No. This is an Enneagram-based relational assessment that can complement couples therapy or couples coaching but is not a therapeutic intervention.

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Q: 1. How much does it cost for a couples report?

If you already have individual Enneagram assessments, the Couples Report costs $110. If you don’t have the individual assessments yet, each person’s assessment is an additional $55. Session rates differ per coach but we can connect you to a practitioner so you can get a quote directly from them.

Q: 2. Do both partners need to complete the assessment?

Yes, unless you already know your type, trifix, and instinct stack (see below).

Q: 3. How do we start if we don’t know our Enneagram types yet?

You can begin from any starting point: Option 1: Neither partner has taken an Enneagram assessment You’ll both complete the Aephoria Enneagram Assessment. We then generate your Couples Report from your new profiles. Option 2: One partner already knows their type / trifix / instinct That partner provides their details; the other completes the assessment. We combine both into your Couples Report. Option 3: Both partners know their type, trifix, and instinct stack You can skip the assessments entirely. Provide your information and we build your Couples Report directly.

Q: 4. How much does the Aephoria Enneagram Self-Register cost?

Self-registered enneagram assessments cost $55.

Q: 6. How long does the assessment take?

On average, individuals can expect to spend between 15-25 minutes on the assessment.

Q: 8.Is this suitable for all couples

Yes. The assessment is designed for couples of all genders and sexual orientations – including straight and LGBTQ+ partners and is written in inclusive language. We avoid heteronormative assumptions about roles, gender, or what a “real” relationship should look like, so it can support you at any stage of relationship.

Q: 9. I am already an Aephoria Accredited Coach – is this available for my clients?

Yes. If you’re an Aephoria Accredited Coach, you can request this report directly from your Coach Portal. Simply select two people in the Assessments tab, click on “Add Pairs”, and request a Couples Report for them.

Q: 10. Where can I read more about the Couples Report and It’s Impact?

Read this article on Love Maps in our Resources Section: https://aephoriagroup.com/love-maps/ or watch this video on our Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYzAkCegS3k

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See the patterns you’re in; grow the relationship you want.

what is the aephoria enneagram couples report?

The Aephoria Enneagram Couples Report builds on our Aephoria Enneagram assessment, offering partners a clearer way to understand one another’s emotional rhythms, instinctual priorities, and relational patterns.
It translates two individual profiles into one integrated view of the relationship: how a couple connects, communicates, and repairs.

This report is designed for couples who want to strengthen understanding, reduce recurring conflict, and build a more conscious, grounded way of relating.

strengthen the relationship

Some couples come to this work because they already have a strong, loving connection and want to deepen it even further. They are curious about the subtler patterns that shape their intimacy, how their shared strengths can be amplified, and how to protect their bond through future seasons of change. The report helps them name what is working, grow their capacity for emotional honesty and vulnerability, and refine how they support one another’s needs and dreams. It offers shared language, deeper self-awareness, and practical practices to strengthen trust, increase intimacy, and keep the relationship vibrant and resilient over the long term.

address relationship challenges

Some couples are ready to understand why the same conflicts keep resurfacing, rediscover aliveness and spark, and make sense of mismatched communication styles and different needs and priorities. They are often looking to build more trust, emotional safety, and transparency, to slow down reactive moments, and to repair more cleanly and quickly. The report helps partners create a shared language for difficult conversations, deepen their connection, and strengthen their long-term partnership. The aim is not to “fix” the relationship, but to reveal what is happening between partners so that new possibilities, connection, and intimacy can flourish.

why should you accredit in aephoria for couples?

The Couples Report forms part of Aephoria’s Level 5 Enneagram for Couples Practitioner Accreditation, a specialist track for professionals who want to deepen their work with partners and intimate relationships. In this programme, practitioners learn how to interpret two profiles simultaneously (type, trifix, and instinct), identify and work with relational reactivity loops, and support couples in navigating conflict and repairing trust. You will develop the capacity to facilitate emotionally safe, honest conversations, and to integrate exercises and reflective prompts in a way that lands practically for both partners. This accreditation is ideal for coaches, therapists, and facilitators who want to bring rigorous Enneagram insight into the couple’s space in a grounded, compassionate, and skillful way. Existing Enneagram knowledge (Level 1 or equivalent) is required prior to joining this programme.

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Benefits for each partner

The Aephoria Couples Enneagram Report helps each partner see themselves more clearly and compassionately. It offers a practical, psychologically grounded view of your Enneagram type, instinctual stack and patterns under stress and growth, so you can better understand your reactions, needs and blind spots in the relationship. Rather than “labelling” you, it highlights your potential, showing how your strengths can be used more consciously and how your triggers can be worked with instead of acted out. This gives you language for your inner world and concrete suggestions for everyday behaviour change.

