Christ-centered inner healing & restoration
Heal. Grow. Thrive.
Lasting transformation happens in authentic relationship. At Koinonia Restoration House, faith and healing are not at odds — they are brought together to restore the whole person: body, soul, and spirit.
Online with Dr. Lori Dunn · serving individuals, couples & families across the U.S.
When prayer alone hasn't been enough
Maybe you have done the right things. You have prayed, served, believed. And still the anxiety returns at night, the old wound aches, the grief sits heavy. Secular therapy can feel like it asks you to leave your faith at the door. The church can feel like it asks you to leave your pain there. You were never meant to choose.
The koinonia way
Healing happens in relationship
Koinonia is the Greek word for deep fellowship — connection and shared life, all the way down. It's the foundation of everything here: care that integrates evidence-based, trauma-informed principles, biblical truth, and transformational prayer to address the whole person.
Compassionate care brings understanding — naming what happened and how it shaped you. Inner healing prayer invites God into those very places, where comfort and truth reach what insight alone cannot. Together, they make room for real, lasting wholeness — body, soul, and spirit.
“Cultivating healing and wholeness through authentic relationships — empowering individuals and families to experience freedom, discover purpose, and thrive in healthy connection with God, themselves, and others.”
Explore our approach — and what working together looks like →
How we can walk together
Care for the whole you
Faith-Based Emotional Healing
Christ-centered, pastoral support for anxiety, depression, grief, and life transitions — care that honors your faith instead of setting it aside, addressing body, soul, and spirit.
Learn more →Trauma & Attachment Healing
Trauma-informed care for attachment wounds, complex trauma, and the patterns they leave behind — helping you move beyond survival toward lasting healing and connection.
Learn more → Our distinctiveInner Healing & Spiritual Formation
Guided, biblically-grounded prayer that invites God into the wounded places memory and reason alone cannot reach — woven together with compassionate, faith-based care.
Learn more →Relationship & Family Care
Support for couples, families, and relational patterns — cultivating the authentic, healthy connection that healing and belonging are built on.
Learn more →Identity & Purpose
For those who feel overlooked or "different" — discovering your God-given identity, gifts, and calling, and stepping confidently into your purpose.
Learn more →Leadership & Ministry Care
Confidential care for pastors, ministry leaders, and helpers carrying the weight of others — a place to be poured into rather than only poured out.
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Meet Dr. Lori Dunn
A trusted guide toward wholeness
Dr. Lori Dunn is the Founder of Koinonia Restoration House, where she helps individuals, families, and leaders experience healing, wholeness, and transformation through authentic relationships. She founded the practice on a simple conviction: no one should have to choose between sound, compassionate care and a living faith.
She holds a Doctorate in Christian Counseling and a Master of Arts in Trauma & Crisis Management, is an ordained minister, and specializes in attachment trauma, relational healing, and identity formation — with a special heart for those who feel like “misfits.”
- ◆ Doctorate in Christian Counseling
- ◆ M.A., Trauma & Crisis Management
- ◆ Ordained Minister
- ◆ Member, American Association of Christian Counselors (AACC)
“…to bind up the brokenhearted… to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord.”
Good questions
Before you reach out
Do you work with clients outside North Carolina? +
Yes. Koinonia Restoration House offers Christ-centered, faith-based inner healing and pastoral support online, serving individuals, couples, and families across the United States from a base in North Carolina.
What is inner healing? +
Inner healing is guided, biblically-grounded prayer that invites God into painful memories and wounds for comfort, truth, and freedom. At Koinonia Restoration House it works hand in hand with trauma-informed care — not in place of it.
Is this the same as seeing a licensed therapist? +
No. Dr. Dunn provides Christ-centered, faith-based inner healing and pastoral support, which is pastoral in nature and distinct from licensed clinical mental-health treatment. We are glad to work alongside your licensed providers and can offer referrals when clinical care is needed.
Who do you work with? +
Individuals, couples, families, and ministry leaders — including those navigating trauma, attachment wounds, relationship challenges, grief, life transitions, leadership stress, identity, and purpose.
We'd love to hear from you
Reach out
Have a question before booking, or want to know if Koinonia Restoration House is the right fit? Send a note and Dr. Dunn will personally get back to you.
Email: info@thekoinoniahouse.com
Serving: Nationwide (online), based in North Carolina
Take the first step
Schedule a free consultation
A relaxed, no-pressure conversation to see if working together is a good fit. Bring your questions — there are no wrong ones.