About Renee
Adolescence and young adulthood doesn’t have to be so hard. With the right support and guidance every teen and young adult can lead a confident and amazing life.
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Renee McClure is a dynamic therapist, life coach, educator, and speaker. Over the past 30 years, Renee has helped hundreds of teens and adults learn how to effectively manage their anxiety and build resilience and confidence as they embark on major transitions in their life such as entering high school, college, and the workforce.
She excels at understanding teens and helping them through the challenges of adolescence and young adulthood. She is highly effective at helping parents identify how to best support their children as they work through these challenges.
Renee has a unique approach to both therapy and coaching. She is known for her sense of humor while combining her conventional training as a psychotherapist with effective alternative modalities, energy psychology, and her training as a TeenWisdom Certified Teen Life Coach. Renee believes that one approach is not fit for all. She assesses her client’s needs and collaborates with them to design a successful strategy.
As part of her commitment to finding effective complements to traditional therapy, Renee utilizes EFT tapping as well as being an Advanced Practitioner in Self Regulation Therapy for the Canadian Foundation for Trauma Research and Education. In addition, Renee is an Eponaquest Advanced Instructor in Equine Facilitated Learning.
Renee believes that when a girl can identify her core values and has a vision of what kind of person she wants to be, she has the power to make great decisions. Therapy and life coaching with Renee helps girls develop the self-awareness, self esteem and resiliency to stay true to these values and make empowered decisions.
What You Will Learn With Renee
With over 30 years of working with girls and families in all different kinds of settings, Renee has found Four Pillars to working with anxiety. By addressing these Four Pillars, adolescent and young women can be equipped to manage their anxiety on a long-term basis.
Throughout therapy, Renee will teach girls the Four Pillars to Manage their Anxiety Long-term. They include:
Education – Helping girls understand what is going on in their bodies and brain. Educating clients on why they experience certain physical symptoms and why they respond the way they do can help them understand their symptoms and not be as afraid of them.
Awareness – Helping girls gain self-awareness of how their stress or anxiety shows up. Renee likes to think that everyone has their own flavor as to how their anxiety presents itself through certain behaviors, feelings, thoughts, actions, or inactions. When girls understand what their anxiety looks like, they can better understand and manage those behaviors, thoughts, and feelings.
Self-Compassion/Sense of Humor - Girls that are stressed or anxious tend to be very hard on themselves. Teaching them how to be kinder to themselves and gain a sense of humor around their anxiety is the most important pillar. Without self-compassion and a sense of humor, you are just a very aware and knowledgeable anxious person. Self-compassion allows you to try different strategies and more easily work through challenges.
Self-Care Strategies/Tools – Renee teaches girls coping skills and strategies tailored to them, giving them the tools they need to manage their stress while creating a self-care routine that shows them how to manage their stress and anxiety long-term.