Dr. Chayah Stoneberg is a psychotherapist, educator, and spoken word artist based in Columbia, South Carolina, known for integrating humanities and arts into her clinical practice. She uses her background in literature and palliative arts to help clients process grief, loss, and emotional distress.
Professional background
Psychotherapy: Stoneberg is a Licensed Independent Social Worker - Clinical Practice (LISW-CP) with a private practice in Columbia, South Carolina. Her specialties include trauma, anxiety, depression, personality disorders, and working with veterans. She integrates approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Art Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). She has worked with Hopeful Counseling & Psychiatry and currently operates online.
Palliative arts: As the director of arts programming at Palliative Arts, a practice dedicated to grief, loss, and bereavement, Stoneberg focuses on humanities-based approaches to relieve suffering. Her work uses practices such as poetry, visual arts, and expressive movement to process difficult emotions.
Higher education: Stoneberg has taught at several institutions.
She was an Assistant Professor of Humanities and the Writing Center Director at Allen University from 2013 to 2017.
Additional areas of focus: LGBT, Family conflicts, Intimacy-related issues, Sleeping disorders, Parenting issues, Anger management, Career difficulties, Bipolar disorder, Coping with life changes, Coaching, Compassion fatigue, Abandonment, Aging and geriatric issues, Antisocial personality, Attachment issues, Autism and Asperger Syndrome, Avoidant personality, Body image, Cancer, Chronic pain, illness, and disability, Co-morbidity, Codependency, Commitment issues, Communication problems, Control issues, Dependent personality, Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD), Dissociation, Divorce and separation, Eating and food-related issues, Emptiness, Family problems, First responder issues, Forgiveness, Gender dysphoria, Guilt and shame, Hoarding, Hospice and end-of-life counseling, Impulsivity, Infidelity, Isolation / loneliness, Jealousy, Life purpose, Midlife crisis, Money and financial issues, Mood disorders, Multicultural concerns, Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD, Panic disorder and panic attacks, Personality disorders, Phobias, Post-traumatic stress, Self-love, Sexual assault and abuse, Sexual dysfunction, Sexuality, Social anxiety and phobia, Women's issues, Workplace issues, Young adult issues
SC LISW-CP 18119