What is Enneagram Counseling?

Maybe you've heard of the Enneagram personality system and played around with discovering your type. Maybe you've found it to be incredibly helpful in discovering parts of your personality that were previously hidden from you (but maybe not to others!). Or maybe you've never heard of it.

Have you ever heard of the Enneagram being used formally as a growth tool in counseling? A lot of therapists know and like the Enneagram, and some apply it kind of haphazardly in counseling sessions to increase client insight and self-awareness. While this approach can be helpful, it can also feel like the counselor and client are wandering around together without much direction or specific goals for growth. But starting in January 2026, Deep Waters Counseling is piloting a new type of counseling, one that is formally apprised and structured by the Enneagram personality system.

Enneagram counseling offered at Deep Waters has a specific protocol and a time-limited approach. Starting with helping you discover your type and subtype, your counselor will then use concepts from the Enneagram to help you identify factors in your life that are causing suffering and "stuckness." Once these factors are identified, your counselor will collaborate with you to build a treatment plan for your own healing and growth. This treatment plan includes both using the Enneagram as a map to explain your behavioral tendencies, emotional responses and fixed beliefs AND as a window into what growth looks like specifically for your personality type. The beauty of Enneagram counseling is that many different counseling techniques and interventions can be integrated into your treatment plan, attuned beautifully to who you are and who you want to become.

If this type of counseling sounds intriguing, please reach out to our office today and find out more. We're so excited to partner with clients in this new way and show how the Enneagram can be a powerful, life changing approach to healing.