Kim Baillie-Burgoyne
Cape Town Psychologist
Understanding the patterns that once helped you cope and learning how to change them.
Why Therapy with me?
People often come to therapy when they’ve learned how to cope (sometimes very well), yet still feel tired, stuck, or quietly unhappy beneath the surface. You may understand yourself intellectually, but notice familiar patterns repeating in relationships, work, or how you treat yourself, while your own needs have been pushed aside.
In therapy with me, we work carefully and compassionately with these long-standing patterns, focusing on where they developed, how they continue to shape your life, and where you may have become lost along the way. My approach is grounded in schema therapy, which goes beyond insight alone to support meaningful and lasting change.
What is Schema Therapy?
Schema Therapy helps make sense of why certain emotional patterns keep repeating, even when you understand yourself well and want things to change. Many of these patterns developed early in life as ways of coping with relationships, expectations, or emotional needs that weren’t fully met at the time. Although they once helped you get through, they can later show up as self-criticism, people-pleasing, emotional shutdown, anxiety, or feeling stuck in the same cycles.
In therapy, we gently explore these patterns and the different “parts” of you that show up in difficult moments, with curiosity rather than blame. Change happens not just through insight, but through emotional experiences that help you feel safer, more grounded, and more able to respond differently. The aim is to strengthen your healthy adult side, reduce the pull of old patterns, and help you live with more choice, self-compassion, and emotional freedom.
About Me
I am a Clinical Psychologist with a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Cape town. I also hold Diplomas in Schema, and Advanced Schema approaches from the South African Institute of Schema Therapy. I hold over a decade of experience across public health, hospitals, community services, research, and private practice. I work with difficulties including depression, anxiety, trauma, personality patterns, and life transitions.
Fees and Availability
I am contracted to all major medical aids and charge medical aid rates, which I can generally claim directly on your behalf. If I am not contracted to your medical aid, my practice is registered with the Board of Healthcare Funders and so my fees can be claimed back by you from your medical aid depending on your medical aid benefits.
Currently, medical aid rates generally average R1,300 – R1,400 per 50 minute session.
For cash paying clients, I currently offer a reduced fee of R1,200 per 50 minute session.
I am registered with the Health Professions Council of South Africa (PS 0127418) and the Board of Healthcare Funders (0694134)
I am currently available weekday mornings and have limited availability in the afternoons.
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