Donna Sheperis, Ph.D., is Remote Core Faculty in the M.A. Counseling program at PAU, teaching all courses virtually. Dr. Sheperis has taught for eighteen years, ten of which has been online. One area of her research involves best practices in online teaching. Dr. Sheperis is active in the counseling profession, currently serving as President-Elect to the Association for Assessment and Research in Counseling and the Ethics and Bylaws chair for the Association for Humanistic Counseling. In this interview, Dr. Sheperis explores the myths and the reality of online teaching specific to relational professions and shares her thoughts on the future of online instruction.