David Murphy, PhD., is a Chartered Psychologist, Full Member of the Division of Counselling Psychology, Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society and registered member of General Psychotherapy Council. He is Professor of Psychology and Education and Director for the Centre for Research in Human Flourishing at The University of Nottingham, England.

David's previous books include Person-Centred Experiential Counselling for Depression Second Edition published by Sage. He is editor of the official British Psychological Society-Wiley published Counselling Psychology: A textbook for study and practice (2017). He is Co-editor of Relational Depth: New Perspective and Developments (2012, with Rosanne Knox, Sue Wiggins and Mick Cooper), published by Palgrave MacMillan, and Co-editor of Trauma and the Therapeutic Relationship (2013, with Stephen Joseph) published by Palgrave MacMillan. He has over 90 peer review journal papers and book chapters in the field of counselling, psychotherapy, and education. He was editor of Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies, the international journal for the World Association for Person-Centred and Experiential Psychotherapy and Counselling.