Nicole Connolly, Ph.D.

08/02/2025

Join us for the 5th Annual Santa Clarita OCD Awareness Walk & Community Event!
🗓 Saturday, October 18th · 10:00 AM
📍 Fair Oaks Park, 17468 Honey Maple St, Santa Clarita, CA
🎉 FREE and open to everyone! (Registration required)

Do you or someone you love live with OCD? Whether you're a parent, partner, sibling, friend, or individual on your own journey—this event is for YOU.
Come walk with us, hear powerful recovery stories, join educational and family-friendly activities, and connect with a compassionate community that gets it.
With the support of OCD Southern California and the International OCD Foundation (IOCDF) we hope to make this our biggest and most impactful walk yet!
Hosted by OCD Awareness SCV, a dedicated group of parents and individuals living with OCD, we are on a mission to:
✅ Raise awareness
✅ Build support systems
✅ Create community

📩 Questions? Email us at parentocdgroup@gmail.com
Let’s walk together for understanding, support, and hope! 💙

International OCD Foundation OCD SoCal

02/07/2025

🚀 Looking for your first work experience? 🌟

Our Spring-Summer Work Experience Program is the perfect opportunity to gain valuable skills, attend development workshops and events, and grow in a supportive environment!

💼 Limited Spots! We’re accepting the first 50 applications—don’t wait!

📅 Applications open February 18, 2025

For more info, contact Pablo Cevallos at 661-250-3705.

08/17/2021

Beth Richey Counseling

05/07/2021

May is Mental Health Awareness month. In these difficult pandemic times, many kids and adults have been struggling. If you are having a hard time with your child, these are some great things to keep in mind!

03/07/2021

If you or someone you know has a child who is bright but struggles with anxiety or other issues, then this virtual summit might be for you! There are quite a few excellent speakers lined up!

Help your bright child live their best life, even with learning, social, emotional or behavioral challenges.

01/22/2021

The Help Group is offering a really interesting virtual distinguished lecture event in February by Sir Simon Baron-Cohen that is worth checking out:

In The Pattern Seekers, Dr. Baron-Cohen posits that understanding autistic people — specifically their unstoppable drive to seek patterns, a characteristic of the condition — is the key to understanding both the ancient origins and the modern flowering of human creativity. He states, if “the h...

12/17/2020

Distracting yourself from anxiety seems like such a good idea in the moment, but it's usually not a good long-term strategy. This awesome video from Natasha Daniels explains why!

Whenever I ask what people do to cope with their OCD or anxiety, I almost always hear DISTRACTION. Most people’s go-to way to handle OCD or anxiety is to try...

10/09/2020

As the pandemic progresses and more stress keeps piling up, many people are finding themselves irritable and on edge. Small things seem to set us off in a way they wouldn’t have in the past. This article has a great discussion about why that happens and what we can do to cope.

10/06/2020

The UCLA PEERS Clinic is now enrolling participants for the UCLA College to Careers program! This program will run weekly via Telehealth. For more information, please contact us at peersclinic@ucla.edu or 310-267-3377!

09/29/2020

For parents of autistic kids, the Help Group is offering some various interesting after school enrichment programs virtually this fall. Check it out if you are looking for some additional activities for your child!

08/24/2020

The excellent UCLA PEERS program is now available in an online format!

We are excited to introduce the PEERS® online social skills class available to families worldwide! Groups for adolescents and young adults are now enrolling! For more information or to enroll, contact us at peersclinic@ucla.edu or 310-267-3377.

08/21/2020

UCLA CART presents: “The Science of Making Friends during COVID-19 for Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder: The UCLA PEERS Program”
Join UCLA CART for a virtual town hall with presentation and discussion by Dr. Elizabeth Laugeson, the founder and director of the UCLA PEERS Clinic. This event will be moderated by UCLA CART’s Dr. Amanda Gulsrud.
Date: September 2, 2020
Time: 12-1pm PST
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vDs_UIu2QxOcSuCKPKfBNw