OCD Southern California is dedicated to providing you with information on free and low-cost events happening virtually or in the Southern California area! We appreciate so many of you for always joining us at these events, being part of our mailing list, and sharing our events with others. If you have not been to an event for OCD yet, we hope one of these three is your first–and we look forward to seeing familiar faces. If you have any questions on these events, please email us at: info@ocdsocal.org and we hope to see you soon!
The International OCD Foundation is hosting their annual Online OCD Conference on Saturday, November 23 – Sunday, November 24, 2024! This event is virtual and for those with OCD, their family members and loved ones, therapists who work with OCD, and anyone else wanted to learn more about the disorder.
The Online OCD Conference offers the opportunity for the global OCD community to connect, share, and learn from each other in this event filled with talks, discussion groups, and networking opportunities.
All the sessions will be available to watch for 60 days following the event and the cost for the entire conference, and the ability to watch all presentations after the event, for $90.
To register, and for more information, please visit: http://www.iocdf.org/onlineocdconference!
Please join OCD Southern California and the local OCD community on Saturday, December 7, from 1pm to 5pm PST. We are holding a free community event in person at the beautiful Costa Mesa Marriott!
The holiday party will be held in one of the hotel’s banquet rooms and on the outside patio overlooking a beautiful lake. The event is an opportunity for you and your loved ones to meet others in the OCD community, talk, eat and drink, and play fun games, including group trivia and an opportunity drawing!
OCD SoCal will provide refreshments, drinks, prizes and holiday music. It will be an opportunity to mingle and meet others in the community. We will also have a dedicated room for kids that will include fun activities and crafts, so bring them as well!
The event is free, including food, drinks, and parking. Come meet others in the community and enjoy a few hours of holiday fun with people you may already know and new friends as well! This event is hosted by the OCD Southern California Board of Directors. Feel free to share this event with anyone you feel would be interested and bring as many people with you as you’d like to the event!
To register for this free event, and for more information, please register here!
Our Saturday, December 14th, the virtual, free Family and Loved One’s OCD Support Group will feature author and clinician Jon Hershfield, MFT, author of “When a Family Member Has OCD,” one of the books we often recommend. Mr. Hershfield has written many books for the family and loved ones of someone with the disorder, as well as for people with OCD. Please invite your loved ones to join us for the virtual event. Jon will be available for the Q&A session following his presentation. The support group is 2 hours on Zoom and runs from 11 AM to 1 PM PST. To join, simply email: info@ocdsocal.org (if you are not already on our mailing list), and in the subject line, let us know you are requesting the link for this support group and include any email addresses you would like us to send the Zoom link to in the body paragraph of the email!
About Jon Hershfield, MFT: Jon Hershfield, MFT, is the director of The Center for OCD and Anxiety, Sheppard Pratt’s outpatient treatment center for individuals with obsessive-compulsive and anxiety-related disorders and director of the OCD Program at The Retreat, where Sheppard Pratt offers residential treatment for those who can benefit from a higher level of care. He is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and is a Maryland Approved Licensed Clinical Marriage and Family Therapist Supervisor and AAMFT Approved Supervisor. Jon is also a member of the Scientific and Clinical Advisory Board of the International OCD Foundation and on the faculty of the foundation’s Behavioral Therapy Training Institute.
Jon founded The OCD and Anxiety Center of Greater Baltimore in 2015; the practice joined Sheppard Pratt in 2020. Prior to founding The OCD and Anxiety Center of Greater Baltimore, Jon served as the Associate Director of the UCLA Pediatric OCD Intensive Outpatient Program at Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital and was a psychotherapist at the OCD Center of Los Angeles. He is the author of six books on the treatment of OCD using mindfulness and cognitive-behavioral therapy, is a regularly featured speaker at mental health conferences and webinars and is the curator and moderator of Sheppard Pratt’s OCD and Anxiety Lecture Series.
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We hope to see you at one, or all, of these events. Please feel free to share these events with anyone in your life that would be interested in joining as well. Thank you from OCD SoCal!
