Dr. Chayah Stoneberg
Creative clinician helping parents and adults cope
- Credentials
- LISW-CP
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed in
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Chayah
Dr. Chayah Stoneberg is a Licensed Independent Social Worker - Clinical Practice (LISW-CP) based in South Carolina. She blends clinical training with a background in literature and the arts to help people handle stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns.
Her approach is practical and straightforward, aimed at parents and adults who need clear tools and a calm space to talk. Stoneberg draws on her work directing arts programming at a palliative arts practice to help people process grief, loss, and intense feelings.
Background and approach
She brings poetry, visual art, and expressive movement into sessions when it helps someone name emotions or move through them. These creative options sit alongside more familiar therapy techniques so people can choose what fits. Her clinical license is SC LISW-CP 18119 and she has five years of practice experience.
She also taught humanities and ran a university writing center, which shaped her focus on words, narrative, and meaning-making. That background influences how she listens and how she helps clients tell their stories more clearly. Therapy sessions tend to be collaborative and goal-focused.
Stoneberg works with clients to build coping skills, improve communication, and address issues like parenting strain, intimacy concerns, self-esteem, and career stress. She offers direct strategies as well as creative exercises to try between sessions. Sessions are offered in English and can take place online through video, phone, chat, or text-based messaging.
Dr. Stoneberg accepts international clients and adapts methods to fit each person’s life and schedule.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Dr. Stoneberg frequently combines cognitive behavioral techniques with expressive, humanities-based methods. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life actions to reduce anxiety and lift mood. It gives practical steps people can use between sessions.She also offers Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), which helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting ruled by them, then choose actions that match their values. When appropriate, creative practices such as poetry, visual arts, or movement are introduced to help process grief and strong emotions in a different way.
Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. She works with each person to decide which techniques feel helpful and adjusts the plan as needs and goals evolve. Clients are invited to weigh in on what feels useful and what should change.
Online therapy makes these methods more accessible. Video calls can recreate a face-to-face conversation, phone sessions offer a simpler option, and live chat or text-based messaging can fit into busy days. These formats allow for flexible scheduling and continued work even when life gets hectic, while still focusing on practical skills and creative exercises that move progress forward.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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