Dr Philippa Shadrach
Based in West Cross, Swansea
Dr Philippa Shadrach trained first as a Psychiatric Social Worker in the 1970’s and then as a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and has practised since the 1980’s. Training as a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist is rigorous and long (in excess of five years) and includes the necessity for the trainees to undergo their own analysis.
About me
Dr Shadrach has worked in NHS Psychotherapy Departments, Child and Adult Psychiatry, Child Guidance Clinics and various Counselling and Therapy agencies as well as private practice. She also developed and was Course Leader for a Diploma in Psychodynamic Counselling that received BACP accreditation. She has a Diploma in Supervision and a Clinical Doctorate in Psychotherapy.
She is experienced in both intensive, long-term Psychotherapy and brief focal work. She works with individuals, couples and families.
She is registered with BPF and BCP and abides by their Codes of Ethics. Both institutions have comprehensive complaints and disciplinary procedures which include the sanction of striking a practitioner off their membership lists.
Will it work for you?
Research over 40 years has proved convincingly that therapy works and that at the end of treatment the average treated person is better off than the untreated sample and that these gains are maintained over time after the end of therapy. Research further shows that there is little difference in outcome between the different types of psychotherapy but that a major factor in good outcome is the relationship between therapist and patient. To that end Dr Shadrach suggests two initial assessment sessions for you to see if she is the right person for you and for her to see if she feels she can be of help.
