About Us

Alex has extensive experience in public and private sector organisations supporting learning, training, and skills initiatives. His background in customer focussed marketing projects and administration helps individuals and organisations he interacts with to achieve their own goals and objectives.

Alice Vaughn is an Assistant Psychologist for Oxford Health Specialist Psychological Intervention Centre and Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre.

Alice’s role spans administrative and clinical tasks, facilitating the effective running of the clinic and centre, contributing to service development and other projects, and supporting clinicians throughout the assessment and treatment process.

Alice completed her undergraduate degree in Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford and has since worked in a range of mental health settings, including supporting Children and Young People with special educational needs and mental health difficulties.

Alison Croft trained as a clinical psychologist in Oxford. She has over 30 years’ experience of working in various adult mental health services in the NHS, from primary to tertiary care and has extensive experience of applying CBT with a wide range of clinical presentations. She is accredited with BABCP as a CBT practitioner, supervisor and trainer.

Alison’s specialist clinical interests include promoting good mental health in healthcare professionals, working with anxiety disorders and with complex presentations related to trauma. She currently works clinically in Oxford as a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with the Medic Support Service and the Oxford Highly Specialist Psychological Interventions Clinic. She is Co-deputy director of the Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre (OCTC), course director for the PG Cert in CBT and a course tutor on the PG Cert in CBT for Psychological Trauma. She has experience of delivering training and supervision to a wide range of clinicians, from beginner to expert level, both in the UK and overseas. Alison has published several book chapters related to CBT practice and research papers in the areas of CBT training and service innovations, and physician mental health.

Amandeep Soomal is a Senior Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist specialising in Perinatal Mental Health. Amandeep has worked in primary care talking therapies services, and most recently specialist community mental health teams. She offers CBT assessment, formulation and treatment interventions as well as Couples Therapy and Video Interaction Guidance (VIG) to support parents and families experiencing challenges in their mental health and attachment in the vulnerable perinatal period.

Amandeep is a Programme Lead on the BABCP Top Up Programme for qualified Clinical Psychologists supporting clinicians progress towards BABCP Accreditation by coordinating CBT teaching, supervision and marking nationally. Amandeep is also an Academic Tutor on the Postgraduate Diploma for CBT, offering supervision and marking at University of Birmingham and now OCTC. Amandeep has an interest in embedding intersectionality within teaching and supervision and considering power and privilege within therapeutic practice.

Dr Anne Garland, Consultant Psychotherapist is the lead for depression at OCTC. Anne is a mental health nurse by profession, trained in both behavioural and cognitive psychotherapy. Anne has 32 years’ experience of working clinically using CBT and has specialised in treating persistent, treatment resistant depression for the last twenty-eight years. Anne has a national and international reputation as a CBT trainer and has published widely in the field of CBT for depression. Anne has been involved both as a collaborator and grant holder in funded RCT’s the most recent of which tested the clinical and cost effectiveness of CBT in the treatment of depression delivered via the Nottingham Specialist Depression Service, established in 2009. This is a unique service within England offering NICE recommended pharmacological and psychological treatments for persistent, treatment resistant depression within a collaborative care model.

Dr. Dan White is a highly experienced Consultant Clinical Psychotherapist with a research doctorate in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) from the University of Oxford. With over a decade of clinical practice, he is dedicated to providing effective, evidence-based therapy for a range of psychological difficulties.

Dan specialises in treating anxiety disorders at the clinic, especially Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Additionally, a significant and pioneering area of his work is the treatment of misophonia (a severe sensitivity to specific sounds). As a key member of a specialist, cutting-edge team, he is one of a small number of clinicians in the UK offering dedicated therapy for this condition.

His therapeutic style is firmly grounded in evidence-based CBT, with a particular focus on the importance of a strong, collaborative therapeutic relationship. To deepen the therapeutic work, he regularly integrates powerful experiential techniques such as imagery, chairwork and ‘parts-work’, helping clients to understand, integrate and accept various aspects of themselves.

