Betty Laird

Betty Laird is an LCSW practicing in Indiana with forty years of clinical experience. She trained at Loyola University in Chicago and brings a perspective shaped by long-term work with trauma, grief, mood concerns, and relational struggles. Her practice emphasizes the therapeutic relationship as the vehicle for exploring pain, perceptions, and pathways forward.

She works with a wide range of concerns, including stress and anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief and depression, compassion fatigue, eating and sleeping difficulties, parenting and family matters, intimacy and relationship issues, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and career or life change challenges. Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care, attachment issues, caregiving stress, chronic illness and pain, and body image and self-esteem concerns. Clinical approaches include Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, Existential Therapy, and Mindfulness Therapy.

Betty also incorporates cinematherapy as a tool to examine personality, coping, and conflict resolution. She frames work in a nonjudgmental environment where exploration and resilience are central themes, and where clients and therapist collaborate to identify concerns and consider options for change.