Lacey Johnson, MA, AMFT
It’s time to believe in your truth, and finally feel it in your bones.
I offer more than therapy; I offer sanctuary.
I’m Lacey–a therapist, mom, wife, trauma warrior, and fellow imperfect human who’s always willing to see the world through your eyes.
With curiosity and heart, I’ll lean into your most vulnerable aches, longings, and questions, while honoring every complexity and sacred shift along the way.
I specialize in burnout, trauma, wounded self-esteem, and the relational patterns that sneakily run our lives from behind the scenes. My approach is artful, compassionate, and energizing, while delivering science-backed tools with creative flow and soulful warmth.
More sanctuary than your typical clinical hour, this is an invitation to return to your wholeness. It’s a nervous system exhale and reset, where all parts of you are allowed to stretch out, speak openly, and breathe freely.
So, if you’re tired of surviving a life that looks okay on paper but feels hollow inside, let’s build the one you deserve.
How different your life might feel if you believed this:
Seeking help isn’t a sign of weakness; it’s evidence of your strength.
At the heart of my work is the stubborn belief that transformation is always on the table.
Long before I became a trauma therapist, I was a client. I know what it feels like to be chin-deep in pain, wondering if it’ll ever end.
With a personal history shaped by tragic loss and early grief, I’ve traveled the divide between a trauma-driven and trauma-informed life. I know what it’s like to survive in silence, and I’ve discovered what’s possible when we finally unburden our pain and give our wholeness the breath it deserves.
Today, as a trauma-focused therapist, I believe this with my whole being: As long as you're still breathing, transformation is on the table, should you choose to reach for it.
No matter what you've been told. No matter what you’ve carried. No matter how long it's lived inside you.
In our work together, I’ll advocate for your aliveness, your clarity, your self-trust, whatever that uniquely means for you. I’ll help you come home to the power that never left, but was muted behind the noise of protection and pain.
Yes, change is possible. And yes, it’s possible for you.
This is what it feels like to work with me…
I’m here to help you reclaim your peace, your voice, your presence, your life.
My love for humans led me here—first as a seeker, then as a storyteller, and now as a therapist.
Before earning my master’s degree, becoming a trauma-focused therapist, and opening the doors of Power Haven Therapy, I spent over a decade as a nationally recognized mental health and relationships journalist. I wrote for platforms including Oprah Daily, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, and Apple News, translating cutting-edge research and soulful insights into powerful, real-world solutions.
I collaborated with some of the most influential voices in mental health and personal growth: spiritual thought leaders like Deepak Chopra, Gabby Bernstein, and Julia Cameron, neuroscientists like Dr. Caroline Leaf, and psychologists like the late Dr. Edith Eger, best known for her leadership as a Holocaust survivor and PTSD specialist, and Dr. Shefali Tsabary, whose trailblazing work on conscious parenting has invited healing for countless families on an international scale.
Together, we helped bring attachment science, emotional intelligence, and inner child work into the mainstream.
But eventually, I felt called to midwife lasting transformation, not just describe it.
Today, after having fallen in love with being a therapist, my therapeutic approach blends science-backed modalities like internal family systems (IFS), restoration therapy (RT), Gottman Method, and Brainspotting with sacred presence, intuition, and deep respect for the body’s wisdom. This is therapy for those who’ve carried too much, too long—who sense there’s more for them than a life of chronic burnout, unhealed pain, and survival-mode relationships.
In session, we listen for your body’s wise signals—the ones that live behind the static of your protection and wounds. We bring completion and restore safety to your nervous system. We rebuild your sense of being within the world. And, most profoundly, we welcome every part of you home.
About your therapist
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Couples Therapy
Gottman Institute
Gottman Level 1
Treating Affairs & Trauma
Restoration Therapy Level 1
Prepare/Enrich Certified
Trauma, Burnout & Self-Esteem
Brainspotting Phase 1
Cognitive Processing for PTSD
Healing Trauma With Compassion-Based Techniques (The Awake Network)
National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine
Advanced Master's Program on the Treatment of Trauma
Applying Internal Family Systems (Parts Work) for Treating Complex Trauma
Women’s Issues
Clinical Internship, Ready Nest Counseling, Perinatal Mental Health, 2024-2025
Provided holistic support and a spirit of empowerment for aspiring, bereaved, and emerging mothers navigating issues including postpartum depression and anxiety, birth trauma, body image, infertility, pregnancy loss, mom burnout, and parenting adjustment
Nutritional Neuroscience for Chronic Stress, Illness & Trauma
Currently enrolled in the National Academy of Neuronutrition Certified Practitioner Program
Support brain and nervous system health and agility beyond talk therapy
Provides empowerment and understanding about how prolonged burnout, chronic stress, and trauma change the brain’s adaptability, functioning, and nutritional demands
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Bachelor of Science in Journalism
Belmont University, Nashville, TN
Master of Marriage & Family Therapy
Lipscomb University, Nashville, TN
COMFTE accredited program
Associate Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Tennessee License #2811
Under the Supervision of Emily Pardy , LMFT (#1457)
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Member of the Tennessee Association of Marriage & Family Therapists (AAMFT & TNAMFT)
2023-Current
Delta Kappa (International Marriage & Family Therapy Honor Society)
2024-Current
Therapy with me is…
…where your pain is believed, and exciting possibilities emerge from the places you feared were lost or stuck.
…where protective patterns finally unclench, your nervous system exhales, and your spark is felt again.
…where you’re allowed to rest, to roar, to rise and, ultimately, return to being whole.
…a powerful reclamation of the person you’ve always been beneath the heartaches and traumas that changed you.
Therapy with me is not…
…yet another place where you have to perform, please, downplay, or shrink.
…venting or rehashing pain without meaningful exploration or empowered movement.
…surface-level coping skills that stop before reaching the deeper wounds that’ve waited a long time to be heard and healed.
…about blaming or shaming yourself into change. Because you’ve never needed to be fixed; you need to be witnessed.
