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Betty Laird, LCSW

  • Experience40 years
  • LocationIndiana
  • Focus areasADHD, Stress and Anxiety, and Trauma and abuse
  • Therapy approachesAttachment-Based Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy
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About Betty

Betty Laird is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) practicing in Indiana with 40 years of experience supporting people through complex life challenges. She views therapy as a collaborative journey, offering an accepting, nonjudgmental presence where clients can name their struggles, explore patterns, and build practical coping tools.

Background and approach

Her work often centers on stress, anxiety, grief, trauma and abuse, depression, and compassion fatigue, and she also includes ADHD among the concerns she addresses. Betty draws on a range of therapeutic models to meet individual needs, including attachment-focused and client-centered approaches as well as cognitive-behavioral and emotionally focused techniques.

She brings particular attention to relationship and intimacy issues, identity and LGBT concerns, parenting and family dynamics, mood disorders such as bipolar, and the ripple effects of chronic illness or caregiver stress. Film-based reflection or cinematherapy is sometimes used to help clients observe patterns and imagine new responses.

Throughout her career she has emphasized the therapeutic relationship as the engine of change, helping people move through grief, life transitions, and longstanding interpersonal wounds toward clearer understanding and better day-to-day functioning.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Support



Betty uses cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and develop practical strategies for changing behaviors and managing symptoms such as anxiety, depression, and attention difficulties. Attachment-based therapy is also a core part of her work and focuses on how early and current relationships shape emotional patterns, offering a way to repair connection and improve interpersonal functioning. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) informs her work with intimacy and relationship issues by helping clients recognize and reorganize emotional responses to create more stable bonds.

Finding the best therapeutic approach is a collaborative process. Betty works with each client to clarify goals, preferences, and what feels most useful in sessions, adjusting methods over time so treatment aligns with the client's needs and pace.

Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase convenience and accessibility. These formats allow clients to engage from their own home or other settings, schedule sessions more flexibly, and use different communication styles for check-ins or deeper work. Licensed professionals can adapt interventions across these modalities so that therapy remains practical and responsive even when it is not in person.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does Betty address?
She works with a wide range of issues including stress, anxiety, grief, trauma and abuse, depression, compassion fatigue, relationship and intimacy-related problems, eating and sleeping concerns, and ADHD among other areas.
What is Betty's therapeutic style like?
Her approach emphasizes a safe, nonjudgmental therapeutic relationship and blends client-centered, attachment-based, cognitive-behavioral, and emotionally focused methods to meet each person where they are.
How much clinical experience does she bring?
Betty has four decades of clinical experience supporting people through grief, trauma, mood and personality concerns, caregiving stress, and complex life transitions.
Where is Betty licensed and practicing?
She is an LCSW licensed in Indiana with license number IN LCSW 34000141A and provides services from that state.
Does she work with non-English speakers or international clients?
Sessions are offered in English, and she is not currently accepting international clients.
Which session formats are available?
Betty offers multiple remote formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different preferences and schedules.
How are fees and subscriptions handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided via a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the steps to begin working with her?
To get started, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietyTrauma and abuseGriefDepressionCompassion fatigue

Also works with

LGBTRelationship issuesFamily conflictsIntimacy-related issuesEating disordersSleeping disordersParenting issuesAnger managementSelf esteemCareer difficultiesBipolar disorderCoping with life changesADHD

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAdoption and foster careAging and geriatric issuesAttachment issuesAutism and Asperger SyndromeAvoidant personalityBlended family issuesBody imageCancerCaregiver issues and stressChronic pain, illness, and disabilityCo-morbidityCodependencyCommitment issuesCommunication problemsControl issuesCoping with natural or human-caused disasterDependent personalityDisruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)DissociationDivorce and separationDomestic violenceEating and food-related issuesEmptinessFamily of origin issuesFamily problemsFertility issuesFirst responder issuesForgivenessGender dysphoriaGuilt and shameHospice and end-of-life counselingImpulsivityInfidelityIsolation / lonelinessJealousyLife purposeMidlife crisisMood disordersNarcissismObsessions, compulsions, and OCDPanic disorder and panic attacksParanoiaPersonality disordersPhobiasPolyamory / non-monogamous relationshipsPostpartum depressionPost-traumatic stressPregnancy and childbirthPrejudice and discriminationProcess addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)Self-harmSelf-loveSexual assault and abuseSocial anxiety and phobiaSomatizationTrichotillomaniaVisually impairedWomen's issuesWorkplace issuesYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Attachment-Based TherapyClient-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)Existential TherapyMindfulness TherapyMotivational InterviewingNarrative TherapyPsychodynamic TherapySolution-Focused TherapyTrauma-Focused Therapy

Experience

40+ years

Licensed

Indiana

Languages

English

What Betty can help with

Betty Laird works with clients on stress and anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and compassion fatigue.

Betty works with grief and loss issues, fertility and adoption challenges, compassion fatigue, and trauma and PTSD.

How Betty approaches therapy

Betty's clinical approaches include Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), Existential Therapy, Mindfulness Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Narrative Therapy.

Experience and training

Betty is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker practicing in Indiana.

Betty trained at Loyola University in Chicago.