Butterfly Courage – ReneeMcdonald

✦ Courage • Compassion • Care ✦

Renée McDonald: Butterfly
Courage®

“Courage is the first step. Compassion is the heart of healing. Care is what we do every day. Australia’s premier private practice for clinical counselling, depth psychotherapy, executive coaching, and clinical supervision.”

ABN: 87 669 359 522

19+ YEARS PRIVATE PRACTICE

PACFA & ICF ACCREDITED

WOLLONGONG NSW & WORLDWIDE

The Brand Constitution ✦

When We Lead With Courage, Live With Compassion, & Choose to Care — We Transform.

"The core values of Butterfly Courage® form an integrative sanctuary for healing, recovery, and rising after relational or personal rupture."

01 · COURAGE

COURAGE IS THE FIRST STEP

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PILLAR 01 · FOUNDATION

Courage Is The First Step

"It takes courage to face our truth, to stay open, and to choose a different path. Courage is what allows us to break cycles, confront relational rupture, and reclaim our personal sovereignty."

EXPLORE SERVICES ✦

02 · COMPASSION

THE HEART OF HEALING

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PILLAR 02 · HEALING

Compassion Is The Heart of Healing

"It allows us to be kind to ourselves and others, even in the mess, the pain, and the times we don't have the answers. Compassion dissolves shame and opens the space for authentic recovery."

SACRED SYMBOLS ✦

03 · CARE

WHAT WE DO EVERY DAY

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PILLAR 03 · ACTION

Care Is What We Do Every Day

"Small acts. Consistent choices. Showing up with intention. Caring is how we create safety, connection, and lasting change in our lives, our relationships, and our community."

MEET RENÉE ✦

Clinical Practice ✦

5 Core Modalities of Butterfly
Courage®

“Renée McDonald offers an integrative, trauma-informed clinical and coaching sanctuary for individuals, couples, executives, and organizations.”

1. Counselling (Short-Term Talk Ther) apy

Helps with: anxiety, grief, bereavement, loss, bullying, relationships, trauma, and stress. Solution-focused, existential, and person-centred short-term talking therapies.

2. Depth Psychotherapy (Long-Term Healing)

Helps with: childhood trauma, depression, fear & insecurities, destructive habits, and relational rupture. Integrative, existential, and humanistic depth work.

3. Life Coaching (Future-Focused Mentorship)

Helps with: confidence, career choices, accountability, goal setting, relationships, meaning, purpose, and happiness. Structured 90-day accountability.

4. Business Consulting (Commercial Advisory)

Helps with: changing workloads, business growth, training, upskilling, performance management, and financial planning. Holistic department optimization.

5. Business & Executive Coaching (Leadership Agility)

Helps with: productivity, motivation, leadership skills, performance, staff morale, communication, and marketing. A powerful blend of commercial metrics with deep personal leadership growth.

Symbolic Wisdom ✦

The Butterfly, The Queen Bee, & The
Matriarchal Orca Pod

“Three sacred symbolic concepts woven throughout Renée McDonald’s clinical practice to empower resilience, leadership, and emotional intelligence.”

01 · BUTTERFLY COURAGE

SYMBOL 01 · TRANSFORMATION

✓ The Butterfly 🦋 — Renewal & Courage

The butterfly symbolizes transformation through life, renewal, and metamorphosis. It represents the courage required to shed past conditioning, emerge from relational rupture, and spread your wings into a self-directed, meaningful future.

SYMBOL 02 · LEADERSHIP

✓ The Queen Bee 🐝 — Female Leadership

The queen bee embodies feminine leadership, royal gold resilience, and community building. In Renée’s executive work, Queen Bee energy represents leading without apology, nurturing the hive, and building collaborative enterprises that thrive on shared strength.

02 · QUEEN BEE ENERGY

03 · THE ORCA POD

SYMBOL 03 · WOMEN OF THE PACK

✓ The Matriarchal Orca Pod 🐋

“The wise women move as one, guided by ancestral knowing and deep emotional intelligence. United in strength, compassion, and strategy, they lead with heart, protect with purpose, and uplift every voice.” In killer whale pods, groups of very strong women lead—a guiding archetype for matriarchal unity.

Lead Practitioner ✦

Renée McDonald — Lead Clinician & Practice Manager

“Therapy is not just about putting things right. It’s about being able to communicate with more ease and grace and allowing yourself to be a more human and more alive…”

With over 24 years of clinical, coaching, and supervision experience and 19+ years as the owner of Renée McDonald: Butterfly Courage® (ABN: 37 700 167 053), Renée has dedicated her career to helping individuals, couples, and organizations overcome complexity.

She is an accredited PACFA Clinical Member, ICF Member, ACTO Professional Member, and accredited clinical supervisor/mentor (PACFA & ACSA)—operating from two prestigious Wollongong NSW practice rooms as well as worldwide via secure telehealth.

ABN: 37 700 167 053

19+ YRS PRIVATE PRACTICE

PACFA CLINICAL MEMBER

ACSA ACCREDITED SUPERVISOR

IN-PERSON SANCTUARY

Wollongong NSW Practice Rooms

Renée McDonald delivers confidential in-person counselling, psychotherapy, executive coaching, and clinical supervision from two prestigious consulting rooms in central Wollongong NSW.

✦ Wollongong Consulting Locations:

Level 1, Suite 8, 104 Crown Street, Wollongong NSW 2500 Australia

WORLDWIDE PORTABILITY

Worldwide Video Telehealth

Regardless of your geographical location or international time zone, Renée conducts high-impact video and phone consultations worldwide via secure encrypted telehealth platforms.

✦ 100% Encrypted Video Sanctuary:

End-to-end encrypted Zoom video telehealth and professional audio-only phone consultations available Monday to Friday.

Courage • Compassion • Care ✦

COURAGE IS THE FIRST STEP

“When we lead with courage, live with compassion, and choose to care— we transform. Book your complimentary 15-minute consultation with Renée McDonald today.”

Renée McDonald Private Practice (ABN: 87 669 359 522) • Australian Online Therapy Training (AOTT) Pty Ltd (ACN: 631 963 954) — Director Wellbeing4me™ & AOTT Healing Centre Clinics: Level 1, Suite 8, 104 Crown Street, Wollongong NSW 2500 Australia. ✦ All Content Verbatim from reneemcdonald.com & Official Brand Constitution ✦

Renée McDonald: Butterfly
Courage®