About Uri Christian Counseling
Your First Session Will Feel Easier Than You Expect
You’ll meet with me from wherever you already feel most like yourself. Your own chair, your own coffee, your own closed door.
Plenty of people tell me they weren’t sure online counseling would feel like anything real. That doubt rarely lasts past the first few minutes.
I’ll ask what brought you here, and then I’ll listen without steering you toward a conclusion I reached before you finished talking.
The most common thing I hear at the end of a first session is that it was a lot easier than expected.
When Your Anxiety Treatment Keeps Coming Up Short
You’ve been treated for anxiety or depression before, possibly for years, and the results never held.
When that happens, something underneath is usually driving the whole thing. Untreated ADHD is one of the first things I look for in adults who built their entire lives around compensating for it.
The lost focus, the half-finished tasks, the brain that won’t shut off at night: all of it gets read as anxiety and treated as anxiety, and the treatment keeps sliding off.
Once the pattern gets named correctly, the work finally has something real to aim at.
Your Faith Belongs in the Room
Counseling here treats you as body, soul, and spirit, because that’s how you actually live.
Your faith stays in the conversation as a resource we can use rather than a symptom I have to interpret. Scripture and prayer come into the work where they carry weight for you.
What you eat, how you sleep, who you talk to, and what you believe all show up in how you feel on an ordinary Tuesday afternoon.
We work with all of it.
You’ll Know Exactly What We’re Working On
Every session ends with you knowing what we’re working on and why.
Homework gets sized to a real week, the kind with a job in it and kids in it and a commute in it. I don’t assign more than a real week can hold.
Progress gets tracked with the same anxiety and depression screenings your doctor would use, so improvement is something we can see instead of something we hope for.
Most people feel something shifting within about four sessions, and a full season of work tends to run three to six months. When you’re doing well, we stop. The door stays open for a tune-up whenever you want one.
About Elaine Wallace, LPC
My first education in what people do under pressure didn’t happen in a classroom. It happened while I was working as a police officer.
People rarely met me on a good day. They met me in the worst hour they’d had in years, and my job was to stay steady inside it.
From there, I moved into investigative work for a Public Defender’s Office, sitting with people whose lives were being decided by a system that mostly saw a case file.
That work taught me to ask better questions and to keep asking after the first answer. The first answer is almost never the whole story.
Somewhere in those years, my home became a therapeutic foster home. As a Therapeutic Foster Parent with Arrow Child and Family Ministries, I cared for children who arrived with hard beginnings and a lot of instability that was never theirs to begin with.
Fostering taught me things a classroom can’t. Attachment stops being a theory when a child is deciding, in real time, whether you’re worth trusting.
Those years shaped how I understand families, and they showed me what steady, compassionate care does for a person who hasn’t had much of it.
Counseling was where all of it finally pointed. I opened Uri Christian Counseling in 2021.
My Master of Science in Professional Counseling is from Grand Canyon University, and my Bachelor of Science in Psychology is from Ohio Christian University. Both are Christian institutions, which is why faith and clinical training have never been separate things for me.
I’m licensed as a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania and South Carolina, and as a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) in Maryland.
While my education and clinical training are important, I believe the heart of counseling is found in genuine human connection.
Outside of my counseling practice, I am a wife, the proud mother of three wonderful adult sons, and a grateful grandmother of three amazing grandchildren. My family has taught me the importance of love, resilience, grace, and finding joy in every season of life.
When I’m not meeting with clients, I enjoy traveling, cooking, and spending quiet moments in meditation and reflection. These activities help me stay grounded, refreshed, and continually mindful of the importance of caring for the whole person: mind, body, and spirit.
Send Me the First Message
I work with adults online in the states where I’m licensed: Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Maryland.
Tell me what’s going on in a few sentences, and we’ll set up a consultation to talk it through.
You can start with the messy version. That’s the one I’d rather hear anyway.
Make the Call
You’ve Been Putting Off
The consultation is free and runs about 15 minutes. I book it myself, so you’ll be talking with me rather than a scheduling system.
You’ll tell me what the hardest part has been lately and what you want to be different by the time we’re finished, and I’ll tell you how I’d approach it and where we’d start.
You don’t need the answers worked out before you dial. If weary is the word you’d use for this stretch of your life, that’s reason enough to pick up the phone.
Talk with me for 15 minutes