About Yvette
Yvette Skope is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who practices from Hawaii. She supports people coping with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and family concerns, and other life changes. She has six years of clinical experience working in community and mental health settings.
She previously worked in Intensive In-Home Services with youths and their families and in adult mental health doing therapy alongside case management. That blend of work shaped a practical style that centers clear goals and real-life problem solving.
Background and approach
She holds a Bachelor of Psychology from the University of Hawaii at Hilo and a Master of Family Therapy from Argosy University, and she is licensed as an LMFT in Hawaii. In sessions she begins by listening and helping people tell their story. She uses a person-centered stance that meets clients where they are.
From there she draws on approaches that fit the person's needs rather than following a single method. Her toolbox includes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques for skills and coping. She also uses Emotionally-Focused work and elements of the Gottman Method for relationship concerns.
Practical exercises, internal work such as inner child exploration, and narrative techniques are used when helpful. She emphasizes collaboration and honest intentions as the starting point for change. Therapy sessions focus on small, concrete steps and problem solving that can be applied between meetings.
The aim is steady progress toward clearer choices and better ways to manage difficult feelings.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and meeting people where they are. It helps people feel heard and supports their own decisions about change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is practical and task-focused; it looks at thoughts, behaviors, and simple exercises to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy adds skills for managing intense emotions and improving distress tolerance when situations feel overwhelming.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss goals, try techniques that match the person’s needs, and adjust methods over time. That collaborative process helps find what feels most useful for managing anxiety, relationships, or other concerns.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls work well for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat and messaging let people share thoughts in writing and use shorter check-ins between scheduled meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep progress moving forward.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Hawaii
- Languages
- English
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