Phone: 314.434.4044
Email: faculty@covenantseminary.edu

Dr. Dan Zink

Professor of Counseling

Daniel Zink was born in Madison, Wisconsin and raised in Quincy, Massachusetts. Athletics enabled him to attend two colleges in the East and play football, basketball, and baseball at the collegiate level. Academics enabled him to pursue graduate degrees in Social Work, Ministry, and Marital Therapy. Dr. Zink has worked in Ohio, Texas, and Missouri. His teaching, counseling, and speaking have taken him to many states and overseas to Hungary, Ethiopia, and Poland. This work of teaching, counseling, speaking, writing, and leading has been anchored in Dr. Zink’s missional goal for his life, to create a clearer vision of truth for life through conversations and authenticity.

Dr. Zink has worked at Covenant Seminary since 1990, first as the Director of Student Services and Adjunct Professor in Practical Theology. In 1995, he began his long tenure as a faculty member. Dr. Zink has taught a dozen different courses across the curriculum. Marriage and Family Counselling, Advanced Marriage and Family Counseling, and God and Humanity: Foundations of Counseling are his primary focus. In addition to his work at Covenant, Dr. Zink, was the founder and director of New Hope Counseling Services from 2000 to 2005. Dr. Zink provides counseling services through his private practice. Trained as a marriage and family counselor, his work has expanded to also include processing grief and suffering of various forms, walking with men in challenging life situations, mentoring pastors, and mentoring leaders of counseling centers. As a result of walking with people in various life challenges for 50 years, he is more convinced than ever that the most effective counseling approach is person-centered, relationship-grounded, system-sensitive, and growth-focused, all to facilitate people’s movement toward fuller personal wholeness.

Dr. Zink considers his long teaching career to be a gracious gift from God. Seeing the many students who have graduated and put what they learned here to work in many walks of life is a very special thing. Most special of all is the continuing relationships with graduates of the MAC program.

Dr. Zink’s wife, Carolanne, is a retired schoolteacher who serves her local church developing and delivering Bible studies in the church’s women’s ministry. Carolanne and Dan have two adult daughters. Laurianne is a schoolteacher with 20-plus years of experience in public and private schools in North and West St. Louis County and St. Louis City. Bethanne, formerly a service provider to children with Autism, has worked for several years as a software engineer. She currently works for a service-oriented web-based company in West Africa. To round out the family on their little farm, Dan and Carolanne have a retired thoroughbred racehorse, Cabo, and two Collie dogs, Teddy and Rosie.

Education

Faculty member since 1995

Select Courses

• Marriage and Family Counseling

• Advanced Marriage and Family Counseling

• God and Humanity: Foundations of Counseling