Enneagram Therapy
The Enneagram is not a personality test. It's a map of nine distinct motivational structures, each with a core fear, a core longing, and a particular way of defending against pain. In therapy it becomes a powerful lens for understanding why you do what you do, and what it would look like to be less defended and more free.
What Makes the Enneagram Different
Most personality frameworks describe behavior. The Enneagram describes motivation, the 'why' underneath the behavior. Two people can behave identically for completely different reasons, and the Enneagram can tell them apart.
This makes it particularly valuable in therapy, where understanding the root of a pattern matters more than labeling the pattern itself.
Type and subtypesUnderstanding your core type, the way it shows up across social, one-to-one, and self-preservation contexts
Fixations and passionsThe automatic patterns of thought and emotion that drive behavior without your awareness
Levels of healthUnderstanding how your type looks at its most defended, and what growth looks like from where you are
Enneagram in relationshipsHow different types interact, where the natural friction lives, and how to work with it rather than against it
Certified Narrative Enneagram Teachers
Becca Moravec is a Certified Narrative Enneagram Practitioner and Teacher, one of a small number of certified teachers worldwide through The Narrative Enneagram. This approach emphasizes the lived experience of each type rather than test results and abstract theory.
How the Enneagram Works in Therapy
In a standard therapy context, the Enneagram often surfaces on its own. A pattern emerges that maps clearly onto a type structure, or a client describes their inner experience in a way that unlocks type-level understanding. Becca uses this framework actively and explicitly, weaving it through individual work, couples sessions, and groups.
In individual therapy, understanding your type helps explain the recurring patterns: why you keep responding to the same triggers the same way, what the fear underneath a coping strategy actually is, and what growth looks like from where you are, not from some generic model of health.
In couples work, the Enneagram is particularly powerful for understanding why two people who love each other can consistently make each other feel unseen. Different types carry radically different core fears and different ways of showing love, and understanding that can turn chronic conflict into genuine curiosity.
Common Questions
No. In the Narrative Enneagram tradition, your type is discovered through the work itself, by listening to panel interviews with each type and noticing what resonates, rather than through a typing test. We'll explore it together.
The Narrative Enneagram is a specific lineage within Enneagram work that emphasizes first-person accounts from people of each type and focuses on the lived experience of the type rather than behavioral descriptions or test scores.
Yes. Couples work using the Enneagram is particularly powerful. Understanding how different types approach conflict, intimacy, and communication can shift dynamics that felt stuck for years.
The Enneagram is a framework, not a clinical modality. The therapy itself uses evidence-based approaches (EMDR, somatic work, psychodynamic methods) informed by the Enneagram lens. It's most useful as a way of organizing and deepening other therapeutic work.
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