John Townsend (born June 1, 1952) is an American Christian self-help author, business consultant, and psychologist.
[1] The clinic operated treatment centers in 35 cities in the western United States.
[1] In 2015, Townsend also founded the Townsend Institute for Leadership and Counseling, providing graduate training in Organizational Leadership, Executive Coaching and Counseling, based at Concordia University Irvine in California.
[3] Townsend has authored or co-authored a host of best-selling self-help books throughout his extensive career.
Townsend co-authored 26 Christian self-help books during his career,[4] including Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life in 1992, which sold two million copies and evolved into a five-part series.