Dr. Andi Thacker, assistant professor of Biblical Counseling, reminds believers how compassion fatigue and burnout plague the lives of care professionals while highlighting how healthy self care combats downward spirals in ministry and relationships.

About the Contributors

Andi Thacker

Andi J. Thacker

As a professor in the Counseling Ministries department, Dr. Thacker is passionate about teaching counseling students to integrate scripture and psychology and apply those concepts to real life counseling situations. In addition to her teaching responsibilities at DTS, Dr. Thacker maintains a small private practice in which she specializes with children and adolescents and supervises LPC-Interns. She is a licensed professional counselor, a board approved supervisor, and holds multiple certifications in counseling. Most importantly, she is married to Chad and they have three children: Emerson, William, and Webb.