About Renier

Compassionate & Conscious Mirror for your Inner Growth

Hello, I’m Renier, a gentle soul from Cape Town, South Africa. As a sensitive and neurodivergent man, I’ve carried a deep compassion for human suffering since childhood. Nature is where my whole being exhales, whether I’m walking in the forest, standing barefoot in cold ocean water, or journaling beside a clear stream.

With nearly 15 years as a Professional Coach and Accredited Enneagram Practitioner, my purpose is simple: to support your unique path of self-discovery, healing, and growth. My background in retail, sales, and real estate also gives me a grounded understanding of the pressures you may face in daily life.

I’m 47 now, shaped by more than 30 years of intentional inner work and seasons that included anxiety, burnout, cancer surgery, and depression. These experiences taught me a simple truth: genuine transformation has no quick fix. It asks for courage, patience, and self-compassion as we meet life as it is, rather than trying to avoid or control life.

Both my Master’s in Religious Studies (MDiv) and my International Coaching Federation–accredited training have deepened my ability to meet people with sensitivity across religious, spiritual, and secular worldviews — and to hold each person safely with a trauma-informed approach —honouring their beliefs while never steering their journey.

Over the years, I’ve moved away from rigid ideas of right and wrong and the search for a correct answer to life. It’s guided me toward a more open, curious, and grounded way of being – rooted in self-compassion, mindfulness, and a sense of worth that holds through life’s uncertainty and challenges.

I see healing and growth as an ongoing unfolding- like a tree moving through its seasons without judgement. And even though you grow within a forest, your scars and unfolding remain distinct from the trees and life around you.

Depending on where you are, you might find value in a single session or in a longer, more in-depth journey – both are welcome.

Themes I’ve worked deeply with in my own life
(and yours may be different – or even the opposite)

• Learning to honour my needs and boundaries: the antidote to destructive people-pleasing.
• Cultivating mindfulness & somatic awareness – gentle presence with kindness, curiosity, and non-judgement: the antidote to a harsh inner critic and disconnecting from yourself and others.
• Building honest self-awareness of strengths, patterns, and blind spots: the antidote to self- and relational sabotage.
• Transforming my relationship with emotional pain: the antidote to suppressing joy.
• Practising self-compassion, knowing none of us chose our wiring, childhood, or trauma – the antidote to toxic shame.