Mark Brayne, Accredited EMDR Consultant, MA, BA (Hons), Dipl. Psych (UKCP), Dipl. Supv’n, Dipl. Couples Counselling, BUPA-recognised.
Click here for Mark Brayne’s latest CV, updated July 2011.
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.
People often wonder about the transition from journalist to psychotherapist, from Hack as it were to Shrink. It’s in fact a much smaller leap than most might believe.
With a background in journalism (30 years with Reuters and the BBC, and Cold War postings in Moscow, Berlin, Vienna and Beijing) and in all-too-often bad news, I specialise in particular in trauma – not just the journalistic kind but also the everyday tragedy, disaster and often much more simple personal distress that can affect anyone.
In my therapeutic work, I specialise in a still relatively new form of therapy called EMDR (Eye-Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing), an approach formally endorsed for working with trauma in particular by Britain’s National Institute for Clinical Excellence NICE.
Trained (CCPE, London, 1995-2000) in an integrative and transpersonal model, I also draw inspiration from many approaches, from Cognitive Behavioural and Person-Centred therapies, Gestalt, Transactional Analysis, art and psychodynamic therapies. I’m accredited with the UKCP, and the European EMDR Association, and am a BUPA- and CIGNA-recognised provider of psychotherapy.
In London, I see clients at the lovely CCPE building in Little Venice (picture left, 2 Warwick Crescent, London W2 6NE) a short canalside walk north from Paddington Station. I also see therapy clients at my base in Cirencester (GL7 2BB).
My 2000 CCPE/De Montfort University Masters degree is in transpersonal psychotherapy. As founding Director of the Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma in Europe from 2002-2008, I introduced trauma support and awareness training to the BBC – the first major international news organisation to take trauma seriously.
In recent years I have taken trauma training to news organisations around the world, including the Arabic news channel Al-Jazeera in Doha, WDR Television and Deutsche Welle in Germany, the Washington Post and Newsweek in the US, and the Financial Times, The Guardian, Reuters, ITN, NBC, ABC and CBS News in the UK amongst others. I remain a visiting Fellow at Bournemouth University Media School.
You can reach me by email, via the Contact Us link on the left, or by phone at +44 7711 888682.
