This generic qualitative research study focused on online counselor educators' self-care experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nonprobability purposive sampling was utilized to recruit 12 core faculty actively teaching in CACREP-accredited programs during COVID-19 with five or more years of online teaching experience. This sampling represented the counselor educator population at large. The core online counselor educators teaching in CACREP-accredited programs participated in semi-structured interviews conducted in FERPA and HIPAA-compliant Zoom rooms. The researcher utilized eight guiding questions to explore participants' self-care experiences during COVID-19. Hettler's Wellness Model, a multidimensional holistic model, was the theoretical framework for the study. Through theoretical thematic analysis, the researcher discovered that online counselor educators implemented self-care practices within six themes that aligned with the domains of Hettler's Wellness Model to navigate the widespread changes created by COVID-19. The following six themes were present in the data analysis of the counselor educators' interview responses: adaptations to occupational life, physical coping strategies, spiritual wellness, social connections, conscious introspection, and intellectual growth. Within the adaptations to occupational life theme, the subthemes of time management, ease of online transition, increased CACREP burden, workload, gatekeeping responsibility, values alignment, and increased ethical issues emerged. In the physical coping strategies theme, the subthemes of alcohol use, illness prevention practices, nutrition, physical activity, and sleep were present. The researcher uncovered the subthemes of church attendance, letting go, meditation, and prayer in the spiritual wellness theme. The social connections theme contained the subthemes of family support, isolation, outdoor social connection, and virtual connection. The conscious introspection theme held the subthemes of emotional demand, gratitude, journaling, mindfulness, and self-love. The subthemes of reading and virtual learning were revealed within the intellectual growth theme. Hettler's Wellness Model's six dimensions of self-care practices helped to answer the research question: "How do online counselor educators describe their self-care experiences during the COVID-19 disease pandemic?" First, the study's findings suggest that online counselor educators may increase their self-care practices by applying Hettler's Wellness Model to their lives. Second, the study's findings demonstrate that integrating Hettler's Wellness Model into counselor education and supervision CACREP-accredited curricula and continuing education training may provide counselors-in-training, counselors, and counselor educators with tools to increase self-care practices and wellness while building resilience. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2222/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]