Media Kit Resources
Brief Bio (100 Words)
Dr. Tom Murray, author, international trainer, educator, and couples and sex therapist-supervisor, is a widely sought-after expert in sexuality and intimate relationships. For more than two decades, Murray has worked with everyday folks to embrace their weirdness, shed labels and shame, lean into anxiety, and build better and stronger relationships. Murray has appeared in numerous venues, including the Huffington Post and The Daily Mail, as well as radio, television, and podcasts, including the Practice of Being Seen and Shrink Rap Radio. Murray directs A Path to Wellness. He authored Making Nice with Naughty: An intimacy guide for the rule-following, organized, perfectionist, practical, and color-within-the-line types.
Extended Bio (300 words)
Dr. Tom Murray, an international trainer, educator, and couples and sex therapist, is a widely sought-after expert in sexuality and intimate relationships. He authored the 2022 book Making Nice with Naughty: An intimacy guide for the rule-following, organized, perfectionist, practical, and color-within-the-line types.
For more than two decades, Murray has worked with everyday folks to embrace their weirdness, shed labels and shame, lean into anxiety, and build better and stronger relationships.
Murray’s doctorate is in marriage and family counseling from the University of Florida. Clinically, he combines a pull-no-punches, no-beating-around-the-bush style. His integrated therapy approach has helped folks quiet the mind-chatter that interferes with happiness, intimacy, and quality sexual relationships.
Dr. Murray has appeared in numerous venues, including the Huffington Post and The Daily Mail, as well as radio, television, and podcasts, including the Practice of Being Seen and Shrink Rap Radio. He’s a highly acclaimed presenter on various mental health and relationship topics at local, regional, and national conferences. Dr. Murray has published numerous articles in professional journals and has had faculty affiliations with UNC Greensboro, Walden University, Lindsey Wilson College, Northwestern University’s Family Institute, the Modern Sex Therapy Institute, and Adler University.
In addition to his couples and sex therapy practice, Dr. Murray is passionate about Highly Sensitive Persons, artists, actors, dancers, musicians, and other creative types. With nearly a decade of experience as the director of a counseling center for one of the premier art conservatories in the nation, Dr. Murray integrates knowledge from business, positive psychology, sports psychology, mindfulness, and performance optimization to manifest creative aspirations.
Dr. Murray lives in Greensboro, NC, along with his two sons. In addition to his strong passion for sex-positive clinical practice, and advocacy, Dr. Murray enjoys writing jokes, taking comedy improv courses, cooking and baking, singing, and participating in his faith community.
Sample questions
- What does it mean to have an Overcontrolled (OC) Temperament or coping style?
- How does OC impact one’s sex life or intimate relationships?
- What is the major obstacle to satisfying sexual relationships
- What’s the best way to deal with negative mind-chatter?
- When people have run out of steam around their sexuality, how can they reignite their fire?
- By training, you’re a marriage and family therapist; how does this support your understanding of sexuality?
- What are the ways in which people improve their sexual performance?
- What is sex therapy, and what are the benefits that people can expect from working with you?
