Description:
The holiday season is right around the corner! Please join us for a virtual get-together for adults with Tourette Syndrome and other Tic Disorders. The Mix, Tics, & Mingle will be a chance to celebrate the holiday season, spend time with others, and play fun games together in a relaxed environment! We look forward to celebrating with you!
Charles E. Galyon, PhD
Charles E. Galyon, PhD is a Licensed Psychologist and co-owner of Knoxville Behavioral and Mental Health Services. He serves as co-chair of the OCD Training Committee for the Association of Contextual Behavioral Sciences and is an active member of a statewide professional group out of Vanderbilt University Medical School for the Center of Excellence for Tourette Syndrome.
In practice, Dr. Galyon works primarily with children, teenagers, and their families to address concerns related to Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Tourette’s and Tic Disorders, Functional Neurological Disorder (FND), and Anxiety Disorders. Dr. Galyon also has lived experience as an individual with Tourette’s and a parent of a child with Tourette’s. Dr. Galyon has a background in behavior analysis, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). He continues to develop professional trainings and materials to help professionals in working compulsive behavioral disorders (including Tourette’s, OCD, BFRB’s, and FND). He is an active member of the Association of Contextual Behavioral Sciences, the Panera Unlimited Sips Club, and the Knoxville Area Psychological Association. Dr. Galyon also likes cookies and philosophy.
Darin M. Bush (Tourette Tiger)
The Tourette Tiger, aka Darin M. Bush, has worked with the Tourette’s syndrome (TS) community in various roles for 30 years. He has tutored, lectured, taught classes, run workshops, led panels, and facilitated support groups. He has worked with the Tourette’s associations of the United States and Canada. He has also written short stories & jokes, invented words, designed t-shirts, created theories, and blogged about TS and its comorbid disorders. He has several neurological disorders, including the “big three” of TS, ADHD, and OCD. He also has sensory, handwriting, and reading problems, as well as a strange learning disability (LD) that he loves to discuss. He passed some of this on to his daughter. He worked full-time at Parkaire Consultants–a clinic with expertise in treating LD and neurological disorders. He worked as an academic tutor, specializing in teaching math and science to children with LD, ADHD, & OCD. He also developed and taught a class for educators on teaching math to special education children. He contributed to the textbook Teaching the Tiger and its sequel, Tigers, Too. During this time, he served on the board of directors for the Tourette’s Syndrome Association of Georgia. Darin led several peer support groups for adults with or parents of neurological disorders.
In 2009, he published Tiger Trails: An Unconventional Introduction to Tourette’s Syndrome, in an attempt to organize the vocabulary used with TS and everything that can go with it, especially OCD and ADHD. He describes this handbook, intended to be shared with family, friends, and co-workers, as “the words for the first 90 minutes of the TS conversation”. He currently co-leads an ADHD adult peer support group through Parkaire Consultants and participates in a Tourette’s peer support group that aspires to become a TAA chapter. Darin is also a published genre fiction author and speaks at sci-fi and fantasy conventions including DragonCon. He lives close to Atlanta, GA, with his wife and two very yappy dogs.
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