Lori Johnson

Lori Johnson, LPC Lori is a Licensed Professional Counselor who comes to Beacon after working in community counseling for several years. She is pleased to work with clients through a tele-health platform or in face to face settings at Beacon. Lori has experience with children, adolescents, and adults. Her passion is to help restore hope and joy in their journey, while providing effective strategies to regulate the emotions that cause difficulty with relationships, professional life, and Life Goals. Lori has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Lee University and a Master of Science in Community Counseling from Georgia State University.

While training for her Master’s, she attended a joint program at what is now known as Richmont Graduate University (formerly PSI), where she earned a Certificate in Christian Counseling. This training provided the passion for Lori to integrate biblical truths into the counseling relationship, where it is desired. For over 24 years, Lori applied her training to a ministry setting. In 2016, she began the journey toward her professional licensure to enrich her counseling practice with evidence- based methods.

Lori has a passion to help believers know who they are in Christ and appropriate their values into choices that bring life and purpose in their individual or family circumstances. She primarily uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy approaches, Solution Focused Approaches, Internal Family Systems approaches, and other researched based approaches with her clients. Lori works with clients in the Atlanta location and the North Atlanta/Bartow Area.