Rue "Lashelle" Tennyson is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 18 years of experience based in Oklahoma.
01About Rue
Rue "Lashelle" Tennyson is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 18 years of experience based in Oklahoma. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma. Her style is straightforward and compassionate, aimed at creating a calm space where someone can speak openly about what’s hard right now.
She uses practical, evidence-informed approaches to help clients manage strong emotions and make real changes. That can mean working on day-to-day coping skills for anxiety and sleep, addressing patterns that affect relationships and intimacy, or supporting someone through life transitions and career concerns.
Background and approach
She also helps people facing caregiver stress, compassion fatigue, and mood-related challenges such as bipolar disorder. In sessions she leans into therapies that teach new ways to respond to thoughts and feelings, and to build stronger emotional connections with self and others. Clients can expect guided conversations, skill practice, and moments to reflect on values and goals.
Rue emphasizes simple, doable techniques that fit into daily life. Her work includes attention to issues like anger, forgiveness, guilt and shame, social anxiety, obsessions and compulsions, and post-traumatic stress. She also supports people wrestling with purpose, isolation, and midlife change.
The aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes. Rue invites clients to start from where they are and to move at a pace that feels right. She frames therapy as a collaborative process and helps people set concrete, realistic steps toward feeling more capable and connected.
02Credentials
- LPC (Oklahoma)
- License LPC05122 · expires June 2027
- NPI
- 1609193168 · national provider identifier
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03Focus areas and approaches
Everything Rue lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
Methods Rue names
- 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
These are the methods Rue names on their own professional profile. Naming an approach is not evidence of training or certification in it, and this directory checks no training records. Ask directly if it matters to you.
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04Online support
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on choosing actions that match what matters most, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life changes.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds shape current connections. It helps people spot patterns in relationships and build more supported emotional responses to others and to themselves.
Rue will work with each person to find the best fit among these and other approaches. Deciding which approach to use is a team effort - she asks about your goals, what has helped in the past, and how you prefer to work, then adjusts as therapy progresses.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when a quick check-in fits a break at work. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to connect in shorter moments and to keep work moving between longer sessions. These options make scheduling more flexible and help therapy fit into a busy life.
05Questions people ask
What concerns does Rue help with?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, sleep problems, parenting strain, anger, self-esteem, and career questions.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her approach is warm and practical. Sessions focus on plain talk, skill building, and working toward small, achievable changes.
How much experience does she have?
She has 18 years of professional experience providing counseling in a range of clinical areas.
Where is Rue licensed and based?
Rue is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, practicing in Oklahoma.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for online work.
How does payment and cost work?
Costs vary by location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin therapy with Rue?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule based on therapist availability.
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