Rate My Professor Katrina Andrews

Dr Katrina Andrews serves as Senior Lecturer in Counselling and Program Coordinator for the Bachelor of Counselling in the School of Law and Society at the University of the Sunshine Coast's Moreton Bay campus. She earned her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Griffith University, a Bachelor of Science with Honours and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Newcastle (NSW), and a Graduate Certificate in Higher Education and Academic Practice from the Higher Education Learning Institute (HELI). Before entering academia, Andrews practiced as a generalist psychologist across correctional centres, medical hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, and primary health networks, focusing on adults with trauma, addiction, depression, anxiety, and relationship issues, employing an integrative approach grounded in critical realism. With more than a decade of experience in tertiary education at independent providers, she has specialized in online delivery of programs in counselling, psychology, and adult education.

Andrews' research focuses on outcome research in counselling and psychotherapy, the use of technology to augment counselling and psychological therapy on mental health symptomatology, sustainable practice of being a counsellor or psychologist, quasi-experimental designs in clinical psychological content areas, student engagement in the online teaching environment, sustainable adult education in counselling, and lived experience of minority populations. Key publications include 'Online Group Psychotherapy: A Systematic Review' (Andrews and Ross, 2024), Waller et al.'s 'The experience of adults recovering from an eating disorder in a professionally-led, monthly support group: A qualitative Study' (Qualitative Research Journal, 2020), Pemberton, Kita, and Andrews' 'Practitioners’ experiences of using Gut Directed Hypnosis for Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Perceived impact upon client wellbeing' (Complementary Therapies in Medicine, 2020), Andrews, Bath, and Smith's 'Replication of the Learning Alliance Inventory to Blended Student Populations' (Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2018), and Moir-Bussy, Andrews, and Smith's 'Toward a Unified Vision of Professional Counselling Identity: A Preliminary Australian Perspective' (Australian Counselling Research Journal, 2016). She also edited 'Innovations in a Changing World' conference proceedings (2020). Andrews teaches in counselling, psychology, adult education, and social science research, and supervises higher degree research students.