Enneagram Therapy
The Enneagram is a personality model that describes the core motivations, needs, and fears that drive us to engage life in deeply patterned ways.
The same patterns that helped us cope and survive difficult experiences can keep us unconsciously trapped in painful lifestyles and relationship patterns.
Using the Enneagram, we help our clients uncover their patterns and develop new, healthy habits and balance for their unique personality type.
Learn more about each of the nine Enneagram types below.
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The 9 Enneagram Types
Type 1
THE IMPROVER
Focus on what could be better, what's wrong
Motivated by a desire to live the right way, improve the world
Avoid fault and blame
Type 2
THE BEFRIENDER
Focus on being connected to others
Motivated by a need to be liked/loved and needed
Avoid rejection, acknowledging and expressing own needs
Type 3
THE PERFORMER
Focus on tasks, goals, success, image
Motivated by a need to be (or appear to be) successful
Avoid failure (and appearing to fail)
Type 4
THE INDIVIDUALIST
Focus on emotions, the state of relationships, being authentically oneself, what's missing
Motivated by a need to be understood and to experience their oversized feelings
Avoid being ordinary or like others
Type 5
THE INVESTIGATOR
Focus on knowledge, privacy, managing energy/space/resources
Motivated by a need to gain knowledge, conserve energy
Avoid relying on others, emotions
Type 6
THE LOYALIST
Focus on risk, danger, and threats; preparing for the worst
Motivated by fear and the need to feel safe and secure
Avoid uncertainty and spontaneity
Type 7
THE ENTHUSIAST
Focus on pleasure, positives, possibilities
Motivated by a need to be happy, to plan stimulating/exciting experiences
Avoid pain and discomfort
Type 8
THE CHALLENGER
Focus on power and control
Motivated by a need to be strong
Avoid feeling week or vulnerable, being exploited or betrayed
Type 9
THE PEACEMAKER
Focus on others, what's happening in the environment
Motivated by a need to keep the peace, achieve harmony, merge with others
Avoid conflict, anger, separation from others