You’ve probably chanced across or deliberately come to our website because of a recommendation or interest in EMDR, Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing, about which we have both been passionate as an approach to healing not just recent trauma, but often old stuff buried deep in past experience.
We were both originally trained as integrative, transpersonal psychotherapists at the Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy (CCPE) near Paddington in London, and since the Covid pandemic began in March 2020, worked exclusively and internationally online, from our home on England’s North Norfolk coast.
First meeting in Moscow in 1974, when Jutta was working in the West German embassy and Mark was on his first reporting assignment for the Reuters news agency, we have since lived and travelled around the world, from Berlin, Vienna and Beijing to London – and with our tandem Daisy2, especially also New Zealand (where the picture on the previous page has us waving a cyclist’s hello from above Lake Taupo on the North Island.)
We’ve also had our own rather special journey as a couple (in March 2017 celebrating 40 years since our first wedding, in Bavaria), with 13 years apart before we finally got the hang (largely) of how relationships work, remarrying in 2013.
As we head into later life, neither of us is taking on new clients, though Mark is still busily engaged with delivery of workshops and webinars in attachment-informed EMDR. Jutta is enjoying much more time with our two grandchildren, now living locally up the road from us in our North Norfolk home.
If you’d like to know more about EMDR, or indeed about us, feel free to visit EMDRFocus.com, or our (mainly cycling) blog at www.psychlotherapist.com. Yes, with an L…