You Keep Pretending Everything is Okay. It’s Exhausting.
Find true relief with therapy that makes room for your faith.
Christian counseling for adults with anxiety, depression, and ADHD.
You’ve Already Tried the Obvious Things
Beating yourself up with shame and guilt, thinking penance was the answer.
Making yourself so busy, you were sure you’d forget about the pain.
Putting everyone else’s needs first, thinking you could redeem yourself by leaving yourself behind.
Seeing all that written out here, you feel a little silly for thinking any of that could work.
It’s not silly. You’ve done the best you can with the tools you have.
Christian Counseling gives you new strategies for overcoming the stressors of life while holding to your values and connection to Christ.
I love God… I trust God. So, why do I still feel this way?
Keeping Up Appearances is Costing You
The pretending takes more out of you than the problem does. On Sunday morning you do it in a building full of people who would pray for you in a second if you said one true sentence out loud.
Start With One True SentenceWhy Your Best Efforts Kept Missing the Mark
Praying harder, staying busy, and putting everyone else first have one thing in common: all three aim you somewhere other than the thing that’s wrong.
Counseling aims you straight at it.
Christ Centered Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is the spine of our work. It starts with the thought and works outward to what that thought is costing you.
There’s always a named goal, so you’ll know what we’re working on.
It’s ok to feel lost and hurt. God knows we struggle. He puts answers in our path when we need them most. We just need to have the courage to speak the truth.
What Your Ordinary Week Starts to Look Like
The first changes show up in ordinary places, usually before you think you’ve made any progress.
- Finish the thing on your desk instead of moving it to tomorrow’s list.
- Sit through a hard conversation without rehashing it for hours afterward.
- Disagree with your spouse without losing the rest of the day.
- Tell one person the truth and watch nothing fall apart.
- Enjoy your family instead of managing them from behind a smile.
None of it requires becoming a different person.
The Three Phases You’ll Move Through
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Name It Correctly
The first sessions sort out what’s actually happening, what you’ve already tried, and what you want different by the end of this.
The problem gets named accurately. -
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Build the Tools
You learn to catch a thought early, before it sets the tone for the rest of the day, plus grounding practice for the days it gets ahead of you anyway. You’ll take one small thing home each week.
The tools begin to hold. -
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Run Your Own Week
Once the goals you named are met, we say so plainly and counseling ends. You keep the tools and you’ll know exactly when to use them.
You graduate, and that’s the point.
Say One True Sentence to Me and We’ll Start There
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You’ll Never Have to Explain Your Faith
Our Christian faith and Christian values are the context that holds everything else we discuss. That’s our starting point. You won’t have to explain or defend any of your beliefs.Three Thousand Hours Before My First Client
Those hours came from Safe Harbor Behavioral Health, across the full range of what adults walk in with, so you can start with the part you’d normally save for the third session.Counseling With Goals You Can Track
There’s a written goal and a written plan from early on, so you can tell whether this is working without taking my word for it.
Elaine Wallace, LPC, LCPC
I’m Elaine Wallace, and Uri Christian Counseling has been mine since 2021. The name is pronounced “Yuri.”
I look at a person from a standpoint of body, soul, and spirit, and what you believe is part of that picture rather than a footnote to it.
Everything happens online, in the states where I’m licensed: Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Maryland.
Frequently Asked Questions
Fifteen minutes, free, and mostly you talking. You describe what’s been going on, I ask a few questions, and we decide together whether to book a first session.
Long enough to build tools that hold, and no longer. We name the goals early, so the end of the work is something both of us can see coming.
It does. People who worried about that beforehand tend to tell me afterward that it was easier than they expected, and the drive they never had to make is part of why.
Waiting until it’s unbearable is the most common mistake I see. A hard season counts, and it’s a much better place to start from than a crisis.
Take the First Step Today
The call is fifteen minutes. Nobody is going to ask you to explain your whole life on it.
One true sentence about how the last few months have actually gone is enough to start with. It’s more than most people say out loud all year. Loving God and needing help have never once been in conflict.
What Happens Next?
100% Secure & Confidential
All information is encrypted and protected under HIPAA privacy laws.
Payments & Services
Services are billed on a session-by-session basis. We provide superbills for insurance reimbursement and accept HSA/FSA. No hidden fees – all costs are explained before you begin.