Phone: 314.434.4044
Email: faculty@covenantseminary.edu

Prof. Suzanne Bates

Assistant Professor of Counseling

Suzanne Bates (MAC ’99), a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and PhD student (‘23; University of Missouri-St. Louis), brings a wealth of experience from the counseling field into the classroom as Assistant Professor of Counseling. She provides counseling part-time as Staff Counselor for New City Fellowship – St. Louis, a position she has held for more than a decade. For more than twenty years, Suzanne has provided care and counsel to individuals, couples, and families of diverse populations, including the incarcerated, immigrants, and refugees. She counsels, shepherds, and teaches CTS students and members of New City Fellowship Church with the wisdom she has gleaned over her years of teaching counseling courses, facilitating and teaching Bible studies, leading women’s groups, and more. Suzanne is a native of St. Louis, Missouri; she has four grown children and four grandchildren.

Education

BA
Fontbonne University
St. Louis, MO

Faculty member since 2010