Therapy Backed By A Powerful System That Celebrates Your Strengths
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What Is Enneagram Therapy?Enneagram therapy combines traditional psychological techniques with the wisdom of the Enneagram system. This system originated in the Middle East and has been used for centuries as a tool to help people understand their personality traits and grow. It emphasizes the strengths and challenges of your internal world and helps you interface with people who are different than you in effective, compassionate ways.
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Understand Your Personality Type
At the beginning of Enneagram therapy, it’s important for us to first understand your type according to the Enneagram system. If you already know or have a strong inkling about your type, great! If not, it's something we can explore together. While we all have a little bit of every type in us, think of your primary type as your core operating system, such as Windows, Mac, or Linux.
Each person is assigned one of nine distinct personality archetypes based on the system. The core types are reformer, helper, achiever, individualist, investigator, loyalist, enthusiast, challenger, and peacemaker. Learning about each type will help you gain insight into your own character traits and areas for growth. It's best not to take a test, but rather to read about each type and note which types resonate, which types make you feel uncomfortable, and which seem most mysterious to you. Pay close attention to each type's core motivation and core fear.
Explore Your Traits
Once we know your primary type, we can begin exploring your underlying motivations and unconscious behavior patterns in more depth. These sessions involve discussing your thoughts, feelings, behavior patterns, reactions to others, to stressors and triggers from past experiences, as well as hopes and dreams for the future. The goal is to heal trauma, build compassion for yourself and others, and live up to your fullest potential, no matter what type you are.
Identify Unhelpful Patterns
There are no bad types, only unhealthy versions of each type that present with unique problems. Enneagram therapy sessions allow us to identify any unhelpful or negative patterns that you may have developed over time as well as how they impact your daily life. This may include difficulties with relationships or navigating difficult situations at work or home environments. Understanding these behaviors - and most importantly, their motivations - can help individuals develop new coping strategies that replace old patterns with healthier alternatives when faced with challenging situations.
At the beginning of Enneagram therapy, it’s important for us to first understand your type according to the Enneagram system. If you already know or have a strong inkling about your type, great! If not, it's something we can explore together. While we all have a little bit of every type in us, think of your primary type as your core operating system, such as Windows, Mac, or Linux.
Each person is assigned one of nine distinct personality archetypes based on the system. The core types are reformer, helper, achiever, individualist, investigator, loyalist, enthusiast, challenger, and peacemaker. Learning about each type will help you gain insight into your own character traits and areas for growth. It's best not to take a test, but rather to read about each type and note which types resonate, which types make you feel uncomfortable, and which seem most mysterious to you. Pay close attention to each type's core motivation and core fear.
Explore Your Traits
Once we know your primary type, we can begin exploring your underlying motivations and unconscious behavior patterns in more depth. These sessions involve discussing your thoughts, feelings, behavior patterns, reactions to others, to stressors and triggers from past experiences, as well as hopes and dreams for the future. The goal is to heal trauma, build compassion for yourself and others, and live up to your fullest potential, no matter what type you are.
Identify Unhelpful Patterns
There are no bad types, only unhealthy versions of each type that present with unique problems. Enneagram therapy sessions allow us to identify any unhelpful or negative patterns that you may have developed over time as well as how they impact your daily life. This may include difficulties with relationships or navigating difficult situations at work or home environments. Understanding these behaviors - and most importantly, their motivations - can help individuals develop new coping strategies that replace old patterns with healthier alternatives when faced with challenging situations.
Alexis Bibler, AMFT Specializing in adults and couples 
Laurel Roberts-Meese, LMFT Specializing in adults and EMDR |
Deepen Relationships
Have you ever wondered why on earth your partner or friend is behavior a certain way when it's clearly not effective or in their best interest? As you move through the world, you are constantly interacting with people who have a different core type than you. You may find yourself confused, bewildered, frustrated, or angry at others and wonder why people behave in certain ways. Understanding the essential motivations and fears of others through the enneagram system can deepen your romantic relationships, family relationships, friendships, and even work relationships in profound ways, leading to less conflict and more feelings of connection, compassion, and love. Develop New Strategies and Habits During an Enneagram counseling session you'll likely discuss how events or particular relationships have impacted you throughout your life and form strategies for overcoming negative thoughts about yourself around specific topics such as self-worth or self-image issues.. You'll also explore healthier solutions for managing stressors and communicating with others who have a different internal world that you. In addition to identifying unhealthy behaviors associated with one's primary personality type, one of enneagram therapy's greatest objectives is addressing habitual thought and behavioral processes which lead people down emotional dead ends rather than paths towards growth. Knowing your therapist is using a time-tested and reliable system may help you feel trust in the process and theoretical foundation of our work. I'm excited to guide you through personal exploration while finding the solutions best suited towards achieving peace through life’s many ups-and-downs. |
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