About Wallace
Dr. Wallace "Dent" Gitchel is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Arkansas who focuses on anxiety, stress, and related life challenges. He greets each person with warmth and a straightforward style aimed at easing immediate worry.
He emphasizes practical steps people can use between sessions to feel steadier day to day. He favors approaches that help people notice what matters, change unhelpful patterns, and build self-compassion. Sessions tend to center on clarifying values, learning new coping skills, and practicing simple mindfulness exercises.
Background and approach
He also draws on ideas that look at how attachment and early relationships shape current reactions. Dr. Gitchel has three years of experience listed as a therapist in this context.
He describes his work as compassion-oriented and supports people in finding purpose and meaning after loss, trauma, or life transitions. He aims to be honest and authentic in the therapeutic relationship while encouraging clients to use tools between meetings. Clients can expect a calm, direct approach that mixes talking, skill practice, and brief mindfulness work.
He mentions helping people with anxiety, depression, grief, relationship stress, addiction concerns, and issues around identity and shame. The focus is on practical strategies that fit each person’s daily life. He offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
Sessions are arranged through the site’s matching and scheduling process and use a cancellable subscription for payment.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values even when anxiety or fear is present. In short sessions this looks like identifying priorities, choosing one manageable action, and tracking progress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting thoughts and behaviors that keep anxiety going and then testing different responses to change how people feel. Sessions often include short behavioral experiments and simple homework between meetings. Mindfulness Therapy teaches brief attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase awareness of thought patterns; these skills can be practiced in daily moments to ease stress.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. That process is gradual and flexible - adjustments are made based on what helps most in real life.
Online therapy offers practical advantages. Video calls let people use body language and screen-sharing for exercises. Phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option when video is difficult. Live chat and text messaging make it easy to check in between appointments or to have shorter, focused exchanges during a busy day. These formats make regular, consistent contact more feasible for many people while still using ACT, CBT, and mindfulness tools effectively.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Arkansas
- Languages
- English
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