John Andersen has 25 years of clinical experience in private practice as a psychologist and marriage and family therapist. He taught counselling as Head of the Counselling Department at Tabor College Victoria between 2000 – 2005. John is currently the Vice President of the Christian Counsellors Association of Australia and a Board member of ACCA. John has been married to Deborah Andersen for 37 years. They have four children ranging in ages from 31 to 17. Deborah works as a child psychologist with him in a Christian counselling practice in the eastern outskirts of Melbourne called Mount Evelyn Counselling. John’s commitment to the integration of theology and psychology is reflected in his MTh thesis on Deficit Identity and Identity Transformation and PhD. in Old Testament Theology examining the dynamics of shame in the Eden Narrative.