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Benefits for the relationship

The report reveals the dynamic “dance” between your two styles. It maps the predictable friction points and growth edges between you, while also naming the gifts and unique strengths of your pairing. You will see how your patterns reinforce one another, how you miss each other, and where you can actively create more safety, playfulness and intimacy. The report offers practical couple’s exercises for shifting from reactivity to responsiveness, so that conflict becomes a doorway to greater maturity rather than a repeating cycle of hurt.

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Benefits for the Couple’s Coach

For the couples coach, the Aephoria Couples Enneagram Report offers a clear, structured roadmap for your work. It integrates type, trifix and instinct data with developmental insights, giving you rich, nuanced material for formulation, session planning and homework. The report highlights key leverage points for coaching, suggesting tailored practices and conversations to support both partners and the relationship system as a whole. It saves you time in assessment, deepens your relational formulation and supports you in holding a compassionate, developmental frame for even the most challenging couples.

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what the report reveals

The Aephoria Enneagram Couples Report brings together three powerful lenses on personality: Enneagram type, trifix patterns (your strongest type in each centre of intelligence), and instinctual stacking (your dominant and blind instincts). Together, these create a precise picture of how each partner is wired and how your inner worlds meet in the space between you.

The report shows how these patterns shape your relational dynamic: where you naturally experience synergy, where you are likely to miss each other, and the deeper emotional logic beneath both. It gives you a shared language to understand reactions, needs, and the patterns that repeat in your relationship, helping each partner feel more seen and less blamed.

Within this framework, the report explores core motivations and how they drive closeness, distance, or misunderstanding; instinctual differences that shape daily life, intimacy, and emotional availability; and trifix patterns that influence pace, communication, and conflict styles. It highlights stress and defence patterns, relational habits around conflict, intimacy, family life and finances, and offers concrete repair pathways so you can reconnect more quickly.

Practical relational tools, growth edges for each partner, and reflective exercises make it ideal for couples therapy and coaching, empowering therapists and coaches to work with greater insight, sensitivity, and depth.

how it works

Both partners complete their individual Aephoria Enneagram Assessments.
Receive your individual Enneagram Report
Debrief individually with your Aephoria Accredited Coach
Receive your Aephoria Couples Enneagram Report
Joint coaching and feedback sessions with your Aephoria Accredited Coach.
Apply the exercises and frameworks to deepen and grow the relationship.

The process is simple, supportive, and grounded. Contact Aephoria if you would like to get in touch with an Aephoria Accredited Coach to book couples feedback or coaching sessions.

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frequently asked questions
about aephoria couples

1. How much does it cost for a couples report?

2. Do both partners need to complete the assessment?

3. How do we start if we don’t know our Enneagram types yet?

You can begin from any starting point:

Option 1: Neither partner has taken an Enneagram assessment
You’ll both complete the Aephoria Enneagram Assessment. We then generate your Couples Report from your new profiles.

Option 2: One partner already knows their type / trifix / instinct
That partner provides their details; the other completes the assessment. We combine both into your Couples Report.

Option 3: Both partners know their type, trifix, and instinct stack
You can skip the assessments entirely. Provide your information and we build your Couples Report directly.

4. How much does the Aephoria Enneagram Self-Register cost?

5. Is this therapy

6. How long does the assessment take?

7. Can we purchase the report without a session?

8.Is this suitable for all couples

9. I am already an Aephoria Accredited Coach – is this available for my clients?

10. Where can I read more about the Couples Report and It’s Impact?

our coaches love aephoria

Completing the Aephoria training has been transformative for me. The training has provided valuable practical tools and frameworks, including the Enneagram and Identity Maturity Framework, enhancing both my coaching skills and personal development.

The training continues to boost my confidence , and the team effectively models strategies for improving in my coaching work. The Aephoria training continues to be a highly enriching experience that is positively impacting both my professional and personal growth.

Mbuyiselo Yanta

The Aephoria assessment has had a powerful impact on coaching engagements thus far, opening clients to the idea of themselves on personal and leadership development journeys. It has been a great complement to 360 feedback and their own career aspirations.

I can't recommend the Aephoria and the Aephoria accreditation training enough, and the support from the people at Aephoria that comes along with them. I am grateful for their wisdom and inspiring offerings to the world of leadership development in organizations.

Todd Iarussi

The Aephoria assessment and accreditation has had a profound impact on my continued personal development, more importantly the manner in which I now am able to help people. It assisted me to understand the lens through which I make sense of

events as well as the strategy I formulated in order to feel safe in the world. Through the process I learnt that my way of being was limited and that it no longer served me. I discovered that I am much more than my enneagram type or maturation stage. This understanding is key to the impact I make for my clients.

Kugan Pillay