About Us

Hope Johnson, Founder of Peace, Love & Power Counseling and Consulting Services LLC is a long time resident of Providence, RI. She grew up in South Providence attending public schools in the city. She witnessed and personally experiencing many of the same challenges in her family that the community experiences such as trauma, substance abuse, poverty, losing family and friends to violence and incarceration.

Hope became a teen mother while attending Hope High school. She struggled through raising her three oldest children while obtaining her GED and completing her undergraduate degree in Social Work at Temple University in Philadelphia. Hope went on to have three more children and obtained her Master’s Degree in Social Work from Boston University in 2009 and became a licensed clinician immediately upon graduation.

Hope has over 25 years in the field of Social Work has worked in a variety of settings including child welfare, adoption, community services, schools and hospitals. She has provided counseling and social work services to a diverse population that includes children, youth, families, single mothers, teen mothers, elderly, and adults from all socioeconomic backgrounds. She has provided mental health services to assist her clients in dealing with depression, anxiety, trauma, PTSD, substance abuse, etc.

Hope still resides in the City with her husband Robert “Beanie” Johnson and their children. Together they run a non-profit United Society Association’s that hosts the boxing program Southside Athletic Club out of Davey Lopes Recreation Center (boxing program will be re-opening soon). She currently works for the Providence School District as a Social Worker. 

Hope is committed to increasing access to culturally sensitive mental health services in the South Providence area and mentoring new Social Workers to provide counseling in the community. 

Hope is taking new clients. She specializes in Womens issues and works with adults, couples and teens.