Michael Lauria
Qualified therapist, author and philosophical mythologist
Michael Lauria is a qualified therapist, author and philosophical mythologist. In practice since 2006, with more than 25,000 hours in the chair, he is the author of Obsolete and Twenty Years in the Chair, published 4 November 2026.
Interviews, podcasts and press: michael@lauriareads.com
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Michael Lauria is a qualified therapist, author and philosophical mythologist. In practice since 2006, with more than 25,000 hours in the chair, he is the author of Obsolete and Twenty Years in the Chair, published 4 November 2026.
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Michael Lauria is a qualified therapist, author and philosophical mythologist. He has been in private practice since 2006 and has spent more than 25,000 hours in the chair, most of them with men and couples, along with two years sitting with the dying in hospice and a year on a suicide hotline. He is the author of Obsolete, How to Be Michael Jackson and Twenty Years in the Chair, published 4 November 2026. He is also the mind behind The Architect, a body of work of thirty-three books and The Architect Speaks, a podcast of more than 500 episodes.
His title is qualified therapist, author and philosophical mythologist. Michael Lauria is the person; The Architect is the body of work he created.
Covers and dates.
4 November 2026
Twenty Years in the Chair
What 20 Years as a Therapist Taught Me About the Therapy Industry
23 September 2026
Obsolete
Who Are You When the Machine Can Do It All, and Death Is Optional?
19 June 2026
How to Be Michael Jackson
The Pattern Beneath the Performance
His first book, Forging Excalibur: Rediscover Your Masculinity, was published in 2019. All books are published through Athanatos Press.
Three angles for your audience.
Twenty Years in the Chair
“Twenty years and 25,000 hours in the chair taught me most therapy has no ending built in. I'll give your listeners three questions that tell them whether theirs is going somewhere.”
Why so many people understand their patterns perfectly and never change them, and what the structure of the room has to do with it: fifty minutes, once a week, language as the only tool, and a practitioner whose income depends on the client coming back. Told without contempt for the people who do the work, it names what therapy does well and where it cannot go.
The book pageObsolete
“For twenty years I sat with men who lost the job and then lost themselves. AI is about to run that experiment on millions at once.”
Artificial intelligence is taking the work that told people who they were, and longevity science is pushing the end further away. Drawing on two years at hospice bedsides, Obsolete asks what is left of a person when being needed stops answering the question of who they are.
The book pageHow to Be Michael Jackson
“What does it cost a child to become exactly what everyone needs?”
The most documented life in modern pop culture, read the way a clinician reads a client: the same operating system that produced the catalogue also produced the cost. The book doesn't adjudicate the 1993 settlement or the 2005 trial. It treats the public record as evidence of how that system handled crisis, and leaves the verdict to the reader.
The book pageHow he sounds on a microphone.
- HostThe Architect Speaks, Ep 475The Addendum to the Spine: his own story, told on his own show
- HostThe Architect Speaks, Ep 496Why Am I So Anxious?: a common problem, read clinically
- HostThe Architect Speaks, Ep 495How to Stop People-Pleasing: one pattern, taken apart in plain language
More than 500 episodes of The Architect Speaks on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Guest appearances.
A note on the dates: Michael stepped back from public media for four years while he synthesised sixteen years of professional work as a therapist into 33 books, more than 500 podcast episodes of The Architect Speaks, and now books under his own name. The gap is intentional.
- February 2019Beyond Homosapien
- March 2019Stories Behind the Grind
- June 2019Become a Fearless Father
- June 2019The ManBits Podcast
- October 2019Expert Authority Effect
- February 2021La Dolce Vita with Virginia Rose
- March 2021Thought Leaders To Watch
- April 2021Eight Billion
- August 2021Business Minds Coffee Chat
- October 2021The Shift
- November 2021The Embodied Business Show
- December 2021The Embodied Business Show
- March 2022Artists On Point
- April 2022The Modern Warrior Podcast
- April 2022The Recovered Dad Podcast
- May 2022The Embodied Business Show
- August 2022Thoughts On Purpose
Earlier interviews and the dated record of his work since 2006 are at forgingexcalibur.com.
Request an advance copy of Twenty Years in the Chair.
For podcast hosts and producers, journalists, reviewers, booksellers and librarians, ahead of publication on 4 November 2026. Advance copies are sent as a PDF.
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- Records remotely, audio and video.
- Bookings and questions: michael@lauriareads.com
- About Michael: codexofthearchitect.com/michael-lauria
- The record since 2006: forgingexcalibur.com
- One-sheet: PDF, two pages