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Mark Lugard Brayne (born 17 April 1950) is a British psychotherapist and former journalist. After a first career as a foreign correspondent, he qualified in psychotherapy and since 2002 has specialised in working with
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. As a therapist, he is an accredited Consultant in Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR).


Early life

The son of Thomas Lugard Brayne (who died in 2009) by his marriage to Audrey Diana Thompson, Brayne was educated at Gresham's School,
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and the
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, where he graduated in 1973 with a First Class Honours BA in German and Russian.''Debrett's People of Today 2011''
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Career

Brayne was with
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News Agency from 1973 to 1978, serving as correspondent in Moscow and East Berlin. In 1978 he joined the
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, first as its German service correspondent in
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for two years, then as Central European correspondent based in
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. From 1984 to 1987 he was BBC Radio News correspondent in Beijing, then from 1988 to 1992 was BBC World Service Diplomatic Correspondent based in London. In 1992 he became Deputy Head of the BBC Central European Service and in 1993 Deputy Head of the Russian service. From 1994 to 2003 he was the BBC's Regional Editor, Europe. In the 1990s Brayne retrained as a psychotherapistOne-to-One with psychotherapist Mark Brayne
dated 16 August 2010 at dw-world.de. Retrieved 19 September 2011
and in 2000 graduated with a Master of Arts degree in
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and psychotherapy at the CCPE (Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy) in London. In 2002 Brayne set up the BBC's project for Journalism and Trauma, and in the same year concurrently became Director Europe for the Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma. In 2003, Brayne left the BBC to work in private psychotherapy practice and as Director (Europe) for the Dart Centre. Between 2004 and 2008, when he left the Dart Centre, he was a member of the board of the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS). From 2014 to 2015, Brayne served on the board of the EMDR Association UK & Ireland. Brayne and his wife Jutta are joint Directors of their advanced EMDR training company EMDRFocus Ltd and both work as EMDR Consultants online from their home in
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Private life

In 1977 Brayne married firstly Jutta Hartung. They had two sons (Christopher b. 1980 and Alastair b. 1982) and a daughter (Katharine b. 1987), and were divorced in 2001. In 2002 he married secondly Sue Bowes. They divorced in 2013, and Mark and Jutta remarried later that year.


Publications

*'Luther: One of the Greatest Sons of the German People' in ''GDR Monitor'' (Dundee, 1980) *'Filming the PLA' in ''Bulletin of the British Association for Chinese Studies'' (London, September 1989) *'The Problem of Distance' in Robin Porter, ed., ''Reporting the News from China'' (Royal Institute for International Affairs, 1992) *'Journalism and Peace: the Personal Perspective of One Journalist' in ''Guide to UN Peace Exhibition'' (Geneva, 2003) *'Tackling the Macho Culture: Trauma and Journalists' in ''Counselling at Work'', autumn 2004 *'Emotions, Trauma and Good Journalism' in ''International News in the 21st Century'' (John Libbey/University of Luton Press, 2004) *'Media Workers and the Duty of Care' in ''Counselling at Work'', summer 2006 *''The Dart Centre and the Reporting of Trauma'' (Wildwasser Berlin, 2006) *'Early Psychosocial Intervention Following Traumatic Events' (with Bisson, Ochberg, & Everly) in ''American Journal of Psychiatry'', July 2007 *'Tackling the Macho Culture' in ''International Journalism'' (Wiley, 2007) *'Climate Change and the Therapist' in ''Therapy Today'', December 2007 *'Emotions, Trauma and Good Journalism' in ''International News Reporting – Frontlines and Deadlines'' (Owen & Purdey, Wiley, 2008) *'Journalism and Trauma Support' in ''Employee Wellbeing Support; A Workplace Resource'' (Wiley, 2008) *'Journalists’ and Media professionals’ attitudes to PTSD and help-seeking: a descriptive study' (with Greenberg, Gould, & Langston), in '' Journal of Mental Health'' (Informa Healthcare, 2009)


See also

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Frank Lugard Brayne Frank Lugard Brayne (6 January 1882 – 3 April 1952) was an administrator in the Indian Civil Service (ICS) during the British Raj era. A nephew of Lord Lugard, who was zealous in his attempts to improve what he considered to be a "backward" Af ...


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External links


braynework.com
(official web site)
psychlotherapist.com
(blog)
Mark Brayne
at dartcenter.org
Mark Brayne
at ecopsychology.org.uk/practitioners *Mark Brayne,
Journalists on the Couch
', ''Guardian Unlimited'', 5 August 2002 *Mark Brayne
Discussing trauma
at bbc.co.uk 1950 births Living people Alumni of the University of Leeds People educated at Gresham's School English male journalists English psychotherapists {{Improve categories, date=July 2021