Dr. Chayah Stoneberg

Dr. Chayah Stoneberg is a psychotherapist, educator, and spoken word artist based in Columbia, South Carolina who brings the humanities and arts into clinical work. Her grounding in literature and palliative arts informs an approach that helps people process grief, loss, and emotional distress through creative and narrative practices.

Stoneberg maintains a private practice and holds licensure as a Licensed Independent Social Worker - Clinical Practice in South Carolina (SC LISW-CP 18119). Her clinical focus spans trauma, anxiety, depression, personality disorders, and working with veterans, and she also works with concerns such as stress, relationship and intimacy issues, self-esteem, ADHD, parenting, sleep difficulties, anger, career transitions, bipolar disorder, and coping with life changes. She draws on modalities including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Art Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).

As director of arts programming at Palliative Arts, Stoneberg centers humanities-based methods for grief, loss, and bereavement, employing poetry, visual arts, and expressive movement to help people work through difficult emotions. She has worked with Hopeful Counseling & Psychiatry and currently provides services online.

In higher education, Stoneberg has taught at multiple institutions and served as Assistant Professor of Humanities and Writing Center Director at Allen University from 2013 to 2017. She has five years of experience practicing therapy.