Hope Scoles , MN Psychologist LP0405

Hope Scoles is a Minnesota psychologist with 30 years of experience helping people facing grief, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. She works with people who are struggling with stress, relationship and intimacy concerns, addictions, sleep and eating issues, and career or parenting stress. Hope also supports people dealing with ADHD, bipolar concerns, compassion fatigue, and women's issues.

Her style is straightforward and strength-focused. She views each person as the expert on their life and helps them build practical skills. Sessions often involve talking through current challenges, identifying small steps forward, and practicing new ways to cope.

Hope draws on approaches like dialectical behavior therapy and mindfulness to teach emotion regulation and present-moment awareness. She also uses solution-focused techniques to set clear goals and Internal Family Systems ideas to notice different parts of oneself when emotions run high. These tools are used to address problems like grief, commitment anxiety, or work stress.

She pays attention to spiritual questions that can come up around loss and life transitions, and she helps people find resilience while honoring what they value. Hope frames therapy as a collaborative process where progress comes from both skills practice and honest conversation.

Hope is licensed as a Minnesota Psychologist, credential MN Psychologist LP0405, and offers services from Minnesota. Sessions are conducted in English and delivered through multiple online formats to fit different needs.

How her approaches translate to online care

Hope uses dialectical behavior therapy and mindfulness therapy to help people manage intense emotions and stay present. DBT focuses on teaching concrete emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills that can be practiced between sessions. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce rumination and increase calm.

She treats online care as a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to figure out which approach or combination feels most useful, adjusting methods based on goals, preferences, and how a client responds in early sessions.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which makes therapy easier to fit into busy lives. Video is helpful for face-to-face conversation and skill demonstrations, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text can be useful for brief check-ins or step-by-step coaching, and mixed formats allow people to choose what fits their schedule. These options aim to increase flexibility and make it easier to practice skills consistently.