Enneagram Therapy and Coaching
"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change. "
- Carl Rogers
Treading water but never reaching shore?
Two decades ago, I was ready to finally break free from old habits, repeating relationship struggles, emotional roadblocks, and self-sabotaging patterns, that’s when I first discovered the enneagram.
The Enneagram reveals where you are, what’s possible for you, and the path to get there.
What is the Enneagram?
The Enneagram (Ennea = “nine” and gram = “points”) is a dynamic personality framework that reveals our core motivations, fears, and desires. It provides us with a map of our unique pattern of thinking, feeling, and behaving—patterns that once helped us survive but now may limit us from thriving.
Just like years of tension create muscle knots, our unconscious patterns tighten over time—restricting our flexibility, straining our relationships, and quietly generating pain beneath the surface.
The Enneagram helps us see clearly:
WHY we repeatedly fall into certain habits and behaviors.
WHAT our core emotional needs, fears, strengths, and blind spots are.
HOW to step out of autopilot, respond thoughtfully, and build lasting change.
IFS (Internal Family Systems, or parts work)
EMDR
Somatic and Mindfulness Therapy
Attachment Theory
My Integrative, Holistic Approach with the Enneagram
The enneagram supports you in engaging in holistic growth. Because there are no good types and no bad types, you take an honest look at your type—not to judge, but to discern which patterns support you and which ones no longer serve you. Unlike many other approaches to the enneagram, I focus on turning up the volume of the essential qualities of our type. The essential qualities are the pure strengths of our personality underneath the fixation of our ego structure.
Common Issues the Enneagram Helps With:
Clients often seek Enneagram therapy or coaching when:
Struggling with anxiety, depression, guilt, shame, or resentment
Feeling stagnant or stuck in life’s direction and purpose
Experiencing burnout, compassion fatigue, or chronic stress
Navigating maladaptive relationship patterns, or social isolation
As someone personally transformed by the Enneagram (and deeply familiar with its insights as a therapist and coach), I understand the powerful clarity and growth it brings. It’s truly life-changing.
While the enneagram maps out different personality patterns, it is a tool that helps us to not take our struggles so personally. This tool offers language and insight for the patterns in our lives and relationships that once felt confusing. But it doesn’t stop at self-awareness—it provides a meaningful path forward.
Unlike many personality frameworks, the Enneagram is a tool for transformation, not just understanding. When integrated with therapy, it becomes a powerful guide for deep, sustained personal and relational growth—beyond what traditional talk therapy alone can offer.
Enneagram Therapy vs. Coaching: What’s Right for You?
Enneagram Therapy:
Allows you to engage in growth beyond a psychiatric diagnosis.
Addresses emotional and mental health issues, relationships, or past traumas.
Uses the Enneagram alongside other therapeutic approaches.
Provides balanced exploration of past, present, and future.
Medium-paced with regular sessions (typically weekly).
Available only to residents of New York and Colorado.
May qualify for insurance reimbursement (out-of-network).
Enneagram Coaching:
Focuses primarily on Enneagram-based personal growth, goal-setting, and action-oriented tasks.
Faster-paced with flexible session scheduling (frequency and length).
Enneagram coaching can go deep; however, it does not meet medical necessity, meaning that if our work is directly correlated to your ability to function personally and professionally, you need a higher level of therapeutic care, and are not a good fit for coaching at this time.
Available globally with no geographic restrictions.
Not eligible for insurance reimbursement.
- Lao Tzu
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