Betty Laird, LCSW

Based in Indiana 40 years in practice Online sessions

Compassionate LCSW helping people navigate strong emotions

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How Betty works

Practical facts

Credentials: LCSW
Licensed in: Indiana
Years in practice: 40
Languages: English
Session format: Online, through our partner platform

About Betty

Betty Laird is a licensed clinical social worker in Indiana with forty years of experience. She brings a steady, compassionate presence and a long history of working with people facing stress, grief, and complex life changes. Betty creates a calm space where someone can talk about pain, questions, and hopes without judgment.

She helps people facing anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and compassion fatigue. She also supports those coping with relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, anger, and self-esteem issues.

Background and approach

Her work includes attention to adoption and foster care challenges, aging and caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, and neurodiversity topics like autism and ADHD. Betty uses several therapy approaches that focus on relationships and feelings. She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early connections shape current bonds.

She also uses client-centered methods to follow each person’s pace and priorities, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. Sessions may include practical tools, gentle exploration of past losses, and exercises to change patterns in relationships. She sometimes incorporates cinematherapy - watching and discussing film scenes to see patterns of coping and conflict.

That can make difficult topics easier to talk about. Betty aims for clear, honest conversation and steady support. She works with people across many concerns including bipolar disorder, eating and sleep problems, career stress, and coping with major life transitions.

Her style is collaborative, respectful, and grounded in decades of practice.

What Betty works with

Everything Betty lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Betty's practice.

Approaches Betty lists

Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.

How therapy approaches translate to online sessions

Attachment-based work looks at how early bonds shape current reactions and relationships. Online sessions can include conversations that track patterns in relationships and exercises to try different ways of connecting and responding. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and following the person's pace; in remote sessions that can mean open conversation, reflective feedback, and adapting the rhythm to what feels right for the client. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, concentrates on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. Over video or phone, CBT can include straightforward skill teaching, thought records, and brief behavioral experiments to practice between sessions.

Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will ask about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before, then together they will try methods that fit the person's needs. That collaborative process may shift over time as goals change or new issues arise.

Online formats offer practical benefits: video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth or camera use is limited, live chat can be used for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep regular contact with a licensed professional.

Questions people ask about Betty

What kinds of concerns does this therapist address?

She works with stress, anxiety, grief, trauma and abuse, depression, anger, relationship and intimacy-related issues, and many related concerns such as parenting strain, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and ADHD.

How would you describe the therapy style and approach?

The approach is collaborative and relationship-centered, using attachment-based, client-centered, and cognitive behavioral techniques to explore patterns and teach practical skills.

What is the therapist's background and experience?

She has forty years of clinical experience and is a licensed clinical social worker, with extensive work addressing grief, trauma, compassion fatigue, mood concerns, and adoption-related issues.

Where is the therapist located and licensed?

The clinician is licensed as an LCSW in Indiana and practices from that state.

What languages are sessions offered in?

Sessions are offered in English.

Which session formats are available for online work?

Sessions can take place via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on client preference.

How are fees and payment handled?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

What are the steps to begin working together?

To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to the therapist's availability.