Bri Beck

Education: MAATC, 2019, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago; BFA, 2013, Ball State University, Muncie, IN.

Excellence in Leadership; SAIC (2018); Award of Excellence, VSA Emerging Artists (2017)

Beck, B. (2020). "Embodied Practice: Reflections of a Physically Disabled Art Therapist in Social and Medical Disability Spaces." Art Therapy, 37(2), 62–69. https://doi.org/10.1080/07421656.2020.1756137 Beck, B. (2019). "Co-conspicuous: An autoethnography of a physically disabled art therapist practicing in social medical disability spaces" [Unpublished master’s thesis]. School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Artist in Residence, Bodies of Work; University of Illinois at Chicago, 2025; Artist in Residence, Good Hart Artist Residency, Good Hart, MI, 2025; Voices Embodied: Reverberations, Design Museum of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2024; Dis-, Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, Chicago, IL, 2021; Voices Embodied: Convergence, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL, 2020; Disability and Perspective, Museum of Contemporary Art; Chicago, IL, 2020; Electrify!, Kennedy Center, Washington, DC, 2017.

Bri Beck, LCPC, ATR (she/her) is an artist, licensed clinical professional counselor, and registered art therapist whose interdisciplinary practice centers disability culture and identity. Working at the intersection of art, mental health, and advocacy, Bri brings a lived experience lens to her work, drawing from her own disability identity and long-standing engagement with disability communities.

Her visual art practice explores themes of embodiment, vulnerability, and interdependence, often using mixed media and narrative forms to express the complexities of trauma, healing, and access. She maintains a solo therapy practice grounded in trauma-informed, relational, and disability-affirming care, where she works primarily with disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent adults. Her clinical work emphasizes identity development, grief work, emotional resilience, and the power of creative expression in healing.

In addition to her therapeutic and artistic work, Bri is an active consultant and disability-affirming care trainer, partnering with healthcare systems, nonprofits, and educational institutions to reimagine access, inclusion, and care through a disability justice lens. Her consulting work aims to serve as a bridge between academic disability studies and mainstream systems by translating critical concepts into accessible, actionable practices for direct-service providers. She also facilitates disability community workshops and peer support groups on topics such as disability identity development, self advocacy, internalized ableism, and navigating conflicting access needs within cross disability spaces.