- Years in practice
- 40
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
- Focus
- Grief
About Betty
Betty Laird is a licensed clinical social worker with four decades of experience in Indiana. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, grief, anxiety, or major life changes. Betty aims to offer steady, compassionate support while clients talk through what matters most to them.
She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can name their struggles and try new ways of coping. Sessions often look like guided conversations about feelings, relationships, and practical steps to feel better.
Background and approach
Betty values the relationship itself as a place where change can begin. Her background includes long experience with grief and loss, fertility and adoption concerns, compassion fatigue, trauma and PTSD, mood disorders, and anxiety and depression. She has worked with a wide range of life issues that include parenting, sleep and eating difficulties, and career transitions.
Betty also addresses attachment and communication problems that get in the way of daily life. Betty draws on several familiar methods to help people meet their goals. She uses client-centered listening to understand each person’s point of view.
Cognitive tools are used when thoughts and behaviors need sorting. Emotionally-focused and attachment-based ideas guide work on relationships and connection. People who want steady, experienced guidance and practical conversation about coping and parenting concerns often find her approach useful.
Betty describes herself as companionable and direct, helping clients take small, manageable steps toward clearer routines and healthier reactions.
What Betty works with
Everything Betty lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Betty helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Depression
- Compassion fatigue
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Betty lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approaches that guide online work
Betty uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early and current relationships shape feelings and reactions. That approach helps when connection and trust are central concerns and when relationship patterns affect parenting or emotional response.She also uses client-centered therapy, which centers the conversation on the person in front of her. This means sessions begin by hearing the client's experience and building the pace and goals around what matters most to them.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, often shortened to CBT, is another tool she uses to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behavior experiments. CBT is useful for anxiety, sleep problems, mood shifts, and practical coping skills many people want.
Betty approaches online work collaboratively. She will help clients choose which methods fit their situation and adjust the plan as goals evolve. That decision is shared and reviewed over time so therapy stays relevant to daily life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people read facial cues and have fuller conversations, while phone calls can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can fit busy schedules and allow brief check-ins between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or other routines.
Questions people ask about Betty
What concerns does Betty commonly address?
She helps with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, trauma and related issues like compassion fatigue, parenting challenges, sleep and eating problems.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her style is calm and nonjudgmental, focusing on listening, practical coping, and using the relationship itself to support change.
What kind of experience does she bring?
She has 40 years of clinical experience working with mood disorders, trauma, grief, adoption and related life challenges.
Where is she licensed and practicing?
She is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in Indiana.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging as options for meeting.
How is cost handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I get started with therapy?
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