Medical Director
Dr. Tiona Praylow, MD, Medical Director
Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Specialist
Dr. Tiona Guess Praylow is a Columbia, SC native and a summa cum laude baccalaureate of Duke University in Durham, NC where she was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. She received her dual MD, MPH medical degree from Duke University School of Medicine and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill respectively. She completed residencies in General and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina Hospitals, and is board certified in both. Upon completion of her residency training, Dr. Praylow returned to her native Columbia, SC where she served in many capacities as a psychiatrist in multiple outpatient and inpatient settings. In 2021, she launched Resiliency Empowerment Strategies, a telepsych and consulting agency focused on triumphing over trauma through clinical excellence, caregiver education, and community empowerment. Shortly after her launch of REST, she relocated to GA where she served as Chief Medical Officer at Riverwoods Behavioral Health in Riverdale, GA for 2 years. As she continues to expand her expertise in healing trauma, she has obtained certification on Heart Math Biofeedback and the Safe and Sound Protocol, a listening intervention created by Stephen Porges based in his Polyvagal Theory. As Medical Director at Three Rivers Midlands Residential Facility, she aspires to elevate and empower young people and the care team through an emphasis on excellence, empathy, and evidence-based mind-body interventions.
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