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Katherine Cosimano, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and a member of the Academy of Certified Social Workers (ACSW), has twenty years of experience providing individual, family, and group psychotherapeutic treatment for children and adults.
Wherever you are on your journey, Katherine will meet you there with the experience and expertise to help. She has treated people with Clinical Depression, Anxiety and Panic Disorders, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Grief and Loss, Attachment Disorders, Adjustment Disorders, Personality Disorders, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Tourette Syndrome, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Addiction, Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Eating Disorders, Bi-Polar Disorder, and more.
In addition to teaching the Soul Restoration course, Katherine has led therapeutic groups on countless topics, including social skills, anger management, positive parenting, building self-esteem, communication skills, relaxation techniques, healthy relationships, life transitions, pursuing your passions, optimism and positivity, building tools for self-calming, setting and holding boundaries, being your most authentic self, and many more.
Katherine brings the cumulation of her vast experience and expertise to every group session she teaches. Using the original curriculum and expanding upon it with her specific experience and expertise in psychology and neuroscience, Katherine executes this epic group training retreat that you will not want to miss.
Meet The Blue Blanket Professionals
With a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology and a Master of Clinical Social Work, Katherine Cosimano is currently licensed as an ACSW, LCSW in both Florida and North Carolina. She is also a Certified Art Healer.
In addition to treating clients in a private practice setting for ten years, Katherine worked for many years in a nonprofit setting treating children and teens. She has worked at a Hospice Children’s Program, at an inpatient hospital, as an elementary school therapist, and as an Emergency Room Patient Advocate at The Cleveland Clinic in Stuart, Florida. Katherine served as an individual therapist to students and teachers directly affected by the mass shooting at Marjorie Stoneman High School in Parkland, Florida, and is currently working with students and teachers affected by the school mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas. She is also currently treating clients through the Give An Hour nonprofit organization.
Katherine is a member of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). She volunteers teaching art therapy to residents at Transformation Village of Buncombe County. She manages a Question and Answer page at the nonprofit organization Arms Around Autism Spectrum Disorder.
For many years, Katherine was a member of the International Critical Incident Stress Management Team, which provides trauma and crisis intervention to first responders following disasters and other traumatic incidents. Katherine has been a Disaster First Responder, was part of the Disaster Action Team, and a Shelter Manager for the American Red Cross for over ten years.
Katherine volunteered for several years as a Holiday Grief Camp Counselor for Hospice of the Treasure Coast, served on the Board of Directors for the Port Saint Lucie, FL National Little League Association, and volunteered for many years for the March of Dimes, The Alzheimer’s Association, The American Heart Association, and The American Cancer Society.
She and her Australian Shepherd, Lucy, certified by Therapy Dog International, Inc., worked together as a team in diverse venues such as nursing homes, child welfare camps, and weekly visits to the Autism Spectrum Disorders classroom at Palm Point Research School in Port Saint Lucie, FL. Perhaps most significantly, they spent many days together in Parkland, Florida immediately following the mass school shooting there.
Katherine Cosimano, ACSW, LCSW
Executive Director
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Maureen is the Operations Manager for The Blue Blanket, overseeing all operational and financial components of the organization. She is proficient in most office software systems, with negotiating and putting into place a variety of insurance programs, handling customer service, training and overseeing all other staff in the office.
Maureen has 23 years experience as an Operations Manager of a busy dental office where she supervised staff, handled all financial, insurance, and computer processing.
Maureen Cullen
Operations Manager
Meet The Blue Blanket Professionals
Maureen is the Operations Manager for The Blue Blanket, overseeing all operational and financial components of the organization. She is proficient in most office software systems, with negotiating and putting into place a variety of insurance programs, handling customer service, training and overseeing all other staff in the office.
Maureen has 23 years experience as an Operations Manager of a busy dental office where she supervised staff, handled all financial, insurance, and computer processing.
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Kevin manages strategic marketing and communications as well as development for The Blue Blanket. His previous professional stops include a long career at Delta Air Lines, followed by sports marketing consulting roles with agencies specializing in marketing activation and bid development for the hosting of the Olympic Games and the FIFA World Cup.
Kevin Donovan
Development Director
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Kevin manages strategic marketing and communications as well as development for The Blue Blanket. His previous professional stops include a long career at Delta Air Lines, followed by sports marketing consulting roles with agencies specializing in marketing activation and bid development for the hosting of the Olympic Games and the FIFA World Cup.
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Kevin manages strategic marketing and communications as well as development for The Blue Blanket. His previous professional stops include a long career at Delta Air Lines, followed by sports marketing consulting roles with agencies specializing in marketing activation and bid development for the hosting of the Olympic Games and the FIFA World Cup.
