TV One welcomes new lifestyle series, Life Therapy with AJ Johnson to the network on tonight – Tuesday, November 2 at 10:00PM ET/9C. This is a must-see life-coaching series shares an intimate look at the stories of individuals’ exposing their internal struggles in search of healing. Along with trained mental health professionals, Johnson taps into her natural instinct of nurturing people’s suffering to exude positivity in a genuine approach to improve individuals’ lives.

On the premiere episode of Life Therapy, AJ visits former model Antoinette Joyner whose career was prematurely ended by a diagnosis of Lupus. She opens up with Johnson on navigating her mother abandoning her and living with her disfigurement as a result of the disease. Viewers will get an in depth look at Joyner’s story and how AJ and Clinical Psychologist Dr. Alduan Tartt guide her through the acceptance process.

Adrienne-Joi Johnson (AJ Akua Johnson) is an American Actress, Television Producer, Life Coach, and Philanthropist. Since 1987, Johnson has become a cultural icon making many guest appearances on sitcoms, television dramas and iconic films including House Party and Baby Boy. Most recently, in collaboration with the US Embassy, Johnson completed a 4 month journey to West Africa, in an effort to create unity programming. Prior to this commitment, AJ completed filming “Love & Hip Hop Miami”, season two of UMC’s “Stuck With You”, streaming hit holiday film, “Holiday Heartbreak”, and the popular television hit “COUPLES RETREAT”, where AJ life coaches America’s most dysfunctional reality show couples. All of her work lives under her brand THE AJ ZONE where she explains it as follows, “THE AJ ZONE is the zone you live in when you want to reach your better! We do not do personal training… we customize the design for one’s better, which is an equation as unique as the individual wanting the transformation!” Johnson has worked with some of Entertainment’s most notable names including Toni Braxton, Viola Davis, John Krasinski, Chaka Khan, Beyonce, Nicole Ari Parker, Boris Kudjoe, Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams, and more.

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CHECK OUT CLIPS FROM LIFE THERAPY with AJ AKUA JOHNSON

When AJ Meets Antoinette

The Root of the Issue


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Swirl Films is America’s “number one urban film production company,” a full-service film & television production company with over 60 original productions in the past six years, focusing on urban content and programming, independent features and multi-camera productions. Swirl Films is a major content provider for TV One including the original productions: Love Under New Management: The Miki Howard Story (2016), which was TV One’s first ever biopic, starring LisaRaye McCoy, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Darius McCrary, Indirah Khan and Teyonah Parris as Howard. According to the network, the film broke record ratings, undeniably becoming the top original film in the network’s history drawing in 2 million views, resulting in the networks highest ratings week ever. Quickly surpassing those numbers is TV One’s #1 original premiere of all time, When Love Kills: The Falicia Blakely Story (2017), starring Lance Gross, Niatia Kirkland and Tami Roman, directed by actress Tasha Smith. Swirl Films previous production credits for TV One include Born Again Virgin, starring Danielle Nicolet, Meagan Holder and Eva Marcille; Here We Go Again, starring LeToya Luckett, Wendy Raquel Robinson and Kyndall Ferguson; Russ Parr’s award-winning film, The Under shepherd, Hear No Evil and 35 & Ticking (Kevin Hart).