Tic disorders (TD) are a group of developmental neuropsychiatric conditions in which an individual experiences motor and/or vocal tics beginning around the age of 5-8 years (Bitsko et al., 2014). TD are characterized by tics, which are brief, involuntary, non-rhythmic, recurrent, rapid, stereotyped motor movements or vocalisations that are often triggered by aversive interoceptive experiences (Ganos et al., 2015). TD are expressed across a continuum of severity and duration (Muller-Vahl, Sambrani, & Jakubovski, 2019) and include provisional tic disorders (PTD, tics present for less than a year), persistent/chronic tic disorders (CTD, isolated motor or vocal tics that last over 1 year) and Tourette syndrome (TS, motor and at least one vocal tic lasting more than a year; American Psychiatric Association, 2013). These diagnoses are categorized on the spectrum of TD with PTD often being less intensive and CTD and TS potentially being more severe (Muller-Vahl, Sambrani, et al., 2019). As many as 90% of