A 12-month journey into understanding yourself—and learning to understand others more deeply.

Learn the model. Experience the model. Practice the model. Become a CounSouler.

Have you ever wondered why you are the way you are?

Why certain things affect you so deeply while someone else seems completely unbothered?

Why you keep falling into the same patterns—even when you know they're no longer helping?

Why relationships can bring out completely different versions of you?

Or why two people can experience the same situation and walk away with entirely different stories about what happened?

CounSouling® begins with curiosity about the person underneath the pattern.

At the center of the CounSouling approach is the Enneagram—a powerful framework for understanding the different ways we learn to organize attention, emotion, motivation, behavior, and relationships.

Alongside the Enneagram, we draw from Internal Family Systems (IFS) and parts work to become curious about the different parts of ourselves that developed to protect, manage, carry, or contain our experiences.

But in CounSouling, knowing your type—or naming your parts—is only the beginning.

We want to understand:

How did you become who you became?

What did your way of being help you navigate, protect, preserve, or secure?

What parts of yourself became easier to express—and what parts became harder to access?

And what becomes possible when more of you is allowed to belong?

We'll start at the beginning.

You don't need to know anything about the Enneagram or IFS before you arrive.

You'll learn the nine Enneagram patterns and begin recognizing the different ways people experience themselves, their relationships, and the world around them.

Then we'll go deeper.

Rather than simply learning what each type does, we'll become curious about why the pattern makes sense.

We'll explore the Enneagram alongside IFS and parts work, attachment, childhood development, fragmentation, the nervous system, mindbody processes, relationships, and the ongoing process of integration.

Together, we'll explore how experiences shape us—and how, in the process of adapting to our environments and maintaining connection, safety, and belonging, parts of our authentic expression can become hidden, protected, suppressed, or difficult to access.

Using an IFS-informed lens, we'll also become curious about the protective parts that emerged to help us navigate those experiences—not as problems to eliminate, but as parts of an internal system that developed for meaningful reasons.

CounSouling isn't about getting rid of the person you became.

It's about understanding that person deeply enough that more of you can emerge.

And you won't just study the model.

You'll experience it through your own story.

You'll become curious about your own Enneagram pattern.

You'll explore the experiences that shaped you.

You'll use IFS-informed parts work to meet the protective parts that have worked hard on your behalf—and become curious about what they may be protecting.

You'll notice what happens in your body when certain emotions, needs, experiences, or expressions don't feel safe.

You'll become curious about the parts of yourself that may have become hidden, exiled, protected, or difficult to access along the way.

And you'll begin experimenting with what it means to reclaim and integrate more of who you are.

Because before we can sit with another person's adaptation with curiosity, we need to become curious about our own.

Then you'll bring it into the therapy room.

The first nine months of the CounSouler Training are devoted to learning and experiencing the model.

The final three months are devoted to practicing it.

You'll begin applying the CounSouling lens with your own clients through supported clinical practice, case conceptualization, consultation, reflection, and integration assignments.

You'll learn to draw from the Enneagram, IFS-informed parts work, developmental and attachment perspectives, and mindbody awareness while continuing to see the whole person rather than reducing them to any single theory, diagnosis, type, or part.

You'll have opportunities to bring real clinical questions into consultation and demonstrate your ability to use the model thoughtfully, ethically, and with humility.

Because a CounSouler isn't someone who looks at another person and thinks:

“I know what type you are.”

A CounSouler wonders:

“I wonder how you learned to experience the world this way.”

“I wonder what this pattern has been protecting.”

“I wonder what parts of you have been working hard to keep you safe.”

“I wonder what hasn't felt safe enough to be expressed.”

And eventually:

“I wonder what might become possible if more of you could belong.”

That's the difference.

You don't need to be an Enneagram or IFS expert.

You may already know your Enneagram type and have spent years studying personality and parts work.

You may have taken an online Enneagram test once.

Or you may be encountering the Enneagram or IFS for the very first time.

You're welcome here.

We'll build the foundation together and then move beyond simply knowing types or identifying parts toward understanding the human beings who developed them.

Over twelve months, you'll learn the CounSouling® model, experience it through your own development, explore adaptation, parts, fragmentation, mindbody processes, reclamation, and integration, and receive support as you begin applying the model in your clinical work.

Because becoming a CounSouler isn't just about learning another therapeutic framework.

It's about learning another way of seeing people—including yourself.

Learn the model.

Experience the model.

Practice the model.

Become a CounSouler.