Enneagram therapy that starts with why
The Enneagram maps nine motivations, each with its own core fear, core longing and way of protecting itself. In therapy it helps explain why you do what you do, and what it would look like to loosen your grip a little. In Denver and online across Colorado.
- CliniciansBecca & Mark
- TrainingCertified Enneagram teachers
- WhereDenver & online
- First stepFree 15-minute call
Two people can behave identically for completely different reasons. The Enneagram can tell them apart.
A map of why you do things
Most personality frameworks describe behavior. The Enneagram describes the motivation underneath it.
That makes it useful in therapy, where understanding the root of a pattern matters more than labeling the pattern. Your type gives you a starting point: the fear you’re organized around, the strategy you reach for under stress, and the blind spots that come with it.
We work with type and subtype, meaning how your type shows up in self-preservation, social and one-to-one settings. We look at the automatic habits of thought and emotion each type falls into, and at what growth looks like from where you actually are, rather than from some generic model of health. Knowing your type is the starting line. The real work is using it to relate to yourself and other people differently.
How each type tends to show up in therapy
These are tendencies we see, not rules, and most people recognize a little of themselves in several types. The names come from the Narrative Enneagram tradition.
The lines show how each type tends to shift under stress and in moments of security. The nine points fall into three centers: body, heart and head.
The Protector
Often tests early whether the therapist can handle directness. Once it feels safe, letting someone see their softer side is where things start to move.
The Mediator
Easygoing and agreeable in session, sometimes about everything. Much of the work is noticing their own preferences, and their anger, and letting both count.
The Perfectionist
Arrives with a clear goal and a strict inner critic. Growth often begins with noticing the frustration tucked under all those shoulds.
The Giver
Talks easily about everyone else’s needs. The harder question is what they want when nobody needs anything from them.
The Performer
Wants to do therapy well and show progress. Slowing down enough to feel something, without turning it into a goal, is the real work.
The Romantic
At home with deep feeling and wary of being misunderstood. Therapy often helps them find what’s already good in an ordinary day.
The Observer
Tends to think things through before feeling them. Works best with room to take their time and keep some privacy.
The Loyal Skeptic
Watches closely at first for whether the therapist can be trusted. Later the focus often shifts to trusting their own judgment.
The Epicure
Brings energy, ideas and a quick reframe. The growth edge is staying with a painful feeling a little longer than is comfortable.
One map, three settings
The Enneagram runs through a lot of the work at Full Bloom. Sometimes it surfaces on its own, when a pattern clearly maps onto a type. Becca and Mark also use it actively and explicitly.
Individual therapy
Your type helps explain why you keep reacting to the same triggers in the same way, and what the fear under a coping strategy really is.
Individual therapy →Couples
Different types carry different core fears and different ways of showing love. Seeing that clearly can turn a chronic conflict into real curiosity.
Couples therapy →Groups and workshops
Becca and Mark are putting together Enneagram groups, where hearing other people describe their inner world is often how someone finally recognizes their own type. Want one for your team, school or community group? Ask us.
Ask about groups →Two certified Enneagram teachers
Becca Moravec is a Certified Narrative Enneagram Teacher and Practitioner through The Narrative Enneagram, a lineage that emphasizes first-person accounts of each type over test results and abstract theory. She weaves the Enneagram through individual and couples work, often alongside IFS and EMDR.
Mark Whitney is a Certified Enneagram Teacher. He uses the Enneagram alongside parts work to understand what drives automatic responses, and brings in EMDR or the Safe and Sound Protocol when the roots go deeper.
Becca sees clients in person in Denver and online, and Mark sees clients online anywhere in Colorado. Individual sessions with either of them are $200, and couples sessions are $215. We’re out of network with insurance and provide a superbill after each session.
There’s no set length for Enneagram therapy. Some people come for a few months to understand their type and the pattern that brought them in. Others use it as one thread in longer-term work on anxiety, people pleasing or a relationship.
“As a certified Enneagram teacher, I use the Enneagram alongside parts work to understand what drives your automatic responses.”
Mark Whitney, LPC, ACS · Read his bio →
Questions about Enneagram therapy
No. In the Narrative Enneagram tradition, your type is discovered through the work itself, by listening to people of each type describe their experience and noticing which one sounds like you, rather than through a typing test. We’ll explore it together.
The Narrative Enneagram is a specific lineage within Enneagram work. It 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, and couples often get the most out of it. Understanding how different types approach conflict, intimacy and communication can shift dynamics that have felt stuck for years.
The Enneagram is a framework, not a clinical modality. The therapy itself uses established approaches such as EMDR, parts work and somatic work, informed by the Enneagram lens. It’s most useful as a way of organizing and deepening other therapeutic work.
Yes. Both Becca and Mark see clients by secure video anywhere in Colorado, and Becca also sees clients in person at our Denver office.
Ask us. Becca and Mark are building out Enneagram groups and workshops. If you’d like one for a workplace team, a school staff or a community group, reach out with a little about your group and what you’re hoping for, and we’ll follow up. Get in touch →
Who to see for this
Bring your type, or don’t
You don’t need to know your type to start. Begin with a short conversation about what you’re hoping to understand.
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