Dr Van Epp has conducted numerous seminars and workshops over the past twenty years on topics related to marriage, family, recovery, singlehood, emotional make-up, relationships, and divorce. His popular curriculum, PICK (Premarital Interpersonal Choices & Knowledge) a Partner, also presented by Dr Van Epp in his video,How to Avoid F.jpg)
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Dr Van Epp also has a second program, Marriage LINKS, that applies his Relationship Attachment Model to maintaining the closeness and intimacy in marriage. He has presented his program internationally in seminars and conferences, including the Smart Marriages Conference of the Coalition for Marriage, Family and Couples Education in Washington DC, Orlando, FL, and Denver CO, Singapore's National Conference on Truth and Relationships, the Eastern Educational Research Association, International and Chapter Conferences for the North American Association for Separated and Divorced Catholics, the Annual Conference of the Ohio Association for Family and Consumer Sciences, the National and International Conferences for Beginning Experience, and the Ohio Christian Education Association, to name a few. Both the PICK and LINKS courses are "teach-out-of-the-box" with an instructor course on DVD and are being taught internationally by over 5,000 instructors in counseling and agency settings, public and private junior and senior high schools, colleges and universities, prisons, military installations, extension classes, coalition and community programs.
Dr Van Epp has worked with many couples in their premarital relationship. His years of clinical counseling experiences and extensive research in premarital, marital and family relations have been enriched by his previous experience as a minister and former position as an adjunct professor teaching advanced graduate coursework in marriage and family studies. He has an M.A. in Pastoral Counseling and Psychology, and a second MA in Church History from Ashland Theological Seminary, and a PhD in Counseling Psychology from the University of Akron.
Dr. Van Epp and his innovative Relationship Attachment Model, book and relationship courses were awarded the Smart Marriage Impact Award (2008) and have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, Psychology Today, O Magazine, and Cosmopolitan; and he has appeared on the CBS Early Show, the O’Reilly Factor, Fox News, and Focus on the Family.
He has been happily married for thirty years, and is the proud father of two daughters. You can contact John at john@lovethinks.com.