Rue "Lashelle" Tennyson, LPC - Therapist in Oklahoma

About Rue

Rue "Lashelle" Tennyson is a licensed professional counselor with 18 years of experience. She uses straightforward talk and practical tools to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and other everyday struggles. She aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where feelings can be named and thought through.

Parents and caregivers often look to her for help with parenting stress and family concerns. Lashelle draws from several therapy methods to meet practical needs.

Background and approach

She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot and change unhelpful thinking patterns. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people focus on values and small steps forward. Emotion regulation skills from Dialectical Behavior Therapy are offered when strong emotions feel overwhelming.

Sessions tend to be conversational and focused on real-life changes. She helps clients build simple strategies for sleeping, coping with grief, managing anger, and improving communication. Work often includes setting small goals and practicing new skills between sessions.

Her practice reflects long-term experience in handling trauma, relationship strain, and mood concerns, including bipolar disorder and obsessive-compulsive patterns. She also addresses caregiver stress, isolation, and midlife transitions. The style is warm and practical rather than abstract.

Lashelle is licensed in Oklahoma as an LPC, license number OK LPC LPC05122. Sessions are offered in English and delivered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. To begin, a short matching questionnaire and scheduling step is used to connect people with her practice.

Therapeutic approaches that translate well to online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and then take small steps toward what matters. This approach is useful for stress, anxiety, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments to reduce symptoms like depression, anxiety, and sleep problems. Dialectical Behavior Therapy provides practical emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills for intense emotions and relationship strain.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will listen to your goals and preferences and then suggest methods that fit your situation. Together you will try strategies and adjust them based on what helps most, keeping the process collaborative and goal-focused.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from home. Phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging provide shorter or more frequent contacts when schedules or care needs make that easier. These options aim to make ongoing support more accessible and easier to fit into daily life.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.

Attachment-Based Therapy

Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.

Client-Centered Therapy

The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does she commonly address?

She helps with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting and family concerns, grief, sleep problems, anger, and self-esteem challenges.

What is her therapy style like?

Her approach is conversational and practical, focusing on clear steps and skill-building rather than lengthy theory. Sessions emphasize problem-solving and real-life practice.

How much clinical experience does she have?

She has 18 years of professional work experience supporting people with mood disorders, trauma, caregiver stress, and life transitions.

What credentials and region apply to this therapist?

She is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Oklahoma with license number OK LPC LPC05122.

Which languages are sessions offered in?

Sessions are offered in English.

Can people outside the country work with her?

International clients are not currently accepted. Services are provided to clients within the applicable region.

What session formats are available?

She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.

How does payment work and how do I start?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To start, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule based on therapist availability.

Specialties and expertise

Top specialties

Stress, Anxiety
Relationship issues
Trauma and abuse

Also works with

Therapeutic approaches

Experience: 18 years
Licensed: Oklahoma
Languages: English

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