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Melody Ross is the founder of Soul Road Media and the creator of the Soul Restoration Curriculum. She is a lifelong writer and artist with a prolific career spanning nearly three decades in the art and design industry. Author of more than 20 books, she has also developed countless product lines under her own label as well as licensing her art across the world.
In 2009, as the founder of Brave Girls Club, Melody started creating courses and materials to utilize art and creativity for soul work. Since that time, she has created more than 50 courses and a large variety of beautiful life tools to help humans figure things out for themselves, believing that no one can truly know what we each want out of life better than ourselves, and that once a person knows what they truly want, they can go out and create it.
Melody now certifies healers, counselors and other life helpers to utilize her teaching methods and vast library of curriculum through her academy at Soul Road Media.
Melody Ross
Strategic Advisor
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Melody Ross is the founder of Soul Road Media and the creator of the Soul Restoration Curriculum. She is a lifelong writer and artist with a prolific career spanning nearly three decades in the art and design industry. Author of more than 20 books, she has also developed countless product lines under her own label as well as licensing her art across the world.
In 2009, as the founder of Brave Girls Club, Melody started creating courses and materials to utilize art and creativity for soul work. Since that time, she has created more than 50 courses and a large variety of beautiful life tools to help humans figure things out for themselves, believing that no one can truly know what we each want out of life better than ourselves, and that once a person knows what they truly want, they can go out and create it.
Melody now certifies healers, counselors and other life helpers to utilize her teaching methods and vast library of curriculum through her academy at Soul Road Media.
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Chasity brings a vast amount of knowledge and experience of yoga and forest bathing to our Team.
Chasity is a Certified Yoga Teacher with a wide variety of teaching experiences with people of different ages and levels of experience. She enjoys sharing the healing qualities of yoga with others: from pain relief in the body to reducing stress, and bringing balance to one’s life, physically, mentally, and emotionally.
Chasity Heck
Certified Yoga Teacher
Meet The Blue Blanket Professionals
Chasity brings a vast amount of knowledge and experience of yoga and forest bathing to our Team.
Chasity is a Certified Yoga Teacher with a wide variety of teaching experiences with people of different ages and levels of experience. She enjoys sharing the healing qualities of yoga with others: from pain relief in the body to reducing stress, and bringing balance to one’s life, physically, mentally, and emotionally.
About The Name
The Blue Blanket takes its name from the origins and purpose of a blanket; it is a universal extension of humanity that overcomes the logistical challenges of a human hug by providing physical warmth, protection and an expression of human caring.
The act of giving a blanket to someone is, by itself, a simple message of empathy and emotional warmth. And our blanket is blue because this color represents intuition, inspiration, and sensitivity. It also represents calmness, relaxation, trust, sincerity, wisdom, confidence, stability, and reliability. In some cultures blue represents truth, mercy, love, and dignity. These are all values that The Blue Blanket embraces wholeheartedly.
Similarly, a blanket’s strength comes from the unity and interweaving of many thousands of threads, each stronger when brought together, each greater than the sum of its parts. The Blue Blanket symbolizes the coming together of humanity to comfort, nurture and heal others in need – a perfect metaphor for mending and weaving together the fragmented shreds of our mental health care system into a strong cohesive “blanket” that can deliver best practice mental health treatment effectively and efficiently; and the beauty of bringing hurting people together into groups where they find mutual support, validity, and true connection.
Just as a blanket was created out of necessity, so too was the creation of The Blue Blanket. That necessity is our shared mental health crisis, borne out by the data that touches all of us:
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Suicide was the leading cause of death in people ages 10-34 in 2022 (CDC)
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Suicide increased 30% between 2000 and 2020 (CDC)
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21% of adults experienced mental illness in 2022. That’s 1 in 5 or 50 million Americans (NAMI)
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24% of adults reported symptoms of depression in 2022 (U.S. News & World Report)
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Anxiety affected 40 million adults in the U.S. in 2022 (ADAA)
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66% of the U.S. workforce experienced burnout in 2022 (Forbes)
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89% of HR/Benefits leaders say mental health support is a high priority (AMA)
Finally, a blanket was created out of necessity, as a simple way to provide so much to so many — warmth, comfort, rest, protection, the ability to relax, calm, soothe, to provide shelter, security, even enjoyment or companionship.
Accordingly, the goal of The Blue Blanket is to provide tools and education —
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To help calm anxiety
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To provide warmth and compassion through care and counseling
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To soothe a deep-rooted ache
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To shelter the mind from outside stresses
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To help relax by easing the worry
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To experience peace and joy again with a proper recovery plan
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To feel security in renewed self confidence
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To find the ability to rest using strategies that tackle overexertion or overthinking
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To find comfort by reworking though patterns
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To discover companionship through group therapy or support groups
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To protect overall health by improving mental health