Lawrence Murphy is the founder of Worldwide Therapy Online, the world’s first online clinical practice, which he established in 1994. Mr. Murphy is considered amongst the world’s foremost experts in the field. In collaboration with the National Board for Certified Counselors, he authored the first ethical code for online counselling. Through Therapy Online’s Research Institute, Lawrence and his colleagues publish regularly in the academic literature, including their seminal 1998 work When Writing Helps to Heal: Email as Therapy, which has been cited more than 350 times in the academic literature. Therapy Online delivers two levels of post-graduate training in cyber counseling and licenses software to individuals, agencies, and institutions keen to deliver services online.

And, since the pandemic began, Mr. Murphy has delivered more than 100 half-day training to a total of more than 12,000 mental health professionals across Canada. He is also a sought-after presenter for conferences and congresses around the globe. Lawrence received his MA in Counselling Psychology from the University of British Columbia in 1995. He teaches in the Department of Psychology at Wilfrid Laurier University and in the School of Continuing Studies at the University of Toronto.