About Chayah
Dr. Chayah Stoneberg is a Licensed Independent Social Worker - Clinical Practice (LISW-CP) based in South Carolina. She combines psychotherapy with a background in literature and the arts to help people navigate difficult feelings and life changes.
Her style is down-to-earth and creative, and she brings five years of clinical experience to each session. Stoneberg blends talk therapy with expressive practices such as poetry and visual arts to help clients process grief, anxiety, and stress.
Background and approach
She also draws on approaches from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address depression, relationship worries, and self-esteem concerns. Sessions tend to be practical and focused on small, doable steps. Her work in palliative arts means she is comfortable supporting people through loss, chronic illness, and bereavement.
That background makes her skilled at helping people name hard feelings and find ways to live with them. She aims to make difficult conversations feel more manageable. Stoneberg has experience teaching humanities at the college level and directing arts programming for grief-focused work.
That mix of education and arts-led practice influences how she structures sessions and therapeutic activities. Clients can expect an approach that values creativity alongside structured therapeutic tools. She offers sessions online using video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
International clients who speak English can connect for remote work. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling through the platform.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Dr. Stoneberg commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that match their values; this is useful for anxiety, stress, and major life transitions. She also applies Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focusing on changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns to reduce symptoms of depression and worry. In addition, she integrates arts-informed practices such as poetry and visual expression to help people process grief and complex feelings in a nonverbal way.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. She will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then adapt exercises and creative methods to fit those needs. Clients and therapist make decisions together about techniques and pacing.
Online therapy lets people connect by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and guided expressive activities, phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be useful for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options help fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping the focus on progress and practical coping skills.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- 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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