John F Murray Biography

Dr. Murray has provided professional psychology services to help individuals, organizations and teams succeed for more than 23 years.His background is diverse, ranging from teaching at universities, working with companies, and consulting to professional athletes and teams. He is a best-selling author and columnist, media resource, seminar leader and speaker to business, sports and general groups worldwide. He is also a rare sport performance psychologist and clinical psychologist, and a licensed psychologist in Florida since 1999. This dual specialization provides him expertise to handle personal as well as performance-related issues. 

Dr. Murray received his professional training at one of the top 10 ranked doctoral programs in his field, seeing patients clinically and studying at University of Florida Department of Clinical and Health Psychology. This provided John one of the finest clinical experiences available in which he provided 4 years of supervised client services before receiving the doctorate. He specialized in sports psychology as well as medical/health psychology, working with a diverse inpatient and outpatient patient population of a major tertiary care hospital.

Dr. Murray earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Loyola University of New Orleans (1983), two masters degrees (1992 and 1995), and a Ph.D. (1998) from the University of Florida Department of Clinical and Health Psychology. His first master’s degree is from the sports psychology track within the Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences in the College of Health and Human Performance. His doctoral dissertation examined the psychology of stress and coping with injury with the national champion Florida Gators football team in 1997. He then completed a unique counseling and sport psychology internship (1997-1998) at Washington State University, and a similarly designed postdoctoral fellowship (1998-1999) at Florida International University.

Dr. Murray is Past-President of the Palm Beach County Chapter of the Florida Psychological Association and he has appeared on national television multiple times. His writing and contributions have been published in Psychology Today, Sports Illustrated, ESPN The Magazine, and USA Today among thousands of others.  As a national spokesman on issues of clinical psychology, sports psychology and performance enhancement he believes very strongly in the benefits of positive psychology for both enhancing well-being and promoting success.