• Teachers for Systemic Supervision and Coaching (DGSF)
• Teacher for systemic therapy and counselling as well as mediation (DGSF)
• Supervisor and coach (DGSv/DGSF/SG)
• Systemic counsellor, therapist and mediator (DGSF/SG)
• European Certification of Psychotherapy (ECP) / Psychotherapy (HeilprG)

About the person/career

Dr Astrid Beermann completed her doctorate on change processes in personal and professional development - impact factors and modes of action in professionalisation processes. She is an industrial clerk and Diplom sociologist, worked in the private sector, studied sociology, psychology, educational and media sciences at the Philipps University of Marburg and has been employed at the University of Oldenburg since 2006. She was a research assistant at the Centre for Lifelong Learning (C3L) under the scientific direction of Priv.-Doz. Dr Joseph Rieforth for many years and now works in the area of health management at the University of Oldenburg in the field of counselling and coaching. Since 2000, she has also worked in private practice as a lecturer, individual, couple and family therapist, supervisor, coach, organisational developer and mediator.

She is certified as a systemic counsellor and therapist (DGSF/SG), supervisor, coach (DGSF/DGSv) and mediator (DGSF), teacher of systemic counselling, therapy, supervision, mediation, couples therapy and counselling (DGSF) with a psychotherapy licence (HeilprG) as well as European Certification of Psychotherapy (ECP) and an additional qualification in systemic constellations. Former Chairwoman of the Board of the German Society for Systemic Therapy, Counselling and Family Therapy (DGSF) and former member of the DGSF Continuing Education and Training Committee as well as spokeswoman for the DGSF specialist groups Universities and Mediation together with PD Dr Joseph Rieforth.

• Advanced scientific training and curriculum development
• Impact and process research in professionalisation processes
• Supervision and self-awareness
• Systemic research and teaching
• Systemic constellations in research, teaching and practice

Selected publications

• Hermans, Björn Enno / Beermann, Astrid (ed.) (2024) [forthcoming]. Systemic psychotherapy - Textbook for study and further education. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg
• Beermann, Astrid (2020). Systemic constellations - a quantum leap in further education? Carl Auer: Heidelberg
• Beermann, Astrid (2020). Change processes of personal and professional development - impact factors and modes of action in professionalisation processes using the example of supervisors, coaches and organisational developers, dissertation University of Oldenburg, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Unipress: Göttingen
• Beermann, Astrid / Pinkall, Tom (2019). The dynamic feeling of trust: Process-oriented approaches to salutogenesis in the context of conflict. In: Conflict dynamics. Salutogenesis, Vol. 8, Issue 4, Nomos: Baden-Baden
• Beermann-Kassner, Astrid (2018): Der Wert des Zögerns und Scheiterns, impulse contribution Barcamp 4.0 "Mut zur Veränderung" in: Bundesverband Mediation (ed.), Spektrum der Mediation. Selbstorganisation oder Fremdbestimmtheit, Issue 73, 3rd quarter, Metzner: Frankfurt a.M.
• Rieforth, Joseph / Beermann-Kassner, Astrid (2017). Self-awareness and supervision. Two royal roads to the development of professional identity. In: Conflict dynamics. Bewusstheit und Mindfulness bei Führungskräften und KonfliktberaterInnen, Vol. 6, Issue 2, pp.104-113, Klett-Cotta: Stuttgart