About Rue
Rue "Lashelle" Tennyson is a licensed professional counselor in Oklahoma with 18 years of clinical experience. She uses straightforward, practical methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and the aftereffects of trauma and abuse. Rue focuses on building a calm, respectful space where people can say what’s on their mind and begin to make real changes.
She draws on approaches like acceptance and commitment therapy and cognitive behavioral strategies to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different actions.
Background and approach
Attachment-based ideas and client-centered listening shape how she understands relationship patterns and closeness. Dialectical behavior therapy skills are used when stronger emotional regulation or distress tolerance is needed. Rue works with common life struggles such as parenting stress, grief, sleep problems, career worries, and midlife transitions.
She also addresses patterns like impulsivity, control issues, guilt, shame, and social anxiety. Her practice includes mood disorders, bipolar concerns, and obsessive thoughts and compulsions when they affect daily life. In sessions she helps people set small, realistic goals and practices simple skills between meetings.
Conversations are plainspoken and focused on what will make daily life easier. The emphasis is on steady progress rather than quick fixes. She supports caregivers coping with long-term stress and those facing compassion fatigue.
People who want clearer communication, more self-compassion, or help moving through major life changes will find practical tools and steady guidance.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and choosing values-guided actions instead of getting stuck in worry or avoidance. It can help with anxiety, low mood, and finding purpose. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical tools to change unhelpful patterns; it is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and compulsive behaviors. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how past relationship experiences shape current connections and communication, which can help with intimacy, trust, and relationship patterns.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals and try different methods to see what fits best. Together you set small goals and adjust the plan if something does not feel helpful.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let you see each other and work through exercises together. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for short check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick feedback, mood tracking, or ongoing check-ins between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping focus on practical skills and progress.
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What this counselor 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