Kim Bradie

I have limited availability on Thursday's and Fridays as of July 2024

Looking for talking therapy can be daunting, whether you are considering it for the first time or perhaps seeking a new perspective, choosing the right counsellor for you is important.

Counselling and psychotherapy involve the use of talking therapy to illuminate, explore, process and potentially re-frame your experiences, thoughts and feelings. My work is collaborative, compassionate, person-centred and trauma responsive, and I can hold a space for you while you heal, grow or change.

The core principles of my approach are to:

• Be present with acceptance and compassion whilst you explore the experiences, thought processes, feelings and parts of you that might not always be seen by others that could be impacting your relationships or capacity to fulfil your true potential.
• Provide a safe space, a strong and robust therapeutic relationship and a place where you can find your own unique combination of healing, growth and change.
• Allow you to lead and guide the focus of our work and unearth your own insights and solutions. Although my way of working is non-directive, I might gently support this process with the use of empathic questioning or honest perceptions but never without compassion and acceptance.
• Work holistically to support you to find self-awareness, stillness of mind and a new connection with yourself.
• Be trauma responsive at all times, by incorporating trust, safety, empowerment, choice and collaboration into our relationship, interactions and environment.

I am trained in the Humanistic approach which supports you to freely explore your whole life experience. I have experience of offering short- and long-term psychotherapeutic counselling to a diverse range of adults, specialist work with 18-25-year-olds, and as an initial assessment counsellor within Edinburgh counselling services. As a facilitator of trauma informed and responsive education and coaching for professionals as part of Scotland's national training programme, I bring knowledge, skills and core values from this work to my approach. I have over 20 years experience in holding space for individuals, families and groups in therapeutic and educational roles in the NHS, alongside work in community health projects and third sector organisations. 

I work with anyone over 16 and offer either short or long term psychotherapeutic counselling. I have experience of working with a broad range of issues, including anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, addictions, loss and trauma.

Alongside offering person centred counselling and psychotherapy I also  work holistically either one to one or in closed groups integrating yoga and psychotherapy. This harnesses the power of the body and breath to find stillness in the mind, offers clients an opportunity to experience the benefits of the emotional regulation and self-awareness, optimising the benefits of talking therapy. Please see my website for further details.

I offer a free 15-30 minute initial call so that you can get a sense of me, and to explore how we might best work together - please contact me and we can get this set up.

After this our first session will be another opportunity for us to get to know each other and can be the beginning of our work together - or might just be a stand alone session if you decide I am not the right counsellor for you.

I can offer weekly or fortnightly sessions, and can work online in some circumstances. I work from two Edinburgh locations but if you would like to be in nature and walk and talk, that is possible too. I offer 50-minute sessions at £50 (£60/60 mins Integrative Yoga Psychotherapy) and have a limited number of concessionary spaces available - please contact me to chat if cost is a barrier.