Dr Lynne Drummond is an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at SW London and St George’s NHS Trust and Visiting Professor at the University of Hertfordshire.  She has worked in the area of OCD, anxiety, and mental health over the past 4 decades as both a clinician and researcher.  Publishing well over 100 articles in the academic press. […]

Dr. Jim Hagan is a Senior Research Fellow in Neurosciences at Sosei-Heptares, working on drug discovery programmes for neuropsychiatric indications. Previously, he was the CEO at GMEC, a not-for-profit company formed by the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, Imperial College, UCL, King’s College London and Queen Mary College London to foster biomedical translational research. He was […]

Dr. Carolyn Rodriguez is assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Science at Stanford University, School of Medicine. She utilises her training as a psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and clinical researcher to innovate rapid-acting treatments to relieve the suffering of patients with severe mental illnesses, including Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. More about Carolyn. Rodriguez Lab.

Prof Trevor Robbins is a professor of cognitive neuroscience with an international reputation in the fields of cognitive neuroscience, behavioural neuroscience and psychopharmacology. He is Director of the University of Cambridge’s Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute (BCNI) and is leading a multi-million-pound research study into the neuroscience of OCD.

Nick is a serial social entrepreneur with 15+ years experience in medical charities. Most recently, he founded and led a successful consortium developing a treatment for Black Bone Disease, an ultra rare genetic disease affecting his children. Nick is also an OCD patient.

Sean Fletcher has been broadcasting on the BBC, ITV and Sky for more than 15 years. His journalism includes the Panorama investigation, Kids in Crisis, which asked whether the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services are fit for purpose. He also presents on Countryfile, Inside Out and Good Morning Britain. Sean’s son has OCD.

Sheena is a music specialist, working with children who have learning and communication difficulties. She is also a mother of two daughters and a son. One of her daughters has had OCD for 20 years. Having witnessed how destructive and debilitating OCD can be, Sheena is keen to support research into new and effective treatments, […]

Jordan first started experiencing the symptoms of OCD at 19 and had a long and difficult road to recovery.  He hopes to help make this road an easier and shorter one for those with OCD by volunteering with Orchard OCD, thereby supporting research into new and better treatments.

Yasmin is a therapeutic counsellor with an interest in delivering and developing evidence-based psychological interventions for anxiety and OCD-related disorders. She has suffered with OCD for most of her life but has found the therapeutic help she has received from others, particularly in the form of talking therapies, invaluable and life-changing. Yasmin wishes to help […]

Lynn is a mother of twin daughters, Charlotte and Samantha (aged 29), mental health counsellor and author of Hope with Eating Disorders 2nd edition, Hope with OCD, Hope with Depression, Hope with Anxiety (to be published 19th November 2020) and Fundamentals: A Guide for Parents, Teachers and Carers on Mental Health and Self-Esteem. Samantha is […]

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