Andy Bateman,

Assistant Professor

Biography

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AssociateMember of the Higher Education Academy, Associate Member of the British Associationfor Counselling and Psychotherapy, Diploma in Counselling, Post-GraduateCertificate in Education.

AndyBateman has followed successful and wide-ranging careers in education and inresidential social work including innovative work with substance abusers and theirfamilies before training as a counsellor in 2001. Since then he’s practiced asa counsellor consistently alongside teaching, training and consultancy work. Asa counsellor he’s worked with a wide range of client groups and in a widerrange of settings. Initially a volunteer working with male survivors of sexualabuse, in H.M. Prison and Young Offenders Institution, Andy Bateman laterworked in school counselling, college counselling, work with addicts inrecovery in a community based drug rehabilitation project, as a staffcounsellor to a large local authority and worked for ten years atthe Interchange Project in Sheffield, with young people from 11 to 25 yearsold. He volunteers as student counsellor at a large secondary school in Rotherham.

Inparallel with counselling Andy Bateman has an ongoing commitment to sharinginsights from counselling and therapy through training and writing. He’s taughtcounselling since two years after qualification, from elementary to diplomalevel, acted as organisational consultant to voluntary organisations,, and deliveredtraining to police, social workers and other professionals, most recentlyteaching self-care to professionals working with young people across Sheffield. Alongsidethese activities Andy Bateman has interests in several areas of theory and philosophysurrounding counselling. He has an ongoing interest in Palestine, particularlythe effect of the occupation and the Israeli apartheid regime on mental healthand the practice of therapy amongst Palestinian adults and children- especiallythe idea of practicing therapy in an environment where there is no safe space. He’scurrently researching phronesis, the philosophy of interpersonal skill; researching transgender, especially in young people, and has aninterest in how we experience and understand empathy, particularly in the counsellingpractice room. He is also an enthusiastic proponent of Team Based Learning.