Welcome to Mark Brayne’s website.
A registered practitioner in EMDR (one of only two forms of psychotherapy recommended for trauma by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence), I’m a psychotherapist working mainly in London but also in the Cotswolds,
I specialise in trauma, depression and anxiety, working also with couples and psychotherapy supervision and supporting journalists in the field.
There’s more background about how I work, including a detailed CV, on my About Page.
As a former BBC and Reuters foreign correspondent and editor (30 years of reporting, broadcasting and editing, and postings mainly in and into the former Communist world from Moscow and East Berlin to Beijing), I support journalists and news organisations in addressing the reporting and personal impact of traumatic events.
I’m aware that there are hundreds – thousands – of websites out there offering counselling and psychotherapy of every possible permutation and model.
Most of them say much the same sort of things about what psychotherapy can and can’t do, and what’s on offer.
This website does some of that as well, but I’ve tried to make it a little more personal and perhaps engaged/engaging. That’s the way I work, as therapist and in the past as journalist, and if it appeals, then I’ll be pleased to explain more. In the meantime, do browse around and see if there’s anything here that might meet your needs.
If you are interested in my occasional blog posts as a Psychlotherapist (note the L – terrible pun…), then here’s the place to look. And if you’re looking for Sue Brayne and her work in death and dying, or on Sex, Meaning and the Menopause, please click the links.
I’ve posted here – and will continue to link to – an eclectic collection of my own and others’ past writings. If you’d like to know more about EMDR in particular, follow the link on the left under Psychotherapy for my own explanation of what this is, or take a look at the website of the European EMDR Association.
I look forward to hearing from you.
