About Evelyn
Evelyn (Jeanie) Cosmai brings three decades of experience to her work as a clinician in Florida. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) who helps people feeling stuck or at a crossroads. Her focus includes stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and family concerns, and struggles with self-esteem and intimacy.
Jeanie centers sessions on each person’s values and strengths. She listens without judgment and helps clients clarify what matters to them.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to identify small, practical steps clients can take to feel steadier and more able to handle life’s pressures. Her approach blends client-centered methods with cognitive behavioral tools and mindfulness exercises. That means conversations focus on what the client wants, while also teaching skills to shift unhelpful thoughts and reactions.
Jeanie also uses elements of dialectical behavior therapy and motivational interviewing when they fit a person’s goals. Jeanie works with people facing parenting strain, caregiver stress, adoption or foster care questions, and age-related concerns. She also supports those dealing with family of origin issues, divorce and separation, codependency, and the emotional fallout of disaster or loss.
Common goals include improving communication, managing anger, and rebuilding after grief. Practicality guides her style. Sessions often include simple at-home practices, short behavioral experiments, and goal-setting to track progress between meetings.
Jeanie aims to help people regain a sense of direction and more satisfying daily routines.
Approaches that guide online work
Jeanie uses client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy as cornerstones of her online practice. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and helping people discover their own goals and values. Cognitive behavioral therapy teaches straightforward tools to spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that keep problems stuck.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy when emotions feel overwhelming. DBT supplies concrete skills for managing intense feelings, improving relationships, and tolerating distress without making things worse. Together these approaches aim to teach skills while honoring each person’s priorities and beliefs.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Jeanie will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels useful. She adapts methods based on progress and feedback so the plan reflects real needs and fits into daily life.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when schedules permit. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth or camera use is difficult. Live chat and text messaging support brief check-ins, quick skill reminders, and ongoing accountability between longer sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- 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