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    Tiona Guess Praylow, MD, MPH

    Medical Director
    Three Rivers Midlands
    Columbia, South Carolina

    Dr. Tiona Guess Praylow is a Columbia, SC native. She was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa at Duke University and graduated summa cum laude. She received her dual MD, MPH medical degrees from Duke University School of Medicine and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill respectively. She completed residency and fellowship in General and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the UNC Hospitals, and is double-board certified. Dr. Praylow practices from her T-CHIRP framework, Trauma Cognizant Heart Inspired Restorative Practice, focused on cultural humility, holistic healing, and exuberant embodiment in her role as Medical Director at Three Rivers Midlands Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility and her coaching and consulting agency Resiliency Empowerment Strategies (REST). T-CHIRP teaches that recovery from trauma is a holistic mind-body-spirit experience that amplifies all the Colors of Our Song Inside, which is the title of her children’s book highlighting how embracing their unique identities helps children heal. She continues to cultivate strategies for empowering resiliency through Heart Math Biofeedback, the Safe and Sound Protocol, Emotional Freedom Technique, breathwork practices, and neurofeedback. She is passionate about being a voice for youth emerging from traumatic life experiences serving as a subject matter expert for community agencies and schools. She is an innovation igniting speaker who inspires and equips audiences to invest in and cultivate their Mental WELLth, a rich physical, emotional, and spiritual life experience, through simple science-backed, heart inspired strategies.

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