Dr. Chayah Stoneberg, LISW-CP

Dr. Chayah Stoneberg is a Licensed Independent Social Worker - Clinical Practice (LISW-CP) practicing from South Carolina. She combines psychotherapy with her background in literature and the arts to help people through grief, life transitions, and ongoing emotional challenges. Her approach often brings creative forms of expression into talk-based work.

She draws on five years of clinical experience in private practice and program leadership. That work has included roles with counseling and palliative arts programs and teaching in higher education. The mix of settings informs how she balances practical coping strategies with expressive techniques.

In sessions she introduces plain, usable tools for stress, anxiety, sleep problems, and mood concerns. She also addresses relationship and intimacy-related worries, parenting strain, work stress, and career questions. When relevant, she talks about attention-related concerns, bipolar mood patterns, and coping with chronic illness or grief.

Her practice often includes arts-based activities such as poetry and visual expression alongside more structured behavioral methods. Clients can expect to look at thoughts and behaviors, try small experiments between sessions, and use creative prompts to access difficult feelings. The goal is clearer choices and manageable next steps.

Dr. Stoneberg offers services in English and accepts international clients. Prospective clients start by using the Start Therapy button and completing a short matching questionnaire to schedule an appointment.

Blending evidence-based tools with creative methods online

Dr. Stoneberg regularly integrates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) into her work, which helps people clarify values and take small committed actions even when strong emotions are present. ACT is useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life transitions.

She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) techniques to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and test new behaviors. CBT is practical for mood concerns, sleep problems, and managing worry. Alongside these, she brings arts-informed practices such as guided poetry or visual expression to help people access and process difficult emotions that don’t always come out in conversation.

Choosing the right combination of approaches is collaborative. The therapist and client review goals and preferences and adjust methods as work progresses. That means ACT, CBT, or arts practices may be emphasized at different times depending on what helps most.

The biography indicates she currently operates online, but session formats were not fully specified. Confirm the available session options when scheduling. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, shorten check-ins when needed, reduce travel time, and allow for different modes of interaction such as talking or using creative exercises during a session.