Enneagram Typing Interviews for Professional Helpers
I hold so much enthusiasm for the Enneagram. If you are familiar with the Enneagram, you know it’s a powerful tool for relating to others. Often described as a personality test, the Enneagram is so much more! It serves as a roadmap for your inner thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, as well as a tool for how to best relate to others. Do you want enhanced awareness of why we do what we do? Enter the Enneagram! Do you want to feel closer, attuned, and more authentic with others? The Enneagram can help! Do you have an Enneagram type in your life who retreats from emotion, discover some ideas for how to best communicate! Do you have a Type in your life who wants to do things ‘the right way,’ here’s how you approach a task together! The Enneagram has been around for a long time, although it’s gained popularity because of the insight it provides within workplace dynamics, interpersonal relationships, and now: money!
My Enneagram Evolution
I first engaged in an Enneagram training in 2012, where it left a profound impression on me because it gave language to my experience personally and professionally within the world. Then I experienced it again as part of pre-marital counseling with my spouse of almost 10 years (and counting). The Enneagram became a regular tool in my mental health private practice with clients struggling with low self-worth, perfectionism, and workaholism.
But it didn’t stop there.
In 2019 I began using the Enneagram with colleagues in my consultation role to help them recover from burnout within our field. In 2020, I wrote my first Amazon #1 Best-seller Perfectioneur: Moving from Workaholic to Well-balanced, that called out risks for certain personality types (I’m looking at you Enneagram Type Twos and Threes) to struggle with work-life harmony. In 2022 I leaned into Enneagram conversations with colleagues in peer consultation groups.
In 2023, I saw an intersection of Enneagram and money behaviors as a Certified Financial Therapist, crafting a blog that would be the origin story of our Amazon #1 Best Seller Your Enneagram and Money, which published in January 2025. In March 2025, I crafted and taught an elective on The Enneagram in Therapy for Master’s counseling students at the University of Denver and presented the same content at the Colorado Counseling Association’s Annual Conference to a standing-room-only crowd in August 2025. The Enneagram fascinates many of us as therapists and helping professionals, and for lots of valid reasons!
From 2023 to now, I continue to bring in aspects of the Enneagram into healing retreats with therapists. And at the conclusion of 2025, I successfully completed an Enneagram Certification Program with Milton Stewart, MBA of Kaizen Coaching, Consulting & Community and incoming president of the International Enneagram Association.
Why the Enneagram?
I believe everyone should know about the Enneagram. It’s a tool of self-discovery, self-reflection, and growth. It gives language to our core motivations, the beliefs deep down that drive our behaviors. Why wouldn’t we want to better understand that part of ourselves?
The Enneagram is for you if:
-You want to keep growing and evolving personally and professionally
-You are seeking clarity on your strengths
-You are seeking insight into your challenges or growth edges
-You want a tool for connecting authentically with yourself and others
-You want insight into how to build rapport and work with diverse clients
-You want intentionality in how you approach client goals and communication
There are tons of tests and quizzes out there to help you discover your Type, however they are only approximately 66% effective. What if you are in fact a Countertype, meaning you don’t show up like other folks in your type structure? That’s where a Typing Interview can help!
What’s an Enneagram Typing Interview?
A typing interview is a 60 minute meeting with a trained Enneagram professional where you are invited to reflect on a series of questions to help you narrow down your possible Enneagram type. Although the Nine Types are most well-known, did you know there are actually 27 types when you take into account instincts and subtypes? That’s a big difference!
What you can expect in a Typing interview with me as a consultant and mental health professional (although this is not therapy and does not replace therapy) is a supportive, safe place with open questions to help you discover your type structure possibilities. You’ll also get resources and reading recommendations on your type, including relevant
-YouTube links
-Articles to explore
-Books to read
Why work with me? As a trained mental health therapist, Certified Financial Therapist, and Certified Enneagram professional, you get the best of three worlds: a safe space to show up, clarity on your money behaviors, and the experience of purposeful questions to support your self-discovery journey. An Enneagram Typing Interview does not replace therapy with a trained professional, and this meeting and content shared are for educational purposes only.
The investment for this supportive interview is $90 for a 50-55 minute hour. Are you craving clarity or language for why certain things are a struggle? Do you want to embrace your strengths and lean into that next level of growth? Are you ready to explore how the Enneagram can create meaningful change in your personal and professional identities?
Schedule a 60 minute Enneagram Typing Interview with me here.
““Many clinicians casually use personality tests to inform their work without a deep understanding of the model’s impacts and limitations. Khara’s knowledge and clinical insight bring life to the frame, making it useful, accessible, and insightful. We’re lucky to have her in the field.””
Suggested Enneagram Books:
The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery by Ian Morgan Cron and Suzanne Stabile
The Path Between Us: An Enneagram Journey to Relationships by Suzanne Stabile
The Complete Enneagram by Beatrice Chestnut
The Enneagram Guide to Waking Up by Beatrice Chestnut and Uranio Paes
Enneagram in Real Life by Stephanie Barron Hall
Leadership by the Number by Jon E. Singletary
Your Enneagram and Money by Khara Croswaite Brindle and Hannah DeGroot
Your Enneagram and Money Workbook by Khara Croswaite Brindle and Hannah DeGroot
“OMG! I did an enneagram interview with Khara and it was life-changing. In my community and home life, I have always felt as though I am an alien. I am not an alien , with an Enneagram Type 8 structure. I am enough and by that I mean I am not too much. My results rang so true, that I walked away with a new burst of energy and trust in myself. Find your true self and talk to Khara!! ”
““I had the pleasure of an Enneagram Typing Interview with Khara and it was a deeply meaningful and insightful experience. Khara guided the process with warmth, ease, and precision, helping me better understand my patterns, strengths, and growth edges in a way that felt grounding, affirming, and energizing.
What impacted me most was seeing how powerfully the Enneagram could enhance my self-awareness and clinical work. Understanding the Enneagram offers a compassionate lens for understanding motivation, coping, and relational patterns - tools that can truly deepen how we show up with clients. Khara brings wisdom, clarity, and genuine care to this work. I highly recommend Khara Croswaite Brindle to anyone wanting a richer self-understanding and practical insight that can expand how they support others.” ”
Your Enneagram and Money (2025), #1 Amazon Bestseller
In this groundbreaking book, Khara Croswaite Brindle and Hannah DeGroot explore how the Enneagram informs money beliefs and behaviors as they relate to your relationship with money. Broken up into three parts, they begin with looking at money challenges for underearners and professionals. Next, they look at each of the nine Enneagram types as they relate to relational and individual challenges with money. Finally, they provide simple tools for increasing money flow in your personal and professional life from the lens of financial therapy. This is the definitive book on the intersection between the Enneagram and money.
