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 Marrying A Jerk,  is being taught in seven countries and 45 states by hundreds of churches, single organizations, educational settings and agencies-- with more than 500 military chaplains certified in the last year.  His new book, How To Avoid Marrying A Jerk, published by McGraw-Hill, is available for order on this site.

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 programs internationally in seminars and conferences, including the Smart Marriages Conference of the Coalition for Marriage, Family and Couples Education in Washington D.C., 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.

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 M.A. in Church History from Ashland Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. in Counseling and Psychology from the University of Akron.

Dr. Van Epp is continuing his eighteenth year of counseling in a private practice.  He has been happily married for over twenty-five years, and is the proud father of two daughters.

You can contact John at vanepp@nojerks.com.