She studied medicine and during the 1970s worked in a treatment centre for female alcoholics.
She then worked as a social worker specializing in the Roma issue. In May 1979, she was arrested and imprisoned for seven months under the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. She returned to work as a psychologist in 1989.
During the 1980s, with Olga Havlová, she established an association that published dissident books
Bělíková died in Prague at the age of 62.