A factual record for anyone considering The Ex Factor Guide, Mend the Marriage, or his paid coaching.
“Brad Browning” sells relationship and divorce advice to thousands of paying customers on the strength of two claims: that he is a credentialed expert, and that he is who he says he is. Both are false. This page documents that, with sources you can check yourself.
On his own websites and professional profiles, “Brad Browning” presents himself as university-trained in psychology. In his own words:
“Education: Bachelor of Arts (Psychology), University of British Columbia” bradbrowning.com/bio — archived 24 June 2026: web.archive.org/web/20260624220853/https://www.bradbrowning.com/bio/
“The University of British Columbia — Bachelor of Arts (BA), Psychology, 1999–2003” Brad Browning, LinkedIn profile (ca.linkedin.com/in/brbrowning)
The dates disprove themselves. Mark Borland graduated from Claremont Secondary School in 2004, and was born in 1986. A person born in 1986 would have been roughly 13 to 17 years old during the “1999–2003” window, and could not have finished a four-year university degree the year before graduating high school. The “Bachelor of Arts (Psychology), 1999–2003” he advertises is chronologically impossible on his own published timeline.
This matters because the entire premise of his products is expertise. Customers pay for guidance they believe comes from a trained professional. It does not.
The person selling these programs is Mark Borland, of Victoria, British Columbia. “Brad Browning” is a pen name. He is a co-founder of LoveLearnings Media Inc., the company behind The Ex Factor Guide and his other programs.
You can verify this yourself: his public Facebook profile is at facebook.com/mborland, under the name Mark Borland, of Victoria, British Columbia. It lists his education at Claremont Secondary School and his role as co-founder/owner of LoveLearnings Media Inc. since 2012 — the same company that publishes The Ex Factor Guide under the “Brad Browning” name.
There is nothing illegal about an author using a pen name. The issue is the combination: a fabricated credential, published under a fabricated name, sold as the work of a relationship expert who is neither named nor trained as he claims.
This is a consumer-information page. It makes no claim about whether his advice “works” — readers can judge the products on their own merits. It documents two specific, verifiable facts that his marketing conceals, so that customers can make an informed decision with complete information rather than the version he has chosen to present.
“Brad Browning” is a pen name. The author of The Ex Factor Guide is Mark Borland, of Victoria, British Columbia, a co-founder of LoveLearnings Media Inc., the company behind his relationship and divorce programs.
No — and neither does Mark Borland, the real person behind the name. On his own website and LinkedIn profile he advertises a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of British Columbia (1999–2003). He does not hold a degree from the University of British Columbia. The dates are also impossible: he was born in 1986 and graduated from Claremont Secondary School in 2004, so he could not have completed a four-year university degree in 2003. The psychology degree he advertises does not exist.
He markets himself as a university-trained relationship and divorce coach, but the psychology credential he advertises is not real, and he holds no disclosed professional qualification in counselling or psychology. Customers paying for his products and coaching should know that the expertise claimed in his marketing is not supported by the credential he presents.
The Ex Factor Guide, Mend the Marriage, and Beat the Breakup are sold under the name Brad Browning — a pen name for Mark Borland, a co-founder of LoveLearnings Media Inc. in Victoria, British Columbia.