Murray has over 20 years management experience specialising in employee wellbeing and he has held Wellbeing Manager roles in an organisation of over two thousand employees. Murray has been the team leader in personal protection and has protected a number of Australian Prime Ministers, other Australian politicians including Pauline Hanson, Jeff Kennett and Kim Beazley, the Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN) and several celebrities including Priscilla Presley. He has also been the Tactical Commander for the Victoria Police – Critical Incident Response Teams. Murray has recently attended Harvard University where he has studied Mind Body Medicine Programs at the Harvard Medical School. He has also studied yoga under the supervision of Assistant Professor Khalsa from Harvard University who is also the editor of “The Harvard Introduction to Yoga”.
He holds a Master Psychology, Bachelor Psychology (Honours), Graduate Diploma (Psychology) and Bachelor Arts (Monash) and is currently registered as a psychologist with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Authority: Psychologists Board of Australia.
Murray is a full member of the Australian Association of Psychologists Inc, International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and Yoga Alliance. He is also a registered provider with Medicare, Work Safe Victoria, Traffic Accident Commission and most private health insurance funds.
He has been awarded a Churchill Fellowship, where he travelled internationally to study advances in policing methods involving people in crisis whilst affected by mental health issues. Recommendations from the fellowship were subsequently implemented in Victoria, New South Wales and Western Australia.
Murray has a specific interest in providing psychological interventions for people exposed to trauma particularly related to military and emergency services. The primary therapeutic modality used by Murray for the treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) combined with an individualised movement program. These movement programs can include Trauma Aware Yoga or exercise prescription supervised by either exercise physiologists or psychologists.
Murray has also presented to a wide range of organisations on Brave Health Group’s innovative trauma programs and this includes to the Wounded Warrior Project, a not for profit organisation which funds warrior programs and in 2019 funded over 200 million dollars in programs. Murray also presented to Home Base (Veteran and Family care) in USA which is a Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Program. This has led to Home Base integrating some of the frameworks developed by Brave Health Group.
Whilst Murray reviews and determines the most appropriate modality for treatment, he understands that each client brings different life experiences to the sessions and as such Brave Health Group integrates complimentary interventions such as Remedial Massage, Sensory and Somatic Body Movement Therapy and other appropriate interventions when necessary.
Murray also has an interest in anger management and he has a number of clients who he regularly supports around these complex presentations.