As a runner sidelined by injury, I found Dr. Michelle encouraging and helpful. Her sessions are productive, actionable, and, many times, enjoyable. Her insights helped me to discover that what had been holding me back were negative beliefs about myself that I had grown up with, and she helped me to replace these with new beliefs about myself that were both positive and better resonated with me.

Dr. Michelle has a direct no-nonsense approach that has helped me to tackle problems and overcome obstacles. Her advice has helped me to quickly laser focus on the things I need to do to achieve my goals and her strategies are both powerful and easy to follow.

I was frustrated with the divide between my ability and the results I was getting. Once I started working with Dr. Michelle, the results were immediate. I began advancing further in highly-competitive auditions and having more satisfying performances. She helped me let go of the details, focus on the big picture, and play from the heart.

I very much appreciate Dr. Michelle’s breadth and depth of knowledge and her willingness to share what she knows. Amazingly, my game has improved after this camp. I say “amazingly” because I truly did not expect to see results right away.

I’ve been dealing with the yips in pickleball (serving, forehand attack) for more time than I care for, and the clinic gave me actionable tools to work on it (focus, repeatable routines, getting out of my head). They clearly identified the critical moments in pickleball and how to learn and form new routines to counter-balance our natural tendency to think about what just happened instead of staying in the present moment.

I just completed an 18-week session with Dr. Michelle and literally, she has changed my life! I initially went to her to help me with some mental challenges surrounding my tennis game but lo and behold, our work together transformed not only my tennis game for the better but it also helped me to see where I was stuck in my professional and personal life. She worked with me on a number of issues but one that I have greatly benefited from is addressing my “old” feelings of being responsible for everyone and everything. Once I realized why I did this and understood that I no longer had to, I could feel the burden lift with every passing day. At the end of our session, I felt empowered, in control, reinvigorated, happier, ready and excited to embark on my new semi-retired life this year!

Our daughter’s sports performance anxiety improved so much we then asked Michelle to expand her efforts to our daughter’s schoolwork, a tougher beast. Within a few weeks our daughter was able to better enjoy her achievements at her school and in her life. She is always going to hard-driving – it is part of her DNA – but our daughter has still managed to become more balanced and, incredibly, more relaxed over time, even as her high school ramps up. She gives Michelle a lot of credit for her progress.

My son is a top ranked swimmer who was facing challenges of self confidence in his sport. Dr. Michelle clearly understands the pressures of being an elite youth athlete and the pressures of making the transition to college sports. With Dr. Michelle’s help, my son has developed techniques to thrive in a very challenging environment. He has used his new approach to achieve personal bests in the pool and feels ready for the next step.

Our daughter is a talented athlete that rose quickly to national ranking. As she hit early teens she was increasingly overcome with performance anxiety, freezing at competitions … We were unable to solve, and matters got worse. She then started seeing Dr Michelle. She instantly took to Michelle, loved her time with Michelle, trusted her to confide in about anything and really took to heart Michelle’s advice, Michelle’s advice trumped everything. 

Best of all what she learned has set her up to better deal with school and stress and every day issues.

Dr. Michelle is phenomenal. Her expertise and coaching have made a profound impact on me, both as a musician and as a person. I’m blessed to have worked with her for almost 3 years. Her deep understanding of performance psychology and her ability to tailor each session to my specific needs have been instrumental in my growth and development. From the moment we started working together, I felt understood, supported, and challenged in the best possible way.

Since working with Dr. Michelle, I’ve gained confidence in performing, found my own authentic voice within music, and achieved milestones I once thought were unattainable – namely finishing my Licentiate diploma as my foray into becoming a professional pianist, and excelling in competitions. Her encouragement and belief in my potential never wavered, especially during moments when I doubted myself.

We hired Dr. Cleere to help our aspiring ballerina to enter professional dance world.  In many ways, ballet training is very similar to any athletic training, with one major difference. Being ignored and not getting correction from a  teacher would lead to her total inability to self correct, or analyze her own strength or weakness, which resulted in constant state of panic. What Dr. Cleere was able to achieve through her very patient and nonchalant approach with our kid, was to first, slowly but surely, teach her how to pay attention and feel her body during class. She kept bringing her attention to how her class or audition felt both physically and mentally. Towards the end of our series of sessions, our daughter moved across country having joined a professional company as a trainee. She is slowly learning to take teachers’ criticism or praise not as final verdict of her ballet career but as an objective feedback.

My athletic career was wildly successful, but I wish I could time travel and do it all over again with Michelle on my team. The adversity I faced would have been less painful and the wins would have been sweeter. It’s stunning to see what happens when you shine light on your strengths, passions, and personal power, and I wouldn’t have truly figured that out without Michelle’s brilliant questions or personal example.

I’m an athlete that had some mental roadblocks that were preventing
me from performing at my best. I was amazed at how it not only helped me in sports, but also how it transformed my life in everything that I do. This kind of change is so deep because it’s work that you can do for yourself once you learn the techniques.

I first came to Dr Michelle after years of doubting myself and my capabilities in my sport. I had had coaches over the years who I allowed to reinforce my negative thinking and while they pushed me to work harder and achieve more, I believed less and less in myself. Without totally knowing it, I created a negative thinking pattern which kept me from feeling good about myself, my goals and my own potential. I was damaged from the past, fearful of the future and stuck in an uncomfortable place.

Dr. Michelle gave me so many tools and exercises to begin to retrain my brain. One lesson that has had the strongest impact was about objectivity and not adding anything to my performance or my practice. In the past, I would judge myself based on if something went good or bad, which often left me doubting myself and feeling like I had failed. Instead, Dr Michelle encouraged me to look at the situation with an objective eye. I have learned, and continue to learn, how to live more in the moment of the performance, how to share the performance with my audience, rather than be stuck in my own mind about it. This really helped me to see the bigger picture, to free myself from judgment and open my eyes to a new world of happiness and acceptance.

Before I began work with Dr. Michelle Cleere I was frustrated with the divide between my ability and the results I was getting. Once we got started the results were immediate and pronounced. I began advancing much further in highly-competitive, international auditions and having more satisfying performances. She helped me to let go of the details, focus on the big picture and play from the heart.

Working with Dr. Michelle Cleere to prepare for a Firearms Instructor Bullseye Shoot-off competition was invaluable. Dr. Cleere counseled me on addressing the mental challenges of shooting and guided me to a deeper level of focus that helped to mute the external distractions, internal static and self-doubt. In that focused state of mind, I could truly concentrate on the process of shooting, not the results. Dr. Cleere helped me to see that it is in the process where I have true control and where the actual fun of the competition lies.