Yvette Skope, LMFT
Compassionate therapist helping people rewrite their stories
Details
| Name | Yvette Skope |
|---|---|
| Credentials | LMFT |
| Based in | Hawaii |
| Licensed in | Hawaii |
| Session format | Online |
| Languages | English |
| Years in practice | 6 |
About Yvette
Yvette Skope is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing on the Big Island of Hawaii. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, addictions, parenting and caregiving strain. She also supports people coping with career changes, ADHD, self-esteem struggles, and issues around body image and identity.
Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. She meets people where they are and works together to shift unhelpful stories that keep them stuck.
Background and approach
Sessions often include talking through current problems, noticing patterns, and trying small, practical steps between meetings. Yvette draws on Narrative and client-centered approaches to help people rewrite painful or limiting life stories. She also uses cognitive behavioral ideas to identify thought and behavior patterns, and elements of dialectical behavior therapy to build emotion regulation skills.
She brings six years of clinical experience, including work in intensive in-home services with youth and families and prior roles in adult mental health that combined therapy and case management. Her background includes training in grief and loss, Internal Family Systems concepts, CBT, DBT, and sand tray work.
Yvette earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Hawaii at Hilo and a master’s degree in family therapy from Argosy University. She holds the LMFT credential in Hawaii and provides sessions in English.
What this therapist works with
Her listing names Stress, Anxiety, Relationship issues, Family conflicts among the things Yvette works with, alongside the areas below.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches listed
- Narrative Therapy: Named in her listing among her approaches.
- Client-Centered Therapy: Listed by Yvette among the ways she works.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Listed by Yvette among the ways she works.
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT): Listed by Yvette among the ways she works.
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT): Listed by Yvette among the ways she works.
- Gottman Method: Listed by Yvette among the ways she works.
- Jungian Therapy: Listed by Yvette among the ways she works.
- Mindfulness Therapy: Listed by Yvette among the ways she works.
- Solution-Focused Therapy: Listed by Yvette among the ways she works.
- Trauma-Focused Therapy: Listed by Yvette among the ways she works.
- Training stated: This directory copies the approaches a therapist names and does not check training records. Ask Yvette directly how much of the work is narrative and what a session usually looks like.
Narrative Therapy in this listing
Narrative Therapy appears in this therapist's own list of approaches. That tells you it is part of how she works. It does not tell you how much of a session it shapes, and this directory does not check or rate training.
If a narrative approach is what you are looking for, it is worth asking Yvette directly how she uses it and what a session usually looks like.
Online session options
How Narrative and Skill-Based Work Translate to Online Sessions
Yvette uses Narrative Therapy to help people name the stories that shape their choices and relationships, then work to rewrite those stories in ways that feel more helpful. Narrative work can be useful for issues like identity, grief, relationship patterns, and coping after trauma. She also brings a client-centered stance that prioritizes listening and building rapport. This approach focuses on the person’s goals and strengths and helps create a calm, collaborative pace for change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, used alongside these approaches, helps identify unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and replace them with practical experiments and skills practice. Finding the right approach is a team effort. Yvette will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and needs and then try approaches that fit. She adjusts plans as progress is made, combining narrative listening with concrete skill-building when that helps move things forward. Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people work face-to-face from wherever they are. Phone sessions can be less data-intensive and easier to fit into a short break. Live chat and text messaging offer brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule care around work, school, and caregiving demands while maintaining the same therapeutic focus.Common questions about this listing
What concerns does Yvette help with?
She supports people with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, addictions, parenting and caregiver stress, ADHD, and related concerns such as body image and codependency.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her approach is collaborative and person-centered. She helps people tell and revise the stories that shape how they respond to problems and relationships.
What is her clinical experience?
She has six years of clinical experience, including intensive in-home work with youth and families and prior adult mental health roles combining therapy and case management.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist credential (LMFT) in Hawaii and practices on the Big Island.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats does she use for online work?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging as session formats.
How are costs and billing handled?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
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