Welcome to Mark Brayne’s new website.
A psychotherapist working mainly in London but also in the Cotswolds, I specialise in trauma and life’s search for meaning.
I’m a registered practitioner in EMDR (one of only two forms of psychotherapy recommended for trauma by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence), and am a qualified psychotherapy supervisor. There’s more background about how I work 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 work also with journalists and news organisations in addressing the reporting and personal impact of traumatic events.
If you’ve come from our old Braynework.com website, a warm secondary welcome via that dogleg – to this new site which both sets out my professional stall as a psychotherapist, and allows access too to my occasional Psychlotherapist blog posts (see menu on the left). (If you’re looking for Sue Brayne and her work in death and dying, please contact her using the link on the left.)
Psychlotherapy – with the L – is a terrible pun. But since cycling and psychotherapy are two of my passions in this later phase of life, there’s a logical and irresistable connection. And Braynework isn’t much less subtle…
I’ve posted and will continue to link to a collection of my own and others’ past writings. And note, by the way, that the photos across the top of this screen and on individual pages were taken on various bicycle – psychling? – and journalistic trips and postings through the years, illustrating my underlying approach to psychotherapy, and life – a journey towards and around meaning.
I look forward to hearing from you.