Yvette Skope, LMFT

Yvette Skope is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist - LMFT - practicing on the Big Island of Hawaii. She has six years of clinical experience working with youth and families in intensive in-home settings and with adults in community mental health. Her main areas of focus include stress, anxiety, relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, depression, addictions, grief, codependency, and related challenges.

She leans on client-centered care and practical therapies to help people name what they want to change. Sessions tend to focus on clear goals and small, concrete steps. She uses talk work alongside experiential ideas like inner child and shadow work when those approaches fit a person’s goals.

Yvette draws from several therapeutic models to match different problems. You may see techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to address unhelpful thinking, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills for emotion regulation, and Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) for relationship patterns. She also brings ideas from solution-focused, structural, narrative, and collaborative approaches when useful.

Her training includes a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Hawaii at Hilo and a Master’s degree in Family Therapy from Argosy University. The LMFT credential listed reflects her Hawaii licensure. She has experience with grief work, Internal Family Systems concepts, CBT, DBT, and sand tray therapy from practicum and clinical training.

People who come for help often want clearer boundaries, less people-pleasing, or better ways to handle a partner's moods or substance use. Yvette works with clients to identify practical changes and to practice different ways of responding in day-to-day life.

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