- Private practice since
- 2006
- Hours in the chair
- 25,000+
- Books
- 33
- Podcast episodes
- 540
- Qualified
- Diploma of Counselling
- Certified
- Marriage and Family Therapist
- Studied
- Bachelor of Psychology
Michael Lauria
About
Michael Lauria has been in private practice as a qualified therapist since 2006: more than 25,000 hours in the chair with thousands of people, most of them men, along with many couples. Along the way he spent two years sitting with the dying in hospice and a year on a suicide hotline.
The Codex is the body of work that came out of those years: thirty-three books, over five hundred episodes of The Architect Speaks, and the framework underneath them, of how patterns are installed, how they are dismantled, and how coherence is built. Every course here is written and taught by him.
The lineage of the work
None of this is new. The Codex draws together what has been named before, across clinical psychology, philosophy, myth and the contemplative traditions, and builds it into one framework a person can use. These are the sources it draws on most.
Depth psychology
- Carl Jung
- James Hillman
- Marie-Louise von Franz
- Sigmund Freud
Attachment, trauma and the body
- John Bowlby and attachment theory
- Bessel van der Kolk
- Stephen Porges
- Gabor Maté
- Family systems theory
Classical philosophy
- Socrates
- Plato
- Aristotle
- Heraclitus
- Pythagoras
- Plotinus
The Stoics
- Seneca
- Epictetus
- Marcus Aurelius
Myth and legend
- Joseph Campbell
- Homer
- Dante
- The Arthurian legends: Merlin, the Fisher King and the Grail
The hermetic and contemplative traditions
- The Hermetic philosophers
- The alchemists
- The Gnostics
- Meister Eckhart
- Rumi
- The Tao Te Ching
- Buddhist thought
The Codex draws on these sources. It is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, any of the people or institutions named.
Read the origins of the workBooks under his own name
- Obsolete: Who Are You When the Machine Can Do It All, and Death Is Optional? Out now. What's left of us when being needed stops answering the question of who we are.
- Twenty Years in the Chair. 4 November 2026, with a foreword by Dr John Demartini. An insider's account of the therapy industry, and why insight so rarely produces change.
- How to Be Michael Jackson: The Pattern Beneath the Performance.
- Forging Excalibur: Rediscover Your Masculinity. His first book.
Published by Athanatos Press. The full list is at lauriareads.com.