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Stronghold Assessment

You've taken
the tests.
This is different.

Other tests tell you
What personality type you are
How you communicate
What your strengths are
Stronghold tells you
Why you keep repeating the same patterns
Where those patterns started
Exactly what to do about them
This is for you if
You've taken the Enneagram, MBTI, or StrengthsFinder and thought "okay but now what?"
You keep hitting the same wall in your relationships no matter how hard you try
You feel stuck but can't explain why and the generic advice is not working
You want to understand yourself the way a great coach or pastor would see you
You are ready for results that actually go somewhere
130+
Patterns and traits measured
17
Areas of your life assessed
5x
Deeper than a personality test
1
Assessment instead of five
How It Works

Results this deep deserve someone to walk through them with you.

The Stronghold Assessment is taken through a certified practitioner. Not because the results are complicated — but because the most valuable thing about this report is what happens when someone trained to use it sits with you and shows you what they see.

01
Find a certified practitioner

Browse the directory below and connect with a certified Stronghold coach, pastor, or counselor in your area or online. Every practitioner in the directory is credentialed and trained on scope of practice.

02
Complete the assessment

Your practitioner sends you access. You complete 350 to 450 adaptive questions across 11 steps. The assessment responds to your answers as you go — no two assessments look exactly the same.

03
Review your results together

Your practitioner reviews your Clarity Report before your session. Then you go through it together — the patterns named, the wound mapped, the starting point identified. That conversation is where the real work begins.

Sample Report

What your Clarity Report actually shows you.

The tabs on the right show three sections from a real report. Each one tells a different part of the same story — the pattern, where it lives in your relationships, and exactly where a trained practitioner knows to begin.

This is not a list of traits. It is a scored map of the architecture underneath the behavior you have been trying to change.

The couples panel shows what happens when two people's patterns are analyzed together — before they ever sit in the same room.

Clarity Report Preview Sample Data
How you respond under pressure
Fawn Response74 — High
Suppressed Anger71 — High
Who you believe you are
Identity Stability21 — Low
Performance Identity84 — High
Where it started
Father Wound87 — High
Coaching Start Point
He keeps the peace because conflict feels like abandonment. That is not a communication problem. That is a wound. Identity work before anything relational will shift.
How you attach
Anxious Attachment79 — High
Avoidant Attachment22 — Low
How you manage conflict and boundaries
Boundary Health18 — Low
Conflict Escalation67 — High
Codependency Depth62 — High
Spiritual health
God Image Distortion58 — Moderate
What the Practitioner Sees
His anxious attachment and low boundary health are working together to keep him in cycles he cannot break on his own. The God Image distortion is also shaping how he receives grace — and whether he believes change is actually possible for him.
Conflict pattern — where they collide
Flooding Composite
Partner A — 81
Partner B — 34

Partner A floods emotionally and shuts down. Partner B escalates trying to reconnect. This is the cycle — one pursues harder as the other pulls further away.

Attachment intersection
Partner A — Anxious Attachment79
Partner B — Avoidant Attachment68
Where to Begin — Couples Session 1
Name the cycle before addressing the conflict

The specific fight does not matter yet. The pursuer/withdrawer dynamic is running every argument they have. Once they can both see the pattern operating in real time, the individual conflicts become workable.

Honest Comparison

Five tools everyone knows.
Here is what none of them do.

This comparison is accurate. DiSC wins on behavioral style. CliftonStrengths wins on workplace strengths. The Enneagram wins on self-awareness depth. The Gottman Method wins on couples conflict research. Every checkmark they have is genuine. And none of them go where Stronghold goes.

What it measures
All-in-oneStronghold
▲ Most PopularDiSC
▲ Top TierCliftonStrengths
▲ TrendingEnneagram
EstablishedMBTI
CouplesGottman Method
■  Personality & Behavioral Style
Personality type or behavioral style~
Stress behavior — how you respond when pressure hits~~
Workplace strengths and team performance~~
■  Couples & Relational Patterns
Couples conflict dynamics — what drives the cycle~
Attachment style — anxious, avoidant, disorganized~~
Two profiles analyzed together — Intersection Map
■  Emotional Health
Survival response — fight, freeze, fawn, flight~
Clinical screeners — depression, anxiety, trauma built in
■  Spiritual Health
Spiritual health — God image, faith depth, church hurt
Biblical identity gap — who God says vs. who you believe you are
■  Wound History
Father wound and childhood origin mapping~
Shame structure and identity wound~
■  Coaching Process
Specific prioritized coaching start point identified~~
Measurable re-assessment at 90 days — what actually changed~
Stronghold — covered
Other tool — covered well
~ Partial coverage
Not covered

DiSC and CliftonStrengths genuinely win on workplace performance — that checkmark is earned. The Gottman Method genuinely wins on couples conflict research. The Enneagram is one of the most powerful self-awareness tools available. None of them map wound history, spiritual health, survival response, or clinical risk. That is not a gap they missed. It is a different category of work entirely — and that is where Stronghold lives.

Get Started

Request a certified Stronghold practitioner.

Tell us a little about your situation. We will connect you with a trained practitioner who is the right fit — coach, pastor, or counselor — based on what you are dealing with.

For Individuals and Couples

Take the assessment through a certified practitioner. Your results go deep. Having someone trained to walk through them with you makes the difference between information and actual change.

Request a Practitioner
For Coaches, Pastors and Counselors

Get certified to use Stronghold with your clients. Be listed in the practitioner directory. Every certified practitioner completes the full assessment themselves before administering it to anyone else.

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We respond within one business day. Your information is never shared or sold.

"A domesticated man is fatherlessness.
Lions do not bow."

Most men were never shown how to lead themselves. They gave their ground away to fear, to shame, to patterns inherited from fathers who did not know either. This assessment finds where that happened. That is where the real work begins.

Dr. Hines Inc. · Broken Arrow, Oklahoma

Two Ways In

Take it through a practitioner. Or become one.

For Individuals
I want to understand myself.

Connect with a certified practitioner, complete the assessment, and go through your results in a session built around your actual data — not generic coaching.

  • Find a certified practitioner in the directory above
  • Complete the adaptive assessment when your practitioner sends access
  • Receive your full Clarity Report with 130+ scored patterns
  • Go through your results in a dedicated report review session
  • Continue into a full coaching engagement if you choose
Find a Practitioner
For Coaches, Pastors and Counselors
I want to give this to my clients.

Get certified, be listed in the directory, and give every client a complete assessment picture before your first real session together.

  • Complete the full assessment yourself first — you experience it before you administer it
  • Certification training on scope of practice and how to use the results
  • CRM access to manage clients and send assessments
  • Macy AI for session planning and coaching intelligence
  • Listed in the Stronghold practitioner directory
Get Certified
Get Started

Finally know
what is going on.

One assessment. 130 patterns mapped. A certified practitioner to walk through it with you.