About Wallace
Dr. Wallace "Dent" Gitchel helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, relationship trouble, or big life changes. He works with concerns like grief, addiction, intimacy issues, parenting strain, and questions about life purpose.
Dent is a Licensed Professional Counselor - LPC based in Arkansas. He brings three years of documented counseling experience alongside a long personal practice of meditation. In sessions he uses straightforward methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness practices, and acceptance-focused work to help people notice unhelpful patterns and make different choices.
Background and approach
Sessions are grounded in a warm, accepting stance. Dent prioritizes honesty and respect, and aims to help people build self-compassion and clearer goals. He offers practical tools you can try between sessions, and talks through how to use them in day-to-day life.
Attachment-based ideas inform how he looks at relationship patterns and family of origin issues. He also works with complex topics like trauma, personality concerns, chronic illness, and end-of-life questions using talk-based and mindfulness methods. People seeking a collaborative therapist who emphasizes purpose, compassion, and usable skills may find his style helpful.
He combines client-centered listening with concrete techniques so work feels both humane and practical.
Approach, mindfulness, and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most and take small steps toward those values even when feelings are difficult. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening without judgment and letting clients lead the pace and agenda; it helps when someone needs a steady space to process emotions. Mindfulness Therapy teaches attention and awareness practices that reduce reactivity and can help with stress, chronic pain, and managing strong emotions.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked in the past. Together they try methods, adjust as needed, and decide which mix of techniques fits best over time.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone calls work well when camera use is difficult or bandwidth is limited, live chat supports short check-ins, and messaging can be used for ongoing reflections between sessions. These options help fit therapy into a busy life and make it easier to keep up with regular work toward goals.
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What this counselor 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