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 Mark Brayne served for 30 years as foreign correspondent and senior editor for Reuters and the BBC World Service, and has pioneered the introduction at the BBC and other news organisations of routine trauma training and support for journalists and programme-makers.
Mark joined Reuters as a graduate trainee in 1973, and went on to serve in Moscow and East Berlin before joining the BBC as German Language Service Correspondent in West Berlin in 1979.
Postings followed for the BBC in Vienna and Beijing, and as BBC World Service Diplomatic Correspondent based in London in the late 1980s, Mark covered the end of the Cold War, including the violent revolution in Romania which overthrew Central Europe 's last communist ruler Nicolae Ceausescu in 1989.
Mark hung up his reporter's boots in 1992, and while continuing to work as an senior editor at the BBC, trained in his spare time as a transpersonal psychotherapist, graduating in 2000 with a Masters degree in the Personal Experience of the Foreign Correspondent. In the early 1990s, he helped establish the BBC's first confidential counselling service, at a time when journalists in Britain were still predominantly hostile to the idea of revealing personal emotion.
Mark now lives with his wife Sue in the beautiful Cotswolds, about 80 miles West of London, and continues to work as a psychotherapist with journalists and news organisations in London and more widely in Europe. Sue and Mark, both with previous marriages and children of their own, were introduced in 2001 through the Dart Center in the US, which they had separately discovered in the course of research for their Masters degrees. They married in 2002 an unusually direct example of Dart Centre support for post-trauma recovery.
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