About Betty
Betty Laird is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) practicing in Indiana with four decades of experience. She approaches therapy with respect for each person’s resilience and real-life struggles. Betty aims to offer a steady, listening presence where clients can talk about pain, loss, and stress without judgment.
She creates a calm space to explore how people see themselves and others. Sessions focus on practical coping skills and clearer communication, not on jargon.
How Betty works
Betty draws on attachment-based ideas and emotionally focused work to help people understand important relationships and how those patterns affect daily life. Cognitive behavioral techniques are used to spot and shift unhelpful thinking and behavior. Existential perspectives help when people face big life questions or changes.
The therapist sometimes uses cinematherapy - watching and discussing film scenes - to investigate coping, identity, and conflict resolution. Betty has long experience with grief, trauma and abuse, anxiety, depression, compassion fatigue, and mood concerns including bipolar disorder. She also supports people dealing with parenting stress, relationship and intimacy-related issues, body image, eating and sleeping concerns, and ADHD.
Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care, attachment issues, aging concerns, chronic illness and caregiver stress. Sessions are offered in English and provided through online formats such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule appointments according to therapist availability.
Betty lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
What Betty works with
The areas below are the ones Betty selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- 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
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 40 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Indiana |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How Betty’s approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationship patterns shape feelings and behavior. Online sessions use conversation to identify those patterns and practice different ways of relating in everyday life. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s experience and values what the client brings; the therapist listens deeply and follows what matters most to the client while helping them make sense of their choices and goals.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and trying new behaviors to feel better. In remote work this means setting small experiments, tracking thoughts between sessions, and reviewing progress together. Betty will work with each person to choose approaches that match their needs and preferences rather than assuming one method fits all.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. She discusses options, tries techniques, and adjusts as goals evolve so the plan fits the client’s life and priorities. Online formats make that collaboration flexible and practical.
Video calls let people use visual cues and deeper conversation, while phone sessions can be a simpler check-in on low bandwidth. Live chat or text-based messaging can support shorter updates, mood tracking, brief problem-solving, or keeping work going between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and different routines.
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A practical next step
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