About Yvette
Yvette Skope helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma, grief, and addiction. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) based in Hawaii with six years of clinical experience. Her work covers a wide range of concerns including parenting strain, intimacy issues, mood disorders, ADHD, and questions around identity and sexual orientation.
She prefers a straightforward, person-centered style. Sessions start with listening to what matters most and then set small, achievable goals.
How Yvette works
She mixes practical skills with deeper conversation so people can feel steadier and more able to make choices they want. Yvette draws on cognitive behavioral strategies to spot unhelpful thinking and change patterns that maintain distress. She also uses dialectical behavior tools to teach emotion regulation and coping skills that can help in intense moments.
Emotion-focused ideas guide conversations about attachment and closeness when relationships are the main concern. Her background includes work in intensive in-home services with youth and families and earlier roles in adult mental health that combined therapy with case management.
She holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Hawaii at Hilo and a master’s degree in family therapy from Argosy University. In sessions she may incorporate narrative and inner child work to address long-standing patterns, plus targeted techniques for grief, dissociation, or caregiving stress.
She aims to create a steady space where people can tell their story, try new ways of coping, and take practical steps toward change.
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What Yvette works with
The areas below are the ones Yvette selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Hawaii |
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Online support options
How her approaches translate to online care
Client-centered work focuses on meeting the person where they are and responding to what they say matters most. Online sessions use the same listening-first approach so goals come from the client's priorities and pace. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people notice and change patterns of thinking and behavior that cause distress, and it translates well to video or text-based work through exercises, worksheets, and between-session practice. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills; these tools can be taught and practiced in sessions and reinforced via messages between meetings.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively to pick or blend methods that fit the client's goals and daily life. People try a method, give feedback, and adjust so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people connect. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a camera is not desired. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to check in between sessions, share short updates, or do brief coaching-style exchanges. These options let people fit care into work, caregiving, or travel without changing the therapeutic focus.
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