Articles for coaches and therapists
Recognising the Child: Your Enneagram Type 8 Adult Child
A Type 8 adult child is the last person anyone would flag as lacking confidence — they're blunt, certain, unbothered by confrontation. Why that strength can be standing in for a fear of ever being seen as soft, and what actually builds real confidence instead.
Recognising the Child: Your Enneagram Type 5 Adult Child
A Type 5 adult child rarely looks unsure of themselves — their self-sufficiency can look like a settled sense of self. Why that withdrawal can be a way of avoiding being caught short, and what actually builds trust that they'll have enough to meet a moment.
Recognising the Child: Your Enneagram Type 4 Adult Child
A Type 4 adult child's emotional depth can look like a settled sense of self. Why underneath it can sit a quiet, persistent sense that something's missing in them specifically, and what actually helps them believe they belong.
Recognising the Child: Your Enneagram Type 3 Adult Child
A Type 3 adult child rarely looks like someone lacking confidence — they're capable, driven, visibly successful. Why that competence can be the only version of themselves they've learned is safe to show, and what actually helps.
Recognising the Child: Your Enneagram Type 1 Adult Child
A Type 1 adult child's certainty about what's right can hide a far harsher inner critic than anyone else ever hears. Why a small mistake can carry outsized weight, and what actually helps confidence survive being wrong.
Recognising the Child: Your Enneagram Type 7 Adult Child
A Type 7 adult child rarely looks like someone lacking confidence — they're upbeat, quick-witted, and always moving toward the next plan. Why that forward motion can be a way of avoiding limitation and pain rather than genuine resilience, and what actually builds the real thing.
Recognising the Child: Your Enneagram Type 2 Adult Child
A Type 2 adult child rarely looks like someone lacking confidence — they're often the one giving before it's asked for. Why that generosity can be quietly conditional on being needed, and what actually helps it come from fullness instead.
Recognising the Child: Your Enneagram Type 6 Adult Child
A Type 6 adult child's confidence pattern rarely looks like a lack of confidence — it looks like caution or scepticism instead. Why that vigilance sits alongside a real difficulty trusting their own judgement, and what actually builds it.
Recognising the Child: Your Enneagram Type 9 Adult Child
The first in a nine-part series: a Type 9 adult child's confidence struggles are the easiest of all nine types to miss, because the pattern looks like contentment rather than a problem. What actually helps, and what to avoid.
When Can You Really Type a Child? The Enneagram and Age
Riso and Hudson locate type in early temperament but urge caution until self-report clears in the early twenties; the Narrative tradition is itself split, from "visible by seven" to David Daniels' more measured 10-15 range. Why confidently typing a young child is weak practice regardless, and what to do instead.
Why Adlerian Psychology Belongs on an Enneagram Reading List
Why we added Kishimi and Koga's two Adlerian psychology books to our Enneagram reading list, and what The Courage to Be Disliked adds to practitioner work on client change.
From Personality Types to Developmental Pathways: A More Scientific Conversation with the Enneagram
How Daniel Siegel's Patterns of Developmental Pathways framework gives coaches, counsellors and therapists a neurobiologically informed, term-for-term way to work with the nine patterns we already know.
The Enneagram Test Is Only the Beginning
Why the test itself is only step one — and how presentation, reports, and follow-up work make the real difference for clients.
Instinctual Subtypes Coaching: Going Beyond the Core Enneagram Type
How SP, SO, and SX instinctual drives shape 27 distinct subtypes, and how to bring that layer into a coaching session.
What a White-Label Enneagram Assessment Actually Looks Like for Your Clients
What "white-label" really means here, and why keeping the whole experience under your own brand matters for client trust.
The Enneagram for Therapists in the UK: What It Adds to Clinical Work
Why interest is growing among UK counsellors and coaches, and what to look for in a tool: data handling, consent, and clinical usefulness.
Why Our Enneagram Assessment Pricing Works for Practitioners (And Their Clients)
No subscriptions, full branding, and sensible per-token pricing — how our model was built around practitioners, not direct-to-consumer sales.
What Mental Health Professionals Get Right About the Enneagram — and What They're Missing
The scientific critique of the Enneagram is legitimate — and mental health professionals are still finding genuine clinical uses for it, including Daniel Siegel's 2024 framework.
The Enneagram as a Clinical Accelerator: Widening the Johari Window and Supporting the Climb Toward Self-Actualization
How the Enneagram widens a client's Johari Window blind spot and supports the climb toward Maslow's self-actualization — a clinical primer.
How Mental Health Practitioners Are Integrating the Enneagram Effectively in Their Practice
A practical look at how therapists and counsellors are integrating the Enneagram into client work — building insight, tailoring approach, staying ethical.