- Years in practice
- 30
- Credentials
- MN Psychologist
- Licensed in
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Grief
- Focus
- Depression
About Hope
Hope Scoles is a Minnesota psychologist with 30 years of professional experience. She helps people facing grief, anxiety, depression, and the stress that comes with life changes. Hope works with parenting concerns and relationship and career stress, and she offers practical support for sleep, eating, and addictive behaviors.
She uses a strength-based approach that centers the client's own knowledge of their life. Hope helps people notice existing skills, then practices new coping tools together.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on small, concrete steps that build resilience over time. Hope draws on several therapeutic methods to match what each person needs. She uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance.
Mindfulness techniques are woven into sessions to help with grounding and attention. Solution-Focused Therapy helps set clear, short-term goals to make steady progress. Her work includes addressing deeper patterns that come from family of origin issues, abandonment, and commitment concerns.
She also supports people navigating caregiving stress, aging and geriatric issues, cancer, divorce and separation, and post-traumatic stress. Hope pays attention to life purpose, self-love, and the spiritual questions that often come with grief. People who prefer a practical, collaborative style will find sessions focused and caring.
Hope aims to help each person find tools that fit their everyday life. She encourages steady, manageable changes rather than quick fixes.
What Hope works with
Everything Hope lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Hope helps people with.
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Life purpose
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Women's issues
Approaches Hope lists
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Online approaches that focus on skills and goals
Hope commonly uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to help with intense emotions and distress tolerance. DBT offers concrete tools for handling intense moods, reducing impulsive behavior, and improving relationships. Mindfulness Therapy is another approach she uses to help people stay present and reduce rumination through simple attention and breathing practices.Hope also draws on Solution-Focused Therapy to set clear and achievable short-term goals. That approach centers on small changes that add up, which can be useful for parenting concerns, work stress, and grief. She views finding the right mix of methods as a team effort and will work with each person to choose approaches that match their goals, needs, and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone session, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. This variety helps fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily rhythms.
Questions people ask about Hope
What concerns does Hope address?
She supports people with grief, anxiety, depression, parenting concerns, stress, addictions, relationship and career issues, and related areas such as sleep and eating problems.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Hope takes a strength-based, collaborative style that focuses on practical steps. Sessions emphasize skills you can use between meetings.
What is her professional background?
She has 30 years of professional work experience as a Minnesota psychologist and has helped people across many life challenges.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a Minnesota Psychologist holding the credential MN Psychologist LP0405 and practices from Minnesota.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be done by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How are costs handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
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