Lawrence Murphy
Instructor, Psychology
lmurphy@wlu.ca
Waterloo, Ontario
Faculty of Science
Lawrence Murphy is an expert in cybertherapy, online counselling and social psychology.
Areas of Expertise
- Psychotherapy
- Social Psychology and Human Behaviour
Biography
Lawrence Murphy is the founder of Worldwide Therapy Online, the world’s first online clinical practice, established in 1994. In 1998 he co-authored the first ethical code for online counselling. Mr. Murphy 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. Therapy Online delivers two levels of training in cybercounselling and licenses online therapy. Since the pandemic began, Mr. Murphy has delivered more than 90 half-day trainings to a total of more than 10,000 mental health professionals across Canada.