Professor Lawrence Moloney is a psychologist and an Adjunct Professor in the School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University.

He has more than 200 publications, mainly in the area of children, parenting and separation.

Lawrie was Director of Family Court Counselling in the Family Court of Australia for 10 years. He taught counselling psychology at La Trobe University for over 20 years, before spending 6  years as a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Institute of Family Studies.