Meet The Founder
![]() Lawrence Murphy Executive Director and CEO
Lawrence Murphy is the founder of Worldwide Therapy Online, the world’s first online clinical practice, established in 1994. In collaboration with the National Board for Certified Counselors, he and his colleagues 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 400 times in the academic literature. His most recent publication, in collaoration with his Ghanian Colleague Dr. Tutu-Danquah, is a chapter in the Routledge Handbook of African Social Work Education. He is presently working on a self-help book based on Narrative Therapy techniques. |
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"Since 1994 I have been working to try to bring ethical professional online counselling to the world. I was trained in a research-practitioner model and so always have one foot in the academic world. Check out Therapy Online's Research Institute to see our latest publications and research projects. I do love teaching and so along with being Dean of Training here at Therapy Online I am a lecturer in the Department of Psychology at Wilfrid Laurier University". |