About Yvette
Yvette Skope is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in Hawaii who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship and family concerns. She also supports clients dealing with grief, addiction, intimacy and self-esteem struggles.
Background and approach
Her approach is practical and down-to-earth, aimed at making therapy understandable and useful for everyday life. Yvette brings six years of clinical experience, including work in Intensive In Home Services and adult mental health settings.
She uses a mix of approaches so sessions fit each person’s needs instead of following a rigid script. Clients can expect straightforward conversation, focused goals, and techniques they can try between sessions.
Her work draws on client-centered methods that start with listening and building trust. She pairs that with cognitive behavioral ideas to notice and change unhelpful thinking patterns.
For relational concerns she integrates Emotionally-Focused and Gottman-informed perspectives to address communication and connection. Sessions may also include skills from Dialectical Behavior Therapy to help manage strong emotions and increase tolerance for distress.
Yvette notes common themes such as attachment, abandonment, body image, caregiving stress, and coping with life changes in her practice. She aims to help people find clearer ways to move forward.
Yvette holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Hawaii at Hilo and a Master’s degree in Family Therapy from Argosy University. She practices in Hawaii and conducts therapy in English.
How her approaches fit into online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a respectful connection so clients feel heard and understood; it helps when someone needs space to sort out feelings and decide next steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thought and behavior and teaches specific techniques to reduce anxiety, depression, or unhelpful habits. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, adds skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening interpersonal effectiveness.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, and then adapt methods so sessions remain collaborative and practical. Clients often try a few techniques to see what helps and adjust the plan as they go.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule. Video lets you use visual cues for relationship or emotion work. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a break at work. Live chat and messaging support quick reflections, ongoing coaching, or brief skill practice between longer sessions. These options increase flexibility and can help people keep consistent momentum in therapy.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- 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