Beth Ann Short MA, LCAT, ATR-BC, ATCS

Also known as BA (Pronounced: bee-ay)
Pronouns: they/them
I identify as a mixed race, gender queer/nonbinary person. I come from a diasporic Maliseet/Wolastiqiyik family who left Woodstock, New Brunswick, Canada around the time reservations and boarding schools were being put into place. I am also Irish, German and English. I experience multiple invisible disabilities. I grew up around the Great Lakes region, living in both Michigan and Ontario throughout my youth. Experiences and aspects of my own identity and social locations are always interacting within me and the work I do as clinician, supervisor, educator, artist, and documentarian. I am committed to provide support that affirms all the social locations of those whom I serve. I am also committed to continually work to identify and counteract any elements of my own privilege as they arise.

I am a strong lover of art history, especially art that traces and tells stories relating to the journeys of humankind. My goal in all the work I do is to support individuals honoring their creative process, personal strengths, and intersections while providing tangible opportunities for healing and growth in any facet of life. I also believe in the importance of acknowledging, questioning and creatively dismantling historical systemic power structures that have been in place and have unfairly disadvantaged individuals.
Credentials:
MA: Art Therapy from Marylhurst University.
LCAT: C-10205598 Licensed certified art therapist in Oregon.
ATCB: 01-151 Nationally board certified art therapist
ATCS: Nationally certified art therapy supervisor with ATCB
Teaching: Eastern Oregon University (2011-14), Marylhurst University (2016-17), Heritage University (2017-2023), Lewis & Clark College (2017-present).

Publications:
Creative Wellness: Art Journaling with Mindfulness (October 2016)
Creative Wellness Treatment Deck (July 2021)
Healing from Clinical Trauma Using Creative Mindfulness Techniques (September 2021) Routledge
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Acknowledgements: It is with deep respect and gratitude that I acknowledge that I reside and work on the traditional homelands of the Cowlitz and Clackamas tribes. I acknowledge and honor with reverence those who have stewarded this land, through colonization, systemic racism, structural racism, and genocidal policies. Additionally, I hold in the highest esteem those who have been historically enslaved upon this land, as well as those who may have been excluded to this land due to race, national origin, citizenship, and ethnicity. I offer some of my art therapy services at no charge to those who's homelands I occupy. If this applies to you or someone you know and you'd like to find out more please contact me.

Beth Ann Short LLC