Recognised for his expertise, Dr. White is also committed to training the next generation of psychotherapists, serving as the Deputy Lead for a number of postgraduate CBT courses at the University of Oxford.

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Helen Kennerley is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and a founder member of the Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre, where she was for many years Director of the postgraduate courses in Advanced Cognitive Therapy Studies and the MSc in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. She is currently the lead for the OCTC / University of Oxford Certificate in Supervision and Training.  She is an experienced clinician now specialising in childhood trauma. She has made valuable contributions to the field of cognitive therapy through her popular workshops and her writings. Amongst other publications, she is the author of Overcoming Anxiety and co-author of An Introduction to Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, both of which have been highly commended by the British Medical Association. In 2002, Helen was also voted one of the most influential female cognitive therapists in Britain by BABCP members.

Helena Laughton-Curwell completed her qualification as a counselling psychologist at University of Surrey in 2002. She worked in Aylesbury CAMHS and ISSP (young offenders) initially and then started her post in Bucks Early Intervention in Psychosis (BEIS) Service in 2004. Developing a special interest in autism, she undertook a secondment to the Oxford Adult Autism Diagnostic Service in 2014. She was awarded a distinction from Kings College London in her PGC in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Psychosis in 2017, shortly followed by working as a trial therapist for a feasibility RCT comparing antipsychotic mediation with psychological therapy (MAPS). She has been a supervisor/marker for OCTC since 2018. She currently works part time for OCTC as Deputy Course Lead for the PGCert in Enhanced CBT (Psychosis and Bipolar), alongside her post in BEIS and is also team lead for the Buckinghamshire At Risk Mental States Service. Helena is passionate about ensuring that people experiencing psychosis have access to high quality, evidence-based interventions.

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Jo Adams is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and a BABCP accredited Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist who has worked in child and adolescent mental health services for over fifteen years. Jo has substantial experience of working with children, young people and their families across a range of psychological difficulties, and currently holds a clinical position within a specialist child and adolescent eating disorder service. Within OCTC, Jo leads on the Post Graduate Certificate in Enhanced CBT for Children and Adolescents, as well as providing supervision and training for work with children, young people and families. Alongside her role at OCTC, Jo is an Academic and Course Tutor at the Oxford Institute of Clinical Psychology Training and Research, and leads the child and adolescent curriculum. Prior to this, she was a clinical tutor and lead for CAMHS on the Doctoral Programme in Clinical Psychology at the University of Bath. Jo is passionate about working with children and young people, and understanding their difficulties within a developmental and systemic context. Jo supervises a number of trainee research projects and has particular interest in adolescent development, eating disorders, social anxiety, perfectionism, self -esteem and understanding transdiagnosic CBT mechanisms across these presentations.

Dr Kate Rosen has worked in Oxford since completing her clinical psychology training at the Institute of Psychology over twenty years ago.  In this time she has had a wealth of experiences and has gained expertise in working with CBT with adults with a wide range of clinical presentations, working in a variety of settings from primary to tertiary and inpatient and outpatient services.  Choosing to specialise in CBT and its application across disorders, Kate has also completed a PhD investigating illness appraisals in psychosis.  She currently works for OCTC as a supervisor and trainer.

Kevin is a consultant clinical psychologist. He completed his doctoral training in clinical psychology in 1997 and his Diploma in cognitive therapy in 2000. He worked within a specialist tertiary level CBT Centre for 21 years where he developed a special interest in PTSD and trauma. More recently he worked into staff wellbeing. He is an experienced supervisor and trainer.  Together with Prof. Mark Freeston, he co-authored a self-help book entitled Overcoming Worry and Generalised Anxiety Disorder.

He is an accredited BABCP trainer, supervisor, and therapist. He is also an EMDR Consultant and is part-trained in Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy.

