Gerald “Neil” Uniacke, Pre-Licensed Counselor Associate
Practicing Since: 1987
His many years of pastoral counseling has given Neil the ability to provide excellent and effective mental health services- incorporating a blend of personal experience, scriptural knowledge, and practical application of clinical education. Neil will provide his clients with a gentle, insightful, and understanding acceptance of their all-encompassing issues.
Neil’s view of mental health includes the recognition of personal spirituality and experiential development, which are often time very helpful in coping with and working through struggles. And whether those struggles stem from previous negative and hurtful relationships, current unhealthy interactions, and/or ongoing internal mental/emotional battles.
Since graduating with his bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Sociology in 1979 with honors, Neil has worked extensively with many different populations, including adjudicated delinquent young men, until being called to Pastoral Counseling from 1983 – 2010, where he predominately worked with individuals, families, couples, and ran group therapy sessions. During which he gained his masters of counseling in 1987, and collaborated with his location ambulance company, providing counseling to those in the fire, police, and medical service between 1999 – 2019. It was during this time as well that Neil became the Director of his local Counseling Center, while training at York Hospital in their Chaplain Intern program until 2019 and worked as a bereavement counselor in a large Hospice facility during the Covid-19 pandemic. As well, Neil continued again to work with court adjudicated juveniles and adults, and sexual offenders and their family members up current year.
Having celebrated his 45th year of marriage with his wonderful wife Katy, who is a longtime nurse, EMS instructor, and amazing gardener and cook, Neil is also blessed with 4 grown children who are spread across Pennsylvania and beyond pursuing goals of medicine, teaching, and culinary arts. In his spare time, Neil is an avid photographer and a voracious reader, with a literary preference for ancient theological treatises. Gerald “Neil” Uniacke is under the clinical supervision of Bruce Weatherly, Psychologist (#PS005590L).
