About Betty
Betty Laird is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in Indiana with four decades of practice. She focuses on creating a steady, listening presence for people facing stress, loss, mood changes, and ADHD. Her work begins by offering a calm space to name what’s hard and notice patterns that get in the way of everyday life.
With long experience in grief and trauma, she helps people who are coping with loss, compassion fatigue, anxiety, and depression.
Background and approach
She also supports those navigating relationship pain, intimacy challenges, and parenting stress. ADHD appears among the concerns she addresses, alongside issues such as sleep and eating problems, anger, and self-esteem difficulties. Betty blends approaches that center the client and the relationship.
She draws on attachment-based ideas to understand how early connections shape current reactions. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thoughts and try practical alternatives. Her style is gentle and straightforward.
Sessions are a chance to talk through feelings, test small changes, and practice new ways of responding. She sometimes uses film to open conversation about patterns and choices. People who come to her often want a steady guide rather than quick fixes.
Betty offers that steadying presence while helping people set realistic goals. She works with each person’s pace and priorities to support real, manageable change.
How these approaches work online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early bonds shape current relationships and reactions; online sessions use conversation to map patterns and practice new ways of relating. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s experience, so the therapist listens closely and follows the client’s priorities to set goals and next steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and tries small behavioral experiments to test different outcomes. It’s useful for anxiety, mood shifts, ADHD-related routines, and sleeping or eating concerns by breaking problems into steps that can be practiced between sessions.
Choosing an approach is collaborative. The therapist will discuss options and tailor methods to the client’s needs, goals, and preferences rather than imposing a single path. This is an ongoing conversation during the first few sessions so adjustments can be made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls work well when face-to-face interaction matters. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief updates and ongoing reflection between scheduled sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy days while keeping a consistent therapeutic relationship.
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What this therapist works with
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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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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