About Second Wind Counseling and mental Performance
A “second wind” is often described in athletics as the moment a person pushes through exhaustion and begins to regain energy, focus, and endurance after feeling physically or mentally fatigued. At Second Wind Counseling and Mental Performance, we believe people can experience a similar process emotionally and mentally after stress, trauma, burnout, pressure, setbacks, and difficult seasons of life. Through therapy and mental performance work, individuals can rebuild confidence, strengthen resilience, improve mindset, and reconnect with purpose and direction. Our hope is that individuals, athletes, and high performers leave feeling more hopeful, grounded, restored, and confident in their ability to move forward with greater clarity and emotional strength.
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Meet the Founder
My Therapeutic Style
Evidence-Based Care
I’m Tammera McClenton, LPC-S, a therapist and mental performance professional with over 10 years of experience helping individuals, athletes, and high performers navigate anxiety, trauma, emotional challenges, and life stress. I earned my Master’s degree in Christian Counseling and am passionate about helping people
Evidence-Based Care
My Therapeutic Style
Evidence-Based Care
My work is grounded in evidence-based approaches that support both emotional healing and mental performance, including:
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)
- Complex trauma-informed care
My Therapeutic Style
My Therapeutic Style
My Therapeutic Style
I create a space that is nonjudgmental, supportive, and grounded in compassion where you can show up as you are and feel understood. At the same time, I don’t just sit with you in the hard moments I help guide you through them. My approach combines the support of a therapist with the direction of a coach, allowing you to feel both safe and challenged as you grow.
Find Your Second Wind In Life and Performance
A supportive space to process emotional pain, mental health challenges, and life stressors impacting your daily life and well-being. Therapy focuses on healing, emotional insight, and developing healthier ways to cope, function, and move forward.
Focus areas:
- Anxiety Disorders
- Depressive Disorders
- PTSD and Trauma Recovery
- Anger management
- Life stressors, Isolation, loneliness
Mental performance coaching helps individuals strengthen their mindset, confidence, discipline, and focus to perform at a higher level personally, professionally, or athletically. This work is goal-oriented and designed to improve consistency, resilience, and mental toughness under pressure.
Focus areas:
- Goal setting and accountability strategies
- Confidence Building techniques
- Managing performance anxiety
- Visualization and mental rehearsal
- Mindset shifts for growth
Athlete support focuses on the unique emotional and identity-related challenges athletes face both inside and outside of competition. This work helps athletes navigate pressure, transitions, injuries, burnout, and balancing performance with personal well-being.
Focus areas:
- Pre-performance mindset
- Emotional regulation under pressure
- Identity outside of sport
- Burnout & athletic stress
- Confidence after setbacks or injury
Learn practical skills to better manage intense emotions, stress, and emotional reactions in everyday life. This work focuses on building self-awareness, coping skills, and resilience so you can respond rather than react during difficult moments.
Focus areas:
- Managing overwhelming emotions
- Strengthening emotion regulation skills
- Developing distress tolerance and coping skills.
- Building resilience under pressures
- Healthy communication & Boundaries
Support through seasons of change, uncertainty, and personal growth. Whether you’re navigating career changes, relationship shifts, identity struggles, or feeling stuck in life, this work helps you gain clarity and reconnect with your direction and purpose.
Focus areas:
- Life transitions & uncertainty
- Developing a vision for your life
- Feeling stuck or directionless
- Confidence & self-worth
- Personal growth & self-discovery
Designed for individuals feeling mentally, emotionally, or physically exhausted from constantly pushing, performing, or caring for others. This work focuses on restoring balance, improving emotional wellness, and preventing chronic burnout.
Focus areas:
- Chronic stress
- Stress management
- Emotional exhaustion
- Burnout recovery
- Work-life balance
- Rest, recovery, & self-care
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