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Maddy started her role as Involvement Coordinator at the Oxford Centre for Psychological Health in 2024.   She has a BA(Hons) in Social and Political Studies (Ruskin College, Oxford) and an MA Disability Studies (University of Leeds).

Prior to her current role, she worked as a Researcher at King’s College London and the Research Institute for Disabled Consumers.  She has also led patient-public involvement projects for the NHS and as the manager of Healthwatch Barnet.     She has her own lived experience of using mental health services and conducting lived experience research.

Maddy’s research interests include women’s experiences of navigating systems of mental healthcare; psychosis, motherhood and citizenship; and participatory methods in healthcare improvement.    She is happy to provide lived experience expertise relating to perinatal mental health and psychosis.

Email: madeleine.chadwick@psy.ox.ac.uk

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Paul Salkovskis qualified as a clinical psychologist in 1979 at the Institute of Psychiatry and the Maudsley Hospital. He then worked in Yorkshire as a full time NHS clinical psychologist in Psychology services and Liaison Psychiatry, before moving to Oxford as a Research Clinical Psychologist. He was awarded his PhD from the University of Reading in 1990. While working in Oxford he was a Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow, and was appointed Professor of Cognitive Psychology of the University 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. From 2010 until 2018 he was Programme and Research Director for the Clinical Psychology Doctorate Programme at Bath, which he developed as a new programme. In Bath, Paul also set up and ran a highly specialist NHS Clinic, working with Avon and Wiltshire Partnership NHS Trust, accepting national referrals involving people experiencing severe anxiety problems who had not found previous treatment sufficiently helpful.

In April 2018 he began his appointment as Director of the Oxford Centre for Psychological Health, the Oxford Institute for Clinical Psychology Training and Research and The Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre (University of Oxford and Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust). In 2019 he was appointed as Professor of Clinical Psychology in the University of Oxford Department of Experimental Psychology. He has continued to carry out clinical work in the NHS throughout his entire career, and is the Director of the Oxford Health Specialist Psychological Interventions Clinic. He is strongly committed to the continued dissemination and improvement of appropriate help for mental health issues, working in partnership with all stakeholders.

He is regarded as an expert in several areas of clinical psychology, including Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy, the understanding and treatment of anxiety disorders in general, and more specifically in OCD, Hoarding Disorder, Panic and Agoraphobia and Health Anxiety. He also has expertise in Health Psychology. His interests also extend to the mechanism of change in psychological therapy and transdiagnostic factors. He has published more than 400 articles and chapters.

He is registered with the HCPC as both a Health and Clinical Psychologist and is similarly Chartered with the BPS. He was recipient of several prizes including two different Aaron T Beck awards and the British Psychological Society Monte Shapiro Award. Paul has served with NICE in several capacities, including guidelines groups.  He is Patron of, and clinical adviser to, OCD and anxiety disorder charities. His main research interests include the study of cognitive (appraisal) and behavioural (safety seeking) factors in the understanding and treatment of anxiety disorders. He has led CBT skills training both nationally and throughout the world.

Dr. Rachel Manser trained as a Clinical Psychologist with Oxford University.  She has worked across many NHS settings over the last 20 years as a Clinical Psychologist including IAPT, AMHTs, EIS and inpatient settings. She has also worked as a therapist on two research trials for people with a bipolar disorder diagnosis using imagery based CBT as well as currently working on the Talking with Voices II trial for people distressed by voice hearing.  Rachel has extensive experience supervising and teaching CBT.  She currently works as a Clinical Psychologist in the Oxfordshire Early Intervention in Psychosis service.  Rachel works in OCTC as a supervisor, trainer and is bipolar curriculum lead on OCTC’s post graduate certificate in Enhanced CBT: psychosis and bipolar disorder.

