John Van Epp, PhD, President and Founder of Love Thinks, LLC is the author of How to Avoid Falling in Love with a Jerk (or Jerkette)-top choice for singles by Christianity Today; Becoming Better Together: the RAM plan for growing together when life is pulling you apart; and Endgame: The Church’s Strategic
Move to Save Faith and Family in America (co-authored with JP DeGance).

He has previous experience as
* founding church pastor,
* adjunct seminary professor in marriage and family with extensive research in premarital, marital, and family relations,
* clinical counselor for 25-years in his former private counseling practice.
* and for over 20 years, he has trained military personnel and contracted with the military as a subject matter expert (SME) in relationship health, psychology, religion, suicide, and resilience.

For the past 25 years, he has developed relationship programs that have been taught by over 35,000 certified instructors to over one million participants in every branch of the military, social agencies, marriage and family coalitions, high schools, and universities, and in all fifty states and eleven countries.

Van Epp and his innovative Relationship Attachment Model, and his relationship courses were awarded the Smart Marriage Impact Award, the National Association of Relationship & Marriage Education Impact Award, and have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, Psychology Today, O Magazine, and Cosmopolitan; he has appeared on the CBS Early
Show, Good Morning America, Fox News, and Focus on the Family.

Van Epp has a B.S. in Biblical and Pastoral Studies; a M.A. in Pastoral Psychology and Counseling; a M.A. in Church History; and a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology. He has been happily married for over 45 years and is the proud father of two daughters and five grandkids.

Love Thinks Programs are all about relationships—dating, marriage, parenting, and family relationships. All programs are built around Dr. Van Epp’s Relationship Attachment Model (RAM).
Love Thinks programs have been taught to over one million participants by community nonprofits, churches, singles organizations, social agencies, and in educational and military settings (www.LoveThinks.com). These programs come in Christian and Community versions, several translations, & in multiple formats.
* Instructor-led Certification Versions so that you can teach the courses.
* Online Relationship Courses (www.MyLoveThinks.com) for at-home learning.
* Church series: plug-n-play versions specifically designed for church use.
Gain free relationship resources—blogs, daily Instagram posts, videos (MyLoveThinks.com).

RAM Series for Churches (www.RAMseries.com)
The RAM Series is a unique, 6-week churchwide experience that is built around the RAM and involves the entire church learning how to build healthy relationships first with God, and then with others. It includes sermon manuscripts, two small-group video-based studies, one for singles and the other for couples, video-based lessons for 1st through 12th grades, and a Parent Guide for parents to engage in dynamic conversations with their own children at home. The entire church learns the RAM with every message addressing relationships with God and with others (dating, marriage, parenting and within the church family).