About Rue
Rue "Lashelle" Tennyson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Oklahoma. She draws on 18 years of clinical experience to help people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or life changes. Rue focuses on creating a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk honestly about what is hard right now.
Her approach is practical and relational. She uses methods like cognitive behavioral work to notice and shift unhelpful thinking.
Background and approach
She also leans on acceptance and commitment ideas to help people clarify values and take manageable steps forward. Rue brings attachment-informed thinking into sessions to help people understand patterns in their close relationships. She combines this with emotion-focused strategies and skills from dialectical behavior therapy when strong feelings or intense reactions get in the way of daily life.
She has supported people through trauma and grief, trouble sleeping, parenting strain, career stress, and compassion fatigue. Rue also addresses concerns such as anger, low self-esteem, obsessive or compulsive behaviors, and social anxiety. Her work includes helping people find purpose during midlife shifts and cope with major life transitions.
Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. Rue helps set small, realistic steps so progress feels doable. She aims to be a steady, practical partner for people ready to make change.
How therapy approaches shape online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, avoidance, and big life decisions because it focuses on small committed steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete strategies to reduce anxious or depressive patterns. It often helps with sleep problems, worry, and work stress. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationship patterns affect current bonds and reactions. It can be helpful when relationship patterns or intimacy concerns cause ongoing distress.Choosing the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to identify goals and try techniques that fit their needs and preferences. That may mean using CBT tools one week and attachment-focused conversations the next, or blending ACT and emotion-focused skills depending on how things feel.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction for skill teaching and deeper conversations. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is low or a quieter audio check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let people check in between meetings or use shorter, more frequent support during a busy day. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- 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
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
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