ENNEAGRAM INTENSIVES FOR HIGH-ACHIEVING MOTHERS

You’ve already optimized your way into a high-achieving life.
Now you just want to be free inside it.

I’m here to help you find your way back home to yourself.

A four-hour, 1:1 Enneagram intensive for the high-achieving mother who has read the books and done the therapy, and still feels like a stranger in a life that looks right from the outside. Led by an Enneagram 2 and licensed therapist (LMFT, PMH-C), for women who are done saving self-help posts and ready for clinical depth that gets to the root.

For the woman who’s ready to put the over-functioning down and be guided home. By application, a few spaces each month.

Licensed therapist (LMFT, PMH-C) · Certified Enneagram Consultant, Chestnut-Paes · 14+ years in practice · Featured in Authority Magazine

“I got more out of my four hours with Emily than I had from years.” L.R.

Why the Enneagram

If optimizing built the cage, knowing yourself is the way out.

Most personality tools hand you a label and leave you there. The Enneagram is different. It is a map of the exact strategy you built to be loved, and the exact way you abandon yourself under pressure. It does in one clear picture what years of books kept circling: it shows you why you do what you do, so you can stop performing it. That is the fastest route i know from insight to real change.

001 · Who This Is For

Not every high-achieving woman
actually loves her life.

If you can check these off, you’ll know you want to:

  • you’re the one everyone leans on, and you can’t remember the last time you leaned.
  • you’ve hit every goal you set, and each one felt like enough for about a week.
  • you look fine. you are not fine. and you’ve gotten expert at the difference.
  • your worth still rises and falls with what you got done today.
  • you love the life you built, and quietly wonder where you went inside it.
  • you’re not afraid of the work. you’re afraid of who you’ll meet when you finally stop performing.
If even a few of these are yours, you already have your answer.
002 · What Changes

You don’t need to become someone new.
You need to come back to yourself.

The work doesn’t change who you are. It returns you to her.

  • Your nervous system exhales, even on the hard days.
  • You catch the pattern in the middle of it, not three days later in your journal.
  • Your “no” stops requiring an explanation.
  • The version of you that was performing finally rests.
  • Your marriage gets harder for a season, then honest.
  • You become recognizable to yourself again.

This is the recognition you’ve been having for years. Now it has a method.

003 · The Framework

Four stages.
One direction.

Most personal growth content stops at “know thyself.” That’s not enough. Pattern recognition without grief work just makes you a more articulate version of the woman you were before. These four stages are how I move clients from recognition to embodiment, without skipping the part underneath.

I

HALT

See the pattern as it’s happening, in real time, in your mothering. Your Enneagram type isn’t your personality, it’s the survival adaptation running the show.

II

OWN

Name what the pattern is costing you. Your marriage. Your nervous system. The version of mothering you actually wanted. Naming the cost is what makes change non-negotiable.

III

MEET

Go underneath the pattern to what it was protecting. The grief. The fear. The unmet need. The stage most work skips and the only stage that produces lasting change.

IV

EMERGE

Build the new structure from the inside out. Mother, partner, and live from the woman who’s underneath, not the adaptation that’s been performing as her.

This is the order. It only works in this order.
004 · The Distinctions
Depth without chaos.
Healing without victimhood.
Ambition without self-abandonment.
Relationships without performance.
005 · Work With Me

Four hours.
Six months of progress.

You have never solved a serious problem by giving it one distracted hour a week. You go in focused, with the right expert, until it is handled. This is that, for the pattern underneath everything.

A focused four-hour, 1:1 deep-dive for the woman who has done enough therapy to know patterns intellectually but hasn’t moved them in her body. We walk all four stages of COME HOME in a single, structured session. You leave with language, a map, and the felt sense of the next move.

An hour a week gives you thirty real minutes, then seven days to lose the thread. Four focused hours means we never stop right when it gets real. That is why this works.

Format
1-hr intake (1 wk prior) + 3-hr intensive
Includes
Pre-session intake
Delivery
National · Pittsburgh in-person
Investment
$2,500
Apply for an Intensive →

The most expensive option is another year of holding it all exactly like this.

Four hours. One map. Your whole pattern, finally named.
What's included
  • A private 60-minute intake call one week prior, so we begin deep instead of from scratch
  • Your Enneagram type confirmed with a trained consultant, not a quiz
  • The focused three-hour intensive, walking all four stages of COME HOME
  • A personalized map and the exact language for your next move
  • A written follow-up you will return to long after we finish
What happens after you apply
  1. 01

    You send a short application. It takes a few minutes, and it is not a sales call.

  2. 02

    I read every application myself to make sure this is the right work for you. If it is not, I will tell you honestly.

  3. 03

    Once we confirm your fit, you choose your date and complete your intake questionnaire.

  4. 04

    We spend four focused hours together. You leave with a map, not just more insight.

  5. 05

    Integration. Your written follow-up keeps the shifts moving in your real life.

What it feels like in the room

Warm, direct, and unhurried. I name what I see, kindly, without dancing around it. There will be tender parts. That is where the pattern lives, and you will not meet them alone. Most women tell me the strangest thing is how safe it feels to finally stop performing.

What clients say
Working with Emily… I started to finally feel more free and more confident.
Client
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Why Enneagram?

  • Understand the "why" behind your patterns
    Finally break free from autopilot reactions and make conscious, aligned choices.

  • Transform your relationships
    Understand how different types communicate, handle stress, and show love

  • Stop people-pleasing and reclaim your identity
    Reconnect with who you are beyond your roles and obligations

  • Accelerate your personal growth
    No generic self-help advice here, making your growth feel less overwhelming and more sustainable

  • Gain therapeutic insight with real-world application
    I offer a unique blend of clinical and certified CP Professional expertise

Find the Right Way to Work Together

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Ideal for individuals seeking clarity, confidence, and a strong foundation for growth.

The Enneagram Blueprint

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COMING SOON

Ideal for individuals seeking definitive certainty, a solid foundation for growth, and expert guidance before diving deeper.

The Reclaimed Woman™ Intensive

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Ideal for women seeking identity-level integration, transformational clarity, and the courage to finally stop abandoning themselves for the sake of connection.

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