John Van Epp, PhD, President/Founder of Love Thinks, LCC is the author of How to Avoid Falling in Love with a Jerk, published by McGraw-Hill, which blends in-depth research with humorous stories to provide a map for making healthy relationship choices; and Becoming Better Together: healthy relationship goals for growing together when life is pulling you apart. His twenty-five years of clinical experience and extensive research in premarital, marital and family relations have paved the way for his teach-out-of-the-box courses, PICK (How to Avoid Falling for a Jerk) LINKS for Couples, Our Home Runs, Home Run Dads, and Resilient & Ready for the Fight to be taught in thousands of churches, singles organizations, educational settings and social agencies in all fifty states, ten countries and by more than 7,500 military personnel. His courses have secular and Christian versions. He has a B.S. in Biblical & Pastoral Studies from Cairn University, a M.A. in Pastoral Counseling and Psychology, and a second M.A. in Church History from Ashland Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. in Counseling and Psychology from the University of Akron. Van Epp and his innovative Relationship Attachment Model (RAM), books and relationship courses were awarded the Smart Marriage Impact Award (2008), the National Association of Relationship & Marriage Education Impact Award in 2018, and have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Time Magazine, Psychology Today, O Magazine, and Cosmopolitan; and he has appeared on the CBS Early Show, Good Morning America, Fox News, Focus on the Family, and hundreds of broadcasts. Dr. Van Epp's Relationship Attachment Model (RAM) has been empirically validated as a concise yet comprehensive model portraying the five major bonds in relationships, and is used as an assessment tool as well as a teaching framework in all of his programs. He has been happily married for forty years and is the proud father of two daughters.
Listed skills include Family Therapy, Psychotherapy, Psychology, Public Speaking, and 46 others.
