Welcome to
Calm Place Therapy
for Adolescents
and Adults

Telehealth — Mental Health Counseling
New York / New Jersey / Florida

Allied Safe Space for Neurodiverse, Multicultural, and LGBTQ+ Individuals

Practice Areas

Calm Place Therapy helps clients with traumatic events (single incident and childhood developmental); recovery from narcissistic abuse; intimate relationship issues; difficult family dynamics; grief and loss; life transitions; and, substance misuse. Therapy treatment modalities are focused on the symptom resolution, reduction or management of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), anxiety (generalized, panic, social, phobias, OCD), depression, as well as related to ADHD for optimal executive functioning.

Therapeutic Approach

Individuals often feel alone in their struggles whether interpersonally, emotionally or related to difficult work environments. Therapy provides a supportive connection that helps normalize life challenges and the range of human experiences.

From a client-centered perspective, the therapeutic relationship is vital to healing. Sessions are a collaborative process whereby clients work towards their goals whether centered on improving day-to-day functioning, ingrained behavioral or thinking patterns, resolving relationship issues, facilitating decision making or reducing triggering autonomic nervous system “fight-flight-freeze” responses.‍

Integrative Treatment Modalities

Somatic Therapy & Mindfulness
Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR)
Internal Family Systems (IFS)-informed
Psychodynamic-informed
Client-centered & Strengths-based
Motivational Interviewing (MI)
Dialectal Behavior Therapy (DBT)-informed
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

About Me

Cheryl Delaney, LMHC-D

Cheryl Delaney is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with a practice centered on helping adolescents and adults to heal from trauma with Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy, integrated with Somatic Therapy and Internal Family Systems (IFS)-informed approaches.
Cheryl is an EMDRIA Certified Therapist, (EMDR International Association, EMDRIA.org), and a Somatic EMDR Practitioner (Embody Lab). Her continuing education focus is on developmental trauma or Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE).
An Internal Family Systems (IFS)-informed approach addresses “parts” of self, which helps clients gain new insights and move towards self-compassion.
EMDR therapy allows individuals to address negative cognitions, emotions, and body sensations in order to embody positive “resources” and a renewed felt sense of self.
Somatic EMDR integrates therapeutic tools to guide clients through what is often referenced as The Body Keeps the Score (Bessel van der Kolk) with respect to how trauma is not what happens, but how it is stored in the nervous system (Levine, Maté, Ogden).
From a similar perspective, clients embark on a journey of self-discovery to transcend “what we resist, persists” (Jung).
Cheryl's approach includes "talk therapy," as many clients request this for emotional support, strengths-based resourcing, and self-understanding.
An essential component is the therapeutic rapport. Emotional attunement by the therapist creates safety and movement towards self-compassion, which is at the heart of all healing.
Prior to working in private practice, Cheryl’s experience included individual and group counseling for dual diagnosed adolescents and adults in outpatient substance abuse clinics.
Cheryl’s aim is to provide a safe allied space for clients including multicultural, neurodiverse, and LGBTQ+ individuals.
The practice name, Calm Place Therapy, draws from an EMDR grounding resource called “calm place.”

“Question: What do patients [clients] recall when they look back, years later, on their experience in therapy? Answer: Not insight, not the therapist’s interpretations. More often than not, they remember the positive supportive statements of their therapist. I make a point of regularly expressing my positive thoughts and feelings about my patients along a wide range of attributes—for example, their social skills, intellectual curiosity, warmth, loyalty to their friends, articulateness, courage in facing their inner demons, dedication to change, willingness to self-disclose, loving gentleness with their children, commitment to breaking the cycle of abuse, and decision not to pass on the “hot potato” to the next generation.”
-Irvin D. Yalom, The Gift of Therapy:
An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and their Patients