About Betty
Betty Laird is a licensed clinical social worker in Indiana with four decades of practice. She brings long experience to conversations about stress, grief, anxiety, mood shifts, and relationship challenges. Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at helping people feel heard and understood.
Betty sees therapy as a partnership. She offers a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk about pain, losses, and overwhelming feelings. Sessions focus on real life changes and practical ways to cope, not jargon or labels.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with grief and loss, fertility and adoption concerns, trauma and PTSD, compassion fatigue, anxiety, depression, and a range of mood and personality challenges. She also attends to issues like body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and attachment patterns. In sessions she draws on approaches that center the relationship and personal meaning.
That can mean looking at how early bonds shape current responses, or using practical strategies to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. She sometimes uses film as a tool to explore feelings, choices, and coping in a concrete way. People who come to Betty tend to want straightforward guidance and a steady presence.
She helps clients untangle confusing feelings, develop coping skills, and make clearer decisions about next steps. Her aim is to walk alongside people as they rebuild balance and move through life transitions.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships influence current feelings and reactions. It helps people understand patterns in close relationships and find new ways to connect. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety or depressive symptoms. It is practical and goal oriented, useful for stress, mood, and sleep problems. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person in the room - the therapist listens deeply without judgment and follows the clients pace to build insight and confidence.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and will try different ways of working until something fits. That collaboration helps shape the plan and keeps sessions focused on what matters to the client.
Online therapy offers flexible options like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when video is not convenient, live chat works for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep steady contact during life changes.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English