Emotional Clarity and Inner Strength
Understand your emotional patterns, triggers, and responses, and develop inner resources to navigate them with confidence. Leave with tools you can actually use, not insights that fade by morning.
Serving via Telehealth
Welcome to Creative Solutions Counseling & Coaching
Betty Lue Lieber, PhD, LMFT
Teacher . Guide . TherapistCreative Solutions Counseling & Coaching
I am a licensed marriage and family therapist, whole life success coach, spiritual teacher and interfaith minister, specializing in individual, couples and family psychotherapy.
What makes our work together unique
Positive · Practical · PersonalizedMy counseling and coaching approach is positive and solution-oriented. I provide support, education, inspiration and practical tools to help you resolve current problems, clear limiting beliefs, negative habits and unhealthy relationships. I blend traditional and alternative approaches, using what is most effective for you, and work with sensitivity and compassion to build on your unique strengths toward your chosen life goals.
Some people find that they get everything they need in a single session with the option of a monthly or quarterly follow up.
I offer counseling and coaching to individuals, couples, and families via telehealth on Zoom, FaceTime, and phone. I write and email Daily Loving Reminders as ongoing inspiration and support for over 26 years at no cost.
Visit Daily Loving RemindersWith many years' experience as a therapist, educational and business consultant, spiritual director and minister, and workshop and retreat facilitator, I specialize in meeting the individual counseling and coaching needs of all ages and cultures. My areas of expertise include self-care and balanced living, healthy relationships and effective communication, life purpose and success, and strategic planning for entrepreneurs and non-profit organizations.
With a positive, principle-centered approach to life, I inspire, educate and guide clients and students to find their own unique way of living, loving and giving. I have founded and directed over 30 holistic community non-profit centers in five states over the last 50+ years.
What is best for you is best for others.
Learn to love yourself well every day.
Services offered
- Individual Counseling
- Personal Success Coaching
- Couples Counseling
- Family Relationships / Harmony
- Blended Families
- All services available via telehealth
Assessment tools
Keirsey, Enneagram, Human Design, Instinctual Subtypes, communication and behavioral styles, Affirmations and Positive thinking, Forgiveness and releasing negatives, energy balancing, healthy routines and time management, optimal self-care, inspirational tools, Daily Loving Reminders, and discovering unique strengths.
You deserve to feel better, starting now
Most clients feel a shift after their very first session. That's not a slogan. It's 50 years of experience talking. You'll feel heard. You'll leave with a clearer next step. Guaranteed, you will feel better after your first appointment.
Challenges addressed
Growth across mind, body, spirit, relationships, and daily life.
- Mind-Body-Spirit Integration
- Holistic Telehealth Therapy
- Personalized Wellness Plan
- Self-Discovery and Self Confidence
- Life Purpose and Career Direction
- Relationship Healing and Transformation
- Anxiety and Trauma Healing
- Depression and Grief Counseling
- Family Counseling and Strategies
- Conflict Resolution and Leadership
- Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
- Effective Parenting
- Self Esteem, Confidence and Empowerment
- Home Organization and Business Success
- Money and Time Management
- Entrepreneurial Coaching
- Communication Effectiveness
How the work unfolds
My Creative Solutions Approach
This 7-step process guides your journey.Our work together is interactive, effective and individualized.
- 1
Discover
Understanding who you are and where you want to go
What do you want?
Focus: Clarify goals and desired outcome - 2
Assess
Identifying your strengths, patterns, and growth edges
Where are you now?
Focus: Clarify current situation - 3
Learn
Building awareness and new perspectives
What do you need to get what you want?
Focus: Clarify tools to utilize - 4
Choose
Making empowered, informed decisions
What interferes with success?
Focus: Choose what will work: clarifying and refining successful strategies - 5
Implement
Putting new skills into action
What will be effective?
Focus: Explore options - 6
Practice
Reinforcing change through consistent effort
How to continue doing what works?
Focus: Keep learning more - 7
Appreciate
Celebrating your growth and honoring your progress
How to value / enhance your success?
Focus: Daily gratitude
What you'll gain
Therapy and coaching work best when built around you, your strengths, your story, and your goals. Every session is designed to move you forward in ways that are practical, lasting, and meaningful.
Healthier, More Fulfilling Relationships
Whether marriage, family, or your relationship with yourself, gain communication skills and emotional awareness that transform how you connect with the people who matter most.
Self-Respect and Personal Agency
Learn to trust your instincts, values, and capacity to make good decisions, the kind of self-respect that doesn’t depend on anyone else’s approval.
Relief from Anxiety, Stress, and Feeling Stuck
Practical strategies to reduce overwhelm and move forward with greater ease and purpose, including through grief or major life transitions.
Clarity Around Life Purpose and Direction
Discover what makes you uniquely you, how to build a life that reflects it, and use tools like the Keirsey Temperament Sorter and the Enneagram.
High-Level Self-Care as a Way of Life
Prioritize mental, emotional, and physical well-being in ways that are sustainable, empowering, and rooted in genuine self-love.
Independence, Not Dependence
The real measure of success: becoming so emotionally resourceful, self-aware, and capable that you don’t need therapy indefinitely.
The client experience
What you can expect when we work together.
- Feel heard and valued
- Experience safety and no judgment
- Feel respected and important
- Leave the first session feeling positive and hopeful
- Identify clear objectives
- Receive guidance and support for making changes
- Learn strategies for successful outcomes
- Receive homework and encouragement in moving forward
- Build more trust in ways to improve your life
- Feel inspired to appreciate your progress
- Flexibility to make and change appointments as needed
- Freedom to express both positives and negatives
- Encouragement to state preferences in the process
- Daily support with written and audio Loving Reminders
How you benefit
Practical results that support lasting growth.
- Significant symptom relief, improved emotional regulation, and enhanced self-awareness
- Practical coping strategies and problem-solving skills
- Resilience for a more fulfilling, self-directed life
- Long-term improvements in mental, physical, and professional well-being
- Support with depression, anxiety, and PTSD-related symptoms
- Reduction of chronic pain or fatigue and support for overall immune health
- Adaptive skills for daily stress, trauma, and life transitions
- Identifying and changing self-defeating habits and negative thought patterns
- Greater clarity regarding identity, values, and personal goals
- Enhanced compassion for self and others, including self-soothing skills
- Expressing needs clearly and resolving conflicts constructively
- Setting limits to protect your energy and attachment security without guilt
- Knowing when to say “yes” to what is good and “no” to what is not
- Root-cause discovery: understanding why you think, feel, and react as you do
- Healthy boundaries, healthier relationships, and deeper trust and connection
Who would value Creative Solutions with Betty Lue?
If you're ready to develop your own inner resources, build emotional maturity, and step into genuine self-respect and high-level self-care. I'd love to connect.
- All ages and backgrounds wanting a new approach to life’s problems
- Wanting to feel better after the first session
- A new way to make better choices
- Education and motivation to make positive changes
- A safe, non-judgmental connection to share
- Support and encouragement to be your best
- Healthy cooperative relationships
- Learning to be respectful and responsible
- Feeling respected and valued
- Open and willing to learn
- Motivated by change
- Appreciative of authentic sharing
- Happy to learn a better way to live
Frequently Asked Questions
Answers about therapy, hours, rates, and what to expect when working with Betty Lue.