About Chayah
Dr. Chayah Stoneberg is a Licensed Independent Social Worker - Clinical Practice (LISW-CP) based in South Carolina. She brings five years of clinical experience and a background in the humanities to work with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and related concerns.
Her approach often blends verbal therapy with creative expression to help people make sense of hard feelings. Stoneberg pairs evidence-based therapeutic techniques with arts-based practices drawn from literature, poetry, and visual expression.
Background and approach
Sessions may include talking through problems, learning new coping strategies, and using creative exercises to access emotion. She aims to make therapy practical and relevant to daily life. Her professional path includes work in independent practice and roles directing arts programs that focus on grief, loss, and bereavement.
Those experiences shape how she helps people process mourning, chronic illness, and life transitions. She also has experience teaching in higher education and running writing centers. Clients come to Stoneberg for common concerns such as relationship strain, low self-esteem, sleep problems, anger, and career stress.
She also supports people dealing with compassion fatigue, parenting strain, bipolar disorder, and identity questions related to LGBT concerns. Her additional focus areas include attachment and communication problems, body image, chronic health issues, and commitment struggles. Therapy is offered online through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
International clients who speak English can work with her. People interested in starting are asked to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a session.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice and accept difficult thoughts and feelings while choosing actions that align with their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life actions to reduce symptoms like worry, low mood, and sleep problems. Art-based expressive practices use poetry, visual arts, and movement to access emotions that can be hard to name and to create new ways of making meaning after loss or illness.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide which techniques to try first, then adjusts based on what feels most helpful. Goals, personal preferences, and day-to-day demands guide those choices so therapy fits the client's life.
Online therapy lets people connect from different locations using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and creative exercises that benefit from seeing one another. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat or messaging supports shorter check-ins and ongoing coaching-style contact between sessions. These options make scheduling more flexible and reduce the need to travel to appointments.
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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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