- Strength-based approach
- Skill building focus
- Practical life changes
About Hope
Hope Scoles is a Minnesota psychologist with 30 years of experience helping people facing grief, anxiety, depression, codependency, and major life changes. She works with people who are overwhelmed by stress, wrestling with intimacy or relationship concerns, managing caregiving burdens, or seeking clearer life purpose. Her style is straightforward and strength-based. She helps clients notice what already works and build new skills from there.
She often supports people through loss and the spiritual questions that can come after bereavement. Hope guides clients in small, practical steps to find resilience during transitions. She also helps people who feel stuck by addressing sleeping and eating problems, career strain, and the emotional fallout of divorce or blended family issues.
Hope uses mindfulness and skills-based methods to lower emotional intensity and create steadier days. She draws on solution-focused techniques to set short-term goals and track progress. Internal Family Systems ideas are part of her approach when exploring different parts of a person’s inner life.
Hope views each person as the expert on their own story. She offers coaching-style guidance alongside traditional therapy, helping people try things between sessions and reflect on what works. Her aim is to help clients find more ease, clearer choices, and greater self-compassion.
Clients who prefer working with a Minnesota-licensed psychologist can expect a calm, pragmatic clinician who listens, outlines simple steps, and tailors the work to realistic daily life demands.
Approaches that translate well to online work
Hope commonly uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy in ways that fit well with remote sessions. DBT focuses on skills for handling strong emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening interpersonal effectiveness; it helps when anxiety, mood swings, or relationship strain feel overwhelming. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve day-to-day focus, which can help with stress, sleep, and chronic worry.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each client to choose methods that match goals, needs, and preferences. That decision is revisited as progress is made, so techniques can be adjusted over time.
Confirm the exact session options before booking since formats were not specified in the biography. Online therapy can make it easier to fit care into a busy life by reducing travel time and allowing sessions during workday breaks or between errands. Remote sessions also allow a focus on real-life skills practiced where daily routines happen, and they can make short check-ins simpler when problems flare.
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Experience
30+ years
Credentials
Minnesota
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What issues does Hope commonly help with?
She helps people facing grief, anxiety, depression, stress, addictions, codependency, and relationship concerns. Additional areas include parenting strain, caregiver stress, career challenges, and life transitions.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her work is strength-based and practical. Sessions focus on skill building, short-term goals, and steps people can try between meetings.
How much professional experience does she have?
Hope brings 30 years of professional work experience supporting a wide range of mental health needs. That experience shapes a steady, pragmatic approach in sessions.
What credential does she hold and where is she located?
She is a Minnesota Psychologist, credential listed as MN Psychologist LP0405, and practices in Minnesota.
Which languages are offered for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the U.S. work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How are fees and payment handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
Profile details come from information the therapist supplied to BetterHelp. Credential and registration rules differ between the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.