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On Saturday, November 7, and Sunday, November 8, 2026, the global, Online OCD Conference, hosted by OCD Southern California, will featured nearly 60 presentations and events! Register here: https://ocdconference.eventbrite.com. On Sunday, November 8th, from 3pm to 4:15pm PST, we will feature our Sunday wrap-up event with Anxiety Club that will conclude our 2-day conference!
Learn more about Anxiety Club, their conference presentation, and the featured Anxiety Club guests that will be at the Online OCD Conference:
Presentation title: ANXIETY CLUB: How a Hilarious and Impactful Documentary Demonstrates the Need for Innovative Mental Health Care for Anxious Artists
Film website: https://www.anxietyclubmovie.com
The recipient of Mental Health America’s Media Award, ANXIETY CLUB is a new documentary that provides a humorous and heartfelt look at anxiety through the lens of some of today’s most brilliant comedians. With rare access to private therapy sessions, the film follows comedian Tiffany Jenkins as she undergoes exposure therapy for her OCD, capturing the profound changes her treatment brings about. Tiffany and comedians Joe List, Marc Maron, Aparna Nancherla, Mark Normand, Baron Vaughn, and Eva Victor offer candid reflections on their relationship with anxiety through standup, sketch videos, exclusive interviews, and more. Watch the trailer for ANXIETY CLUB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeHOaA93-M4.
Our session includes a screening of the first 30 minutes of the film followed by a powerful conversation featuring the director of the film Wendy Lobel, comedians and featured participants Baron Vaughn and Tiffany Jenkins, and therapist and featured film participant Natalie Noel, LMHC. Lobel, Vaughn, Jenkins and Noel will discuss how living with OCD or an anxiety disorder can affect artistic pursuits and the importance of access to mental healthcare for artists and people with mental illnesses. This session is accessible to all audiences: people with lived experience of OCD & anxiety, mental health professionals and more.
TIFFANY JENKINS
Website: https://jugglingthejenkins.com/about-me/
Tiffany Jenkins of “Juggling the Jenkins” is a New York Times Bestselling Author, Comedian, Speaker, and Podcast Host. She has over 9 million followers across her social media platforms and has amassed more than a billion total video views.
Although best known for her comedy, Tiffany is incredibly passionate about bringing awareness to mental illness and addiction. She speaks at high schools, jails, rehab centers, and conferences, sharing her personal experiences with addiction, recovery, mental health, and life in a way that is both honest and humorous.
Tiffany is the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir A Clean Mess (2025) and the national bestseller High Achiever (2019) and has been featured on national television shows including The Today Show, The Doctors, and Good Morning America.
She has headlined two comedy tours, My Name Is NOT Mom and This Show Is Awkward AF, performing for audiences across the country with her signature blend of humor and relatable storytelling.
BARON VAUGHN
Website: https://www.baronvaughn.com
Baron Vaughn is an actor, writer, director, and comedian. He’s best known as “Bud” on the Netflix Original Series, Grace & Frankie, sharing the screen with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin. Baron also voiced “Tom Servo” in the recent seasons of cult-hit, Mystery Science Theater 3000.
He co-created and co-hosted the groundbreaking Comedy Central showcase variety series The New Negroes with Baron Vaughn and Open Mike Eagle which shined a light on both established and rising Black artists in comedy and music. Baron’s deeply personal project, Fatherless, directed by the award-winning Dawn Porter, explored the impact of absent fathers on families and communities while he also endeavored to finally connect with his own absent father.
As a comedian, Baron has been entertaining audiences for more than 20 years. He’s been seen on Comedy Central’s The Half Hour and The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail, as well as on HBO’s 2 Dope Queens, and TBS’ Conan. Baron has performed at many renowned festivals including HBO’s US Comedy Arts Festival, Just for Laughs, Life Is Beautiful, SXSW, and the New York Comedy Festival. He has two comedy recordings, Raised by Cable and Blaxistential Crisis, both available on all streaming platforms.
Baron just concluded the world premiere run of his solo show Cycle Breaker commissioned by the Geva Theatre in Rochester, NY.
NATALIE NOEL, LMHC
Website: https://anxietyocdspecialists.com/natalie-noel-lmhc/
Natalie Noel is a licensed mental health counselor in both Florida and New York, and she is based in the Tampa Bay area. As the owner of Anxiety & OCD Treatment Specialists, Natalie specializes in the behavioral treatment (CBT and ERP) of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), OCD-related disorders, anxiety disorders, perinatal and postpartum anxiety. She provides assertiveness training for those struggling with creating and maintaining boundaries.
From 2014 to 2017, Natalie received extensive training from world-renowned experts in OCD and related disorders at the Rogers Behavioral Health System. During this time, she gained invaluable experience treating individuals with severe cases of OCD and anxiety disorders. Natalie led the Partial Hospitalization Program for OCD at Rogers Behavioral Health in Tampa and previously led the Intensive Outpatient Program for OCD at Rogers Memorial Hospital in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. In 2014, she earned her Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Houston-Clear Lake.
Natalie was also the founding president of the OCD Central & South Florida affiliate of the International OCD Foundation (IOCDF). The IOCDF is dedicated to raising awareness about OCD, combating the stigma associated with the disorder, and training providers in Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) to ensure that specialized care is more accessible nationwide.
WENDY LOBEL
Website: https://www.anxietyclubmovie.com/media-1
Emmy Award–winning filmmaker Wendy Lobel made her feature directorial debut with ANXIETY CLUB, a humorous and heartfelt documentary about anxiety, told through the lens of comedians.
ANXIETY CLUB premiered at DOC NYC Film Festival and has screened at more than 45 film and comedy festivals. The film has received 12 awards, including Mental Health America’s Media Award. Drawing on her own experience with anxiety, Wendy brings empathy and authenticity to the film.
With more than three decades of experience in television and documentary production, Wendy’s work has been featured on PBS, A&E, VH1, MSNBC, Nickelodeon, and more. She produced more than 25 episodes of the acclaimed children’s series Nick News with Linda Ellerbee, earning an Emmy Award for Forgotten But Not Gone: Kids, HIV & AIDS and producing Worried Sick: Living with Anxiety, about teens struggling with anxiety. Selected credits include the documentary specials Inside TV Land: Primetime Politics and MSNBC Investigates: The Mating Game, the PBS short Women in Science & Technology, and the short film The Power of Positivity.
Wendy is a member of the Television Academy and the Producers Guild of America and serves as Vice President of Angelight Films, a nonprofit production company that gives children with brain tumors the opportunity to star in and help produce their own short films.
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