Who We Are
EMDR Focus is operated in tandem (excuse the literal pun…) by Mark and Jutta Brayne, from their home on the Norfolk Norfolk coast in the UK (though the photograph is of us cycling the Danube in 2018.)
Please browse on for our team’s personal biographies and backgrounds.
Mark Brayne
EMDR-Europe Accredited Consultant, Co-Director of Braynework
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’m co-Director with my partner Jutta Brayne of both EMDR Focus (as our EMDR training arm), and of our sister company Braynework through which we offer psychotherapy.
Katie Smith
Organisational and Technical Support
I am a UKCP registered integrative psychotherapist and EMDR therapist in private practice, and also co-founder with my brother George of Bilateral Base, EMDR’s increasingly go-to web app for delivering this amazing therapy online.
I met Mark Brayne in 2019 when I interviewed him for my doctoral research into ‘How EMDR can be integrated into a relational therapeutic approach when working with clients presenting with complex trauma’.
Kristina Sandstrom
EMDR-Europe Accredited Consultant, Chartered Counselling Psychologist
Kristina is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist with 13 years of experience within three nationally recognised services, including a tertiary specialist trauma service and a residential trauma clinic where she worked as a supervisor and trauma clinician.
Jutta Brayne
EMDR Europe Accredited Consultant
As an EMDR Consultant and UKCP registered psychotherapist my work reflects EMDR Focus’ integrative, client-centred and attachment-informed approach to psychotherapy. My thorough and comprehensive training in several mainstream therapy modalities, including trauma therapy, allows me to offer psychotherapy closely tailored to your needs and wishes as client.
James Thomas
EMDR UK Accredited Practitioner
James Thomas has been a Registered Mental Health Nurse for the past 25 years, and in 2014 was one of the first EMDR enthusiasts in the UK to train in depth (attending together with Mark Brayne a small group training event in York) with Dr Laurel Parnell.
Sarah Robinson
EMDR-Europe Accredited Consultant, CBT Therapist
My route into psychological therapies started in 2005 when, after qualifying as a nurse in the late 1990s, I first trained as a CBT therapist. After becoming familiar with this approach within a busy Crisis/Home Intensive treatment team, I was fortunate to secure a post as High Intensity Therapist with a local pilot IAPT service, going on to complete my EMDR training in 2009.
Priscilla Short
EMDR-Europe Accredited Consultant, EMDR Focus Training Facilitator
Priscilla Short is a counselling psychologist, relationship therapist and EMDR therapist. Highly experienced, she has worked in a range of different settings including private practice, the NHS (inpatient and outpatient settings) and the third sector. Priscilla’s first career was as a qualitative researcher and she remains passionate about having an evidence-based and research-informed practice, utilising psychoeducation in therapy.