Dr Victoria Bream

Clinic Lead and Consultant Clinical Psychologist

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 Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre (OCTC).

She joined OHSPIC and the OCTC in 2019 after 15 years working in the Centre for Anxiety Disorders and Trauma (CADAT) 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 across the country to a wide range of trainees and professionals in the NHS, and in local authorities.

She has contributed to numerous research publications and is a co-author of the self-help books Break Free from OCD, Break Free from Maternal Anxiety and the clinician guide CBT for OCD.

Media

Let’s Talk About CBT: CBT for Hoarding

Self-help books
  • Challacombe, F., Bream Oldfield, V., & Salkovskis, P. M. (2011). Break Free From OCD: overcoming obsessive compulsive disorder with CBT. Random House.
  • Challacombe, F., Green, C., & Bream, V. (2022). Break Free from Maternal Anxiety: A Self-Help Guide for Pregnancy, Birth and the First Postnatal Year. Cambridge University Press.
Selected Publications
  • Stapley, T., Taylor, T., & Bream, V. (2022). Beyond exposure therapy: formulation-based therapy treating a fear of urinary incontinence–a case study. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 50(2), 252-256.
  • Gledhill, L., Veale, D., Drury, H., Bream, V., & Onwumere, J. (2022). Response inhibition training for compulsive acquisition in hoarding: A multiple baseline single case design. Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders, 35, 100745.
  • Sookman, D., Phillips, K. A., Anholt, G. E., Bhar, S., Bream, V., Challacombe, F. L., … & Veale, D. (2021). Knowledge and competency standards for specialized cognitive behavior therapy for adult obsessive-compulsive disorder. Psychiatry research, 303, 113752.
  • Gledhill, L. J., Bream, V., Drury, H., & Onwumere, J. (2021). Information processing in hoarding disorder: A systematic review of the evidence. Journal of Affective Disorders Reports, 3, 100039.
  • Bream, V., Challacombe, F., Palmer, A., & Salkovskis, P. (2017). Cognitive behaviour therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder. Oxford University Press.
  • Hambrook, D., Taylor, T., & Bream, V. (2017). Cognitive behavioural therapy for paruresis or “shy bladder syndrome”: a case study. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 45(1), 79-84.
  • Gordon, O. M., Salkovskis, P. M., & Bream, V. (2016). The impact of obsessive compulsive personality disorder on cognitive behaviour therapy for obsessive compulsive disorder. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 44(4), 444-459.
  • Zivor, M., Salkovskis, P. M., Oldfield, V. Bream., & Kushnir, J. (2013). Formulation in cognitive behavior therapy for obsessive–compulsive disorder: Aligning therapists, perceptions and practice. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 20(2), 143.
  • Gordon, O. M., Salkovskis, P. M., Oldfield, V. Bream., & Carter, N. (2013). The association between obsessive compulsive disorder and obsessive compulsive personality disorder: prevalence and clinical presentation. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 52(3), 300-315.
  • Gordon, O. M., Salkovskis, P. M., & Oldfield, V. Bream. (2013). Beliefs and experiences in hoarding. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 27(3), 328-339.
  • Zivor, M., Salkovskis, P. M., & Oldfield, V. B. (2013). If formulation is the heart of cognitive behavioural therapy, does this heart rule the head of CBT therapists?. The Cognitive Behaviour Therapist, 6.
  • Oldfield, V. Bream., Salkovskis, P. M., & Taylor, T. (2011). Time‐intensive cognitive behaviour therapy for obsessive‐compulsive disorder: A case series and matched comparison group. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 50(1), 7-18.
  • Zivor, M., Salkovskis, P., & Oldfield, V. Bream (2011). Do we need to formulate in cognitive behavioural therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder?. Psicoterapia Cognitiva e Comportamentale, 17(3), 359-368.
  • Lomax, C. L., Oldfield, V. Bream., & Salkovskis, P. M. (2009). Clinical and treatment comparisons between adults with early-and late-onset obsessive-compulsive disorder. Behaviour research and therapy, 47(2), 99-104.
  • Bream, V., & Buchanan, A. (2003). Distress among children whose separated or divorced parents cannot agree arrangements for them. British Journal of Social Work, 33(2), 227-238.
  • Flouri, E., Buchanan, A., & Bream, V. (2002). Adolescents’ perceptions of their fathers’ involvement: Significance to school attitudes. Psychology in the Schools, 39(5), 575-582.
  • Buchanan, A., Hunt, J., Bretherton, H., & Bream, V. (2001). Families in conflict: Perspectives of children and parents on the Family Court Welfare Service. Policy Press.
  • Buchanan, A., & Bream, V. (2001). Do Some Separated Parents Who Cannot Agree Arrangements for Their Children Need a More Therapeutic rather than Forensic Service. Child & Fam. LQ, 13, 353.
Research

Victoria Bream (researchgate.net)

Page last reviewed: 28 November, 2023