intensive treatments for OCD.

In 2010, Josie moved to the UK to work with Professor Paul Salkovskis, to further develop work on intensive treatments for OCD and specialises in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for people with severe and complex OCD.

Josie currently works clinically in Bath at the Centre of Specialist Psychological Treatment of Anxiety and Related Problems, providing specialist CBT on an outreach basis to patients nationally. Josie is also a lecturer at the University of Bath, she is involved in the training of Clinical psychologists and has developed a programme of research related to OCD.

Josie is a dedicated and highly motivated Scientist Practitioner, she strongly believes in working with people to find a collaborative approach to overcoming their difficulties and reclaiming their life from OCD.

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Professor Paul Salkovskis

Professor Paul Salkovskis, is Professor of Clinical Psychology and Applied Science and also a patron of the national charity, OCD-UK.

Paul Salkovskis qualified as a clinical psychologist in 1979 at the Institute of Psychiatry. He worked for six years in Yorkshire (in Huddersfield then Leeds) as a full time NHS clinical psychologist before moving to Oxford as a Research Clinical Psychologist. In Oxford he was promoted to Professor before moving to work at King’s College London Institute of Psychiatry as Professor of Clinical Psychology and Applied Science and Clinical Director in the Centre for Anxiety Disorders and Trauma in SLaM NHS Trust.

In 2010 he was appointed Programme Director for the Clinical Psychology Doctorate Programme at the University of Bath where Paul set up and ran a specialist OCD treatment Clinic.

He is regarded as an expert in the understanding and treatment of anxiety disorders in general, and more specifically in OCD, Panic and Agoraphobia and health anxiety, having contributed to the psychological understanding and treatment of these areas.

Paul is also currently Editor of the BABCP Journal, Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, and is President of the BABCP.

In 2018 he moved to the University of Oxford to take up the roles of Director of Oxford Institute of Clinical Psychology Training and the Director of Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre, where he will continue clinical work at the Oxford Health Specialist Psychological Intervention Centre (OHSPIC).

Professor David Veale

Professor David Veale, is David Veale is a Consultant Psychiatrist and Visiting Professor in Cognitive Behavioural Therapies at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neurosciences, King’s College London.

He leads a national outpatient and inpatient service for people with severe treatment refractory OCD and BDD at the Maudsley Hospital, London and the Priory Hospital North London. He was a member of the group revising the diagnostic guidelines for ICD11 for Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders for the World Health Organisation.

He was a member of the group that wrote the NICE guidelines on OCD and BDD in 2006 and chaired the NICE Evidence Update on OCD in 2013. He is an Honorary Fellow of the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies, Fellow of the British Psychological Society and of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Chloë Volz

Chloë Volz is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Team Lead at the National and Specialist OCD, BDD and related disorders service at the Maudsley Hospital, for the National and Specialist OCD and Related Disorders Team for Children and Young People.

She has been part of this team for the past 17 years and has taught and trained and nationally and internationally on the assessment and treatment of child and adolescent OCD.

Clinically, she oversees treatment for the most severe, treatment-resistant cases of young people with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and her role is to develop individually-tailored treatment packages, which might involve intensive, home-based and inpatient treatment.

She is also pioneering Multi-Family Group work with families of young people with OCD as an enhancement to the evidence-based CBT treatment that is offered in the clinic.

This year with 2 colleagues, she was very pleased to publish the clinic’s treatment manual and workbook OCD - Tools to help young people fight back! and OCD – Tools to help you fight back! Turner, Krebs and Volz.

Dr Sasha Walters

Dr Sasha Walters is a clinical psychologist who qualified in 2015 from the university of Bath Course following completing a PhD in the role of children's cognitions of inter-parental conflict during school transition.

Sasha is based at the Oxford Health Specialist Psychological Intervention Centre (OHSPIC).

Sasha is also a BABCP accredited practitioner and has spent her career to date working in specialist CBT services for children and young people with OCD, anxiety and depression. She has special interests in working with children with OCD and emetophobia (fear of vomiting) and works clinically and academically in these areas.