Practitioner record · Checked 9 Oct 2026
Dr. Chayah Stoneberg has been in practice 5 years and is licensed in South Carolina. Dr. lists stress, Anxiety, relationship issues and self esteem among 65 subjects on the BetterHelp roster.
Everything below is either quoted from Dr.'s own BetterHelp listing, taken from public licensing records, or written by Maker Therapy and labelled as such. Nothing here is an availability promise, a review, or a rating.
01 · Who Dr. works with
Dr. lists 16 specialisms and 49 further focus areas. Specialisms are the subjects Dr. chose to list first, which is the closest a listing gets to “this is my actual practice”.
02 · In Dr.'s own words
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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.
Dr. Chayah Stoneberg, on the BetterHelp listing · read 9 Oct 2026
03 · What happens next
Dr. practises through BetterHelp, so the route in is BetterHelp's. This is that sequence, written by Maker Therapy from the platform's published process - not a description of Dr.'s own practice, and not a promise about how quickly anything happens.
BetterHelp opens with a set of questions about what you are dealing with, what you want from therapy, and any preferences on the therapist. You are not booking Dr. at this point.
BetterHelp matches algorithmically by default, so asking for Dr. is a step you have to take. There is a field for requesting a specific therapist during sign-up, and you can switch afterwards from your account. Starting from a link on this page does not by itself assign you to Dr..
You will be offered somebody else rather than put on a waitlist. Worth knowing, because it is easy to assume a match is the person you asked for.
A first session is typically history and orientation: what brought you, what has been tried, what you want to be different. It is also where the questions in the next section belong.
Changing therapist on BetterHelp does not need a reason. A first session that does not click is common and is not a verdict on therapy. That option existing is the main practical difference between a platform and a private practice.
04 · Before you commit
Built from what Dr. actually lists, so they are answerable and specific rather than generic. Maker Therapy's, not Dr.'s - Dr. has not seen them and is under no obligation to answer any of them.
“How do you decide when someone is ready to work on a traumatic memory itself?”
Pacing is the biggest safety question in trauma work. A clear, unhurried answer here matters more than any credential.
“How do you handle the gap between sessions if something comes up?”
On BetterHelp this varies a great deal by therapist. Better to know the rhythm now than to discover it on a bad week.
05 · Practical details
06 · Provenance
Dr.'s name, credential, state, subjects, approaches and biography are read from BetterHelp's therapist roster, which Maker Therapy re-reads once a day; this page reflects the reading taken on 9 Oct 2026. The licence number and NPI are cross-checked against public registers.
The plain-English method descriptions, the first-session walkthrough and the questions are written by Maker Therapy and labelled as such wherever they appear.
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