Rich is a senior cognitive behavioural therapist specialising in CBT for psychosis. He has 20 years’ experience working in various Community Mental Health Teams. This includes Assertive Outreach, Recovery and Early Intervention for Psychosis Teams.  With a background in Social Work, Rich found his passion for CBT in 2016 studying at OCTC. He was awarded a distinction from the University of Oxford in the PG Diploma CBT for Psychosis and Bipolar in 2018. He now works part time for OCTC as a tutor and supervisor for the PG Certificate in Enhanced CBT for Psychosis and Bipolar and is a BABCP accredited CBT therapist with the Psychological Therapies Service in Swindon working in the Psychosis & Bipolar Pathway. 

Dr Sarah Lack is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist in an NHS adult community mental health team. She qualified in 2009, and is a BABCP accredited CBT psychotherapist and Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She completed the OCTC PGCert in CBT for Psychological Trauma and Personality Development in 2014. Since then she has gathered extensive experience of teaching and supervising CBT and is now Deputy Lead for this course. Sarah has worked in Community Mental Health Teams, Psychological Therapies Services, Talking Therapies for anxiety and depression, acute hospitals and a specialist NHS trauma service. Sarah was course tutor at the Oxford Institute of Clinical Psychology Training and Research from 2020-2023, supervising doctoral research projects focused on CBT and PTSD presentations. Sarah was the Programme Lead for national CBT Top Up training funded by NHSE to support CBT competence and BABCP accreditation within the clinical psychology profession. Since 2023 Sarah has been a member of the CBT Practitioner Accreditation & Registration Committee (PARC).

Sarah Mansfield is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with over 15 years experience working with psychosis in the NHS. She has worked in a variety of NHS settings including Child & Adolescent, Community Adult, Acute Care and First Episode in Psychosis services. Sarah is a BABCP accredited practitioner and supervisor specialising in CBT for Psychosis and trauma treatments. Sarah currently holds a clinical position in a community mental health team alongside offering consultation, supervision and training on a part time basis with OCTC. Sarah has worked on a number of national CBT for Psychosis research trials and is interested in the ongoing development of CBT for Psychosis and third wave CBT including Compassion Focused Therapy.

Sarah Rakovshik is the Director of the University of Oxford/ OCTC Postgraduate CBT Programme and Deputy Director of OCTC. She is an experienced therapist who has worked with a wide range of clinical disorders in both adults and children.  Her clinical interests include treatment of co-morbidity and complex presentations, as well as in the potentially positive effects of adverse life events. She holds a D.Phil. from Oxford University’s Department of Psychiatry. Her research has focused on training methods and their effects on therapists’ competence and patients’ outcomes. She has had an international role as a trainer, supervisor and consultant for CBT training programmes and research projects.

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Tom trained as a Counselling Psychologist at Roehampton University and completed the Postgraduate Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapies at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Kings College London.

He joined Oxford Health Specialist Psychological Intervention Centre (OHSPIC) and the Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre (OCTC) after 10 years at South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, working at Southwark Talking Therapies and the Centre for Anxiety Disorders and Trauma.

Tom specialises in cognitive behavioural therapy for anxiety disorders, with special interests and expertise in misophonia and hoarding disorder.

Tom also provides training and supervision to trainees on OCTC’s range of courses and those completing Oxford University’s Clinical Psychology Doctorate, as well supervising external professionals and delivering workshops and webinars to community teams and third sector organisations.

Victoria Bream trained as a Clinical Psychologist at the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, and completed the Postgraduate Diploma in Cognitive Therapy at the OCTC. She joined OCTC in 2019 after 15 years working in the Centre for Anxiety Disorders and Trauma at the Maudsley Hospital, specialising in using CBT with people with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and related problems, and hoarding disorder. She has provided supervision and teaching to a wide range of trainees and professionals in the NHS, and in local authorities. She is a co-author of the self-help book ‘Break Free from OCD’ the clinician guide ‘CBT for OCD’ and most recently the self-help book ‘Break Free from Maternal Anxiety’. Victoria is part of the team in the Oxford Health Specialist Psychological Intervention Centre (OHSPIC), an NHS national clinic offering specialist CBT.