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