Rayna Shock

After completing a BA Hons degree in French at London University, Rayna went on to complete her Postgraduate Certificate of Education at the Institute of Education in London. She taught in leading London schools for over 25 years before retraining as a counsellor. She became the first trained counsellor in the school where she taught and established three new counselling services for Signpost, a young people’s counselling charity, where she volunteered and later became Chair of Trustees.

In 2000, Rayna left teaching to focus on her private practice and the Emotional Literacy company she co-founded with Elissa Vale. She continued her studies and became both a UKCP-registered adult psychotherapist and a UKCP-registered child psychotherapist. Rayna is also a UKCP-registered clinical supervisor, trainer, tutor and former examiner.

After leaving the two Girls’ Day School Trust schools where she worked as lead counsellor for several years, Rayna now supervises many of the Trust’s Safeguarding and Pastoral Leads and helps co-ordinate counsellors across the Trust. She also continues to work with children, adolescents, adults, couples and families at her private practice in Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire.

Rayna is excited to help Echoes Charity achieve its aim of providing mental health support to everyone who needs it, especially people who may otherwise be unable to access that support.