Hope Scoles

Hope Scoles is a Minnesota psychologist with three decades of experience supporting people through major life changes. She helps with grief, loss, anxiety, depression, stress, and the everyday struggles that leave people feeling stuck. Her approach begins by noticing strengths and building on them so clients can move toward more satisfying lives.

She listens for the questions that come up with loss and helps people talk through spiritual and practical concerns that often follow grief. Hope teaches skills to increase resilience during transitions like separation, career shifts, or caregiving changes. She also addresses intimacy-related worries, codependency, addictions, and sleep or eating troubles that can follow big life events.

Hope uses a collaborative, strengths-based style and helps clients set clear, doable goals. She draws on methods such as dialectical behavior strategies, mindfulness practices, solution-focused steps, and parts work to tailor sessions to each person. Sessions generally focus on concrete tools and real-life problem solving alongside deeper personal reflection.

Her work often includes helping people clarify values, reduce overwhelming emotions, and regain a sense of agency after loss or disruption. Hope encourages small experiments between sessions so clients can test new ways of coping and make steady progress.

Hope holds the credential MN Psychologist LP0405 and practices in Minnesota. Conversations are in English, and she brings 30 years of clinical experience to each person she meets.

How Hope’s approaches translate to online therapy

Hope commonly integrates dialectical behavior strategies and mindfulness practices to help people manage intense emotions and build calm routines. Dialectical behavior work focuses on emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving interpersonal effectiveness through concrete skills practice. Mindfulness therapy emphasizes present-moment awareness and simple exercises that reduce reactivity and improve sleep and focus.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Hope will collaborate with each client to identify which methods fit their goals, needs, and daily life. That means trying skills, reviewing what helps, and adjusting methods over time to match progress and preferences.

Practical benefits of online therapy include easier fitting of sessions into busy schedules and fewer logistical barriers to attending regularly. If you plan to begin, confirm the current session options before booking so you know what formats are available. The emphasis is on making therapeutic work usable within everyday routines, with short skills practice between meetings and goal-focused steps you can apply right away.