A former foreign correspondent with Reuters and the BBC, Mark specialised as psychotherapist in trauma, anxiety, depression and relationships.
In early 2020 and just before his 70th birthday, he was diagnosed in very much later life as Aspergers, “on the spectrum” as is the modish description. Aspergers gave Mark focus and passion as a journalist, and as campaigner for better reporting and support around trauma.
As well as working with individuals, Mark has been a qualified psychotherapy supervisor, with his journalistic background also supporting journalists and news organisations in the reporting and personal impact of traumatic events.
Mark and Jutta love the landscape of New Zealand, which is where they photographed most of the banner landscapes on this website during cycling tours of the South Island in 2012, and on their tandem Daisy from the very top of Aotearoa (Cape Reinga) to the very bottom (Bluff) in 2016.
If you’re curious about their legacy approach to psychotherapy, journalism (and life…), feel free to browse here, and to download and explore some of the following articles Mark contributed to various publications. You can read up here on his diagnosis of ASD/Aspergers.
EMDR and the Transpersonal – EMDR Now January 2017
The Future of the Standard Protocol, EMDR Now, January 2015
Hoffman Process Magazine article on the T-Word- August 2016
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Piece on Lovelock for Transformations (1)
Tackling the Macho Culture – ACW Book 2006 (1)
Emotions, Trauma and Good Journalism, 2006
BBC From Our Own Correspondent on Psychotherapy 2001
Guardian Media on Journalism and Trauma, July 2002
The Personal Experience of the Foreign Correspondent, Masters Thesis 2000