About Us

The Townsend Institute at Concordia University Irvine offers fully accredited online graduate degrees, professional certificates, and bachelor’s degrees in three content areas: Organizational Leadership, Executive Coaching and Consultation, and Counseling. Masterful psychologist and relationship expert Dr. John Townsend founded the Institute to address both the head and the heart, incorporating scriptural truths with current neuroscience. Discover how the Institute’s approach goes deeper than behavioral change and moves us to growth.