Welcome to Mark Brayne’s website.

Please note that from April to October 2012, I am taking a sabbatical to travel around the world – by bicycle, train and plane.

I will be working with clients in the UK until the end of March 2012, and resuming work in October.

For details of my travels, including options to sponsor me for charity, please visit my blog.

An accredited Consultant with EMDR Europe (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, those in the acting or journalistic professions, and with psychotherapy supervision, especially for those working towards EMDR Pracititioner or Consultant status. (As an EMDR Consultant, supervision hours with me count towards accreditation.)

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 also support journalists and news organisations in addressing the reporting and personal impact of traumatic events.

I’ve posted here -  and will continue to link to -  a selection 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.

Together with my partner Sue, we make up Braynework. Sue writes a regular blog, and if you’d like to know more about her work on Death and Dying, or about her new book on Sex, Meaning and the Menopause, do follow the links to her website.

I look forward to hearing from you.