About Hope
Hope Scoles is a Minnesota psychologist with 30 years of professional experience helping people navigate anxiety, grief, depression, and everyday stress. She aims to help clients find practical skills to cope and to build greater resilience. Hope uses a strength-based approach and treats each person as the expert of their own story.
She often supports people through loss and the spiritual questions that can come with grief. She helps clients deal with life changes and the routine stresses that erode satisfaction, from restless discontent to ongoing worry.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on finding useful tools and small shifts that make daily life feel more manageable. Hope draws on approaches that emphasize present-moment awareness, emotional regulation, and practical problem solving. She uses techniques to calm the nervous system, improve relationships, and break unhelpful patterns.
The work is collaborative and paced to match each person’s needs and goals. With a long career in the field, she brings experience across many concerns including addiction, parenting strain, career questions, eating and sleeping issues, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and compassion fatigue. Her background also includes work with caregiving stress, blended family dynamics, and life purpose questions.
Hope describes therapy as a partnership. She guides people toward clearer choices and more reliable coping skills while honoring their values and life context. Taking the first step is framed as an act of courage, and she offers steady support along the way.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Dialectical Behavior Therapy emphasizes skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. It teaches concrete techniques - such as distress tolerance and emotion regulation - that can help with anxiety, mood swings, and interpersonal stress.Mindfulness Therapy focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting swept away by them. Practicing simple attention and grounding exercises can reduce rumination and increase calm in daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level, and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues for a fuller conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to use the format that best supports each person’s needs.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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