About Rue
Rue "Lashelle" Tennyson is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Oklahoma with 18 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, and trauma related issues. Rue aims to create a space where emotions and worries can be spoken about honestly and without judgment.
Her approach blends practical techniques with a warm, listening stance. She uses methods like acceptance and commitment work, cognitive behavioral tools, and attachment-focused ideas to help people notice patterns and try new responses.
How Rue works
Sessions often involve learning specific skills for mood, sleep, or anxiety while also addressing painful memories and relational patterns. Rue has supported people through grief, caregiving strain, career transitions, and midlife shifts. She also addresses compulsive or obsessive behaviors, mood disorders including bipolar concerns, and the fallout from past abuse.
Many sessions focus on rebuilding self-worth, managing anger, and improving communication in close relationships. Therapy with Rue combines short-term strategies and longer-term reflection. Clients practice new coping skills between sessions and try small tests of change in daily life.
Over time the goal is clearer priorities, steadier mood, and more reliable ways to handle stress and conflict. She offers sessions in English and provides therapy through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first appointment according to therapist availability.
Rue lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
What Rue works with
The areas below are the ones Rue selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 18 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Oklahoma |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online healing and change
Rue combines Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, and Client-Centered Therapy to address difficult feelings and relationship patterns. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck and clarifies what matters most so they can act on it. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early and current relationships shape reactions and helps people build safer ways of connecting. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental stance where the client leads the pace and topic of work.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Rue listens to each person's goals and preferences and then blends methods that match those needs. She reviews progress together and adjusts the plan over time so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions let people read facial cues and have deeper conversations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or screen time is limited. Live chat or text messaging can support brief check-ins, skill practice, or times when a full session is difficult to schedule. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy daily life.
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