Lawrence A. Decker, Ph.D.

Lawrence
A. Decker, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist, executive coach, entrepreneur, and author who has spent more than fifty years helping individuals, physicians, executives, and organizations understand the hidden emotional forces that shape their lives, relationships, leadership, and health. Following doctoral training at Brigham Young University and postdoctoral training at the Menninger Foundation, he built a career that combined psychology, executive coaching, and organizational consulting.

As an entrepreneur, he helped create a managed behavioural healthcare organization that eventually served clients across the United States before being acquired by Merck.

In his early fifties, Larry underwent open-heart surgery, much as his father had before him.

Decades later, at the age of eighty-three, after spending a lifetime helping others understand themselves, he finally asked the question he had been ignoring:

Had he become so skilled at managing his inner world that he never learned how to experience his own life fully?

That question became the foundation for Come On In. The Water Is Fine. The memoir traces one man's journey from surviving a difficult childhood to finally entering his own life. Along the way, it explores family, marriage, fatherhood, psychology, resilience, and the quiet invitations that slowly transformed him.

Larry is the author of six previous books and lives in Naples, Florida with his wife, Louise.