About Evelyn
Evelyn (Jeanie) Cosmai is a licensed mental health counselor with 30 years of experience. She offers calm, practical support for people facing anxiety, depression, grief, and major life changes. Jeanie centers sessions on each person’s goals and what feels most useful to them in daily life.
She uses client-centered work to help clients feel heard and understood. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) tools are used to teach skills for managing intense emotions and changing unhelpful thinking patterns.
Background and approach
Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are added when helpful to build awareness and strengthen motivation. Jeanie has long helped people who feel stuck in relationships, family dynamics, or career decisions. She also supports parents who are weighed down by stress, caregivers with high burden, and those living with compassion fatigue.
Adoption and foster care concerns, aging and geriatric issues, and family of origin matters are among her additional focuses. Sessions address everyday struggles like anger, low self-esteem, loneliness, and difficulty with intimacy. Jeanie also helps people cope with divorce, separation, and grief after loss.
She frames work around practical steps clients can try between sessions. Based in Florida, Jeanie meets people in English and offers several online formats. Her approach is steady and respectful, aiming to highlight strengths and help people make choices that fit their values and goals.
How her approaches work in online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the individual, helping them feel understood and guiding the pace of change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks down problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete techniques to reduce anxiety and unhelpful thinking. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, adds skills for tolerating strong emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness when stress or relationships feel overwhelming.Choosing the right approach is part of the collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, try different techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. Clients and the therapist decide together which tools to practice between sessions and which focus fits current needs.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit into a short break or require less bandwidth, live chat and text messaging let people check in between calls or share brief updates. These formats make it easier to fit regular therapeutic work into a busy schedule and to continue progress from different locations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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