Stronghold is one adaptive assessment that scores 274 measures of who your client really is: identity, attachment, the origin story, the nervous system, faith, and more. Get certified, and walk into the first session already holding the map.
One deep assessment: about an hour, pause and resume anytime. A full Clarity Report. Macy AI reads it with you.
People are drawn to you because you make them feel seen. You carry others naturally and often invisibly. You are often the most trusted person in the room. And the least known.
The Human OS: one score per area of lifeReal reports are clickable. Every score and every term opens into plain language. Try it, tap a score:
"Your coaching must start with a question nobody has asked you: what do YOU need? The answer will feel foreign. Stay with it."
Stop stitching together a screener, an attachment quiz, and a values worksheet. Get certified once and run the depth from a single platform built for your practice.
274 measures in one sitting, returned as a plain-language Clarity Report you can hand a client without a translation step.
An assistant that reads each client's results, drafts your session notes, and answers questions in your voice, never replacing your judgment.
Your practice platform and CRM at stronghold.coach: booking, client records, email, your own checkout page, Clarity Plans, the couples and founder modules, and report delivery, all in one place instead of five subscriptions. See what's inside →
Become a Certified Stronghold Practitioner and get listed in the directory clients search when they are looking for someone like you.
The practice platform and CRM included with every plan at stronghold.coach. Client records, bookings, email, your own checkout, Clarity Plans, and Macy. The whole practice in one login.
Her Relationships and Body domains are carrying the load. Start with the question nobody asks her: what does she need? Expect deflection to others' needs. That is the pattern, not resistance.
The demo is one morning. The platform is the whole practice:
One login instead of five subscriptions. The scheduler, the client records, the email tool, the checkout page, and the AI live in the same place your assessments do.
Click through the whole platform with a full fictional caseload. No login, no signup. Or see everything a plan includes →
Stronghold doesn't open with a quiz. It opens by listening. Before the first question is ever scored, a guided intake hears the story, rates the life, and checks for safety. So you start session one already knowing where it hurts.
Click or tap any slice to open what intake explores in that area. Illustrative wheel; every client rates all nine Wheel-of-Life areas during intake, before the scored assessment begins.
Everything lands in your session prep. By session one, the assessment isn't starting cold. And neither are you.
Real cards from the live intake. Your client taps whatever is true:
Every tap lands in your session prep before you ever meet. Clients can also add their own words.
Stronghold maps the whole person across six areas, written the way a good coach would say it. Never a clinical label. Every area ends in something concrete your client walks away with. Measures adapt to the person answering.
Self-awareness, emotional health, resilience, boundaries. The patterns a person keeps running and the ones running them.
What they get: a named personality archetype, an emotional-health map in plain language, and the pattern underneath it. The thing they've felt for years but never had words for.
See it in Renee's report →Communication, conflict, intimacy, trust, connection. And for couples, the exact collision pattern between two people.
What they get: their attachment, communication, and conflict styles plus their connection language. Side by side with their partner's, and the repair path for the loop they're stuck in.
See David & Sarah's couples report →Work style, purpose, leadership, occupational interests. A full career module inside the assessment, not an afterthought.
What they get: a career-fit read on three dimensions. Steward↔Builder, Structure↔Autonomy, Support↔Lead: plus where you find flow, the strengths you hide, and what your work is quietly costing you. Founder and leadership views for owners and teams.
See it in Marcus's founder report →Attachment, parenting, family of origin. The early story still shaping how a person shows up today.
What they get: a family-of-origin map that connects today's triggers to where they actually started. For most people, the first time anyone has ever drawn that line.
See it in a full report →Meaning, purpose, spiritual practices, beliefs. A real spiritual layer for practitioners who work there, invisible for those who don't.
What they get: a picture of where faith actually sits in their life. Depth, maturity, wounds, and how their view of God was shaped. In language that works in a church office or a coaching room.
See how it reads in a report →Body stewardship, health habits, money mindset. Plus quiet, validated wellbeing screens running in the background.
What they get: an honest read on money and body patterns. And nine validated wellbeing screens (mood, worry, stress, alcohol, and more) where the practitioner sees the flag and the client just sees a check-in.
See the wellbeing view →Generated from one sitting, drawn from 274 scored measures: plus validity and safety checks that stay with the practitioner. And every report is clickable. Any score or term opens into plain language, so clients understand what they're reading without a decoder.
Don't take our word for it. read a full sample report for every edition:
Fictional people, real structure. Every archetype, measure, and section is exactly what the platform produces. Depth your clients feel, language nobody flinches at.
Not a mockup: the real structure, from the sample individual report. Renee is fictional; everything else is exactly what the platform produces.
People are drawn to you because you make them feel seen. You carry others naturally and often invisibly. You are often the most trusted person in the room. And the least known.
Deep empathy, natural caretaker, creating safety for others, loyalty, genuine warmth.
You disappear inside other people's needs. You say yes when you mean no. You have given so much away that you are no longer sure who you are when nobody needs you.
Real reports are clickable. Every score and every term opens into plain language. Try it, tap a score:
"Your coaching must start with a question nobody has asked you: what do YOU need? The answer will feel foreign. Stay with it."
Everyone carries all four. King, Warrior, Seer, Healer. In a blend that's theirs alone. Stronghold measures your exact mix and how it interacts with your attachment, stress patterns, and EQ.
"While others are still discussing options, I've already moved."
Natural leaders: decisive, direct, driven to results. The strength is vision and momentum; the shadow is steamrolling people and dismissing emotion as weakness.
Read about the King →"If something's wrong, I'm already walking toward it."
Driven protectors: courage, loyalty, endurance. The strength is going first when it costs something; the shadow is fighting when the moment only needed presence.
Read about the Warrior →"I'd rather be right than fast."
Analytical thinkers: accuracy, quality, careful deliberation. The strength is depth and precision; the shadow is analysis paralysis and impossible standards.
Read about the Seer →"I know what everyone needs. Except me."
Loyal supporters: harmony, relationships, service. The strength is steadiness and care; the shadow is losing yourself in everyone else's needs.
Read about the Healer →Your blend resolves into one of twelve named types: the General, the Flame, the Compass, the Fortress… Meet all 12 types and find yours with a practitioner.
Stronghold is built on one conviction: the people you serve were made to stand. Not to shrink, not to perform, not to carry everything alone.
The work is finding the strength that is already in them, naming the pattern that keeps it caged, and handing both to someone equipped to walk with them. That is what the assessment measures. That is what you deliver.
Tell us about your practice and who you serve. Certification is a fit for coaches, counselors, and pastoral practitioners.
Take the full assessment yourself, then work through the training on reading the report, running the platform, and guiding the conversation. Finish the curriculum and you get a 30-minute one-on-one with Dr. Hines.
Send the assessment, get the Clarity Report, and walk into session one already knowing where the work is. Your listing goes live in the directory.
Pastoral counselors and Christian coaches who want rigor and a real spiritual layer, not one or the other.
Solo LPC, LMFT and LCSW practitioners tired of stitching four tools together for one intake.
Coaches who need depth beyond a personality quiz, including the founder and team layers.
Multi-practitioner practices and ministries who want everyone coaching on one shared platform.
Get the assessment directly and your Clarity Report is yours the moment you finish — every measure, every pattern, in plain language. And when you're ready to work what it shows you, a certified practitioner can pick up your results and start where the report leaves off. Find one below, or send us a note and we'll help you connect with the right one.
"I built Stronghold from nearly two decades of sitting across from people who were done living the pattern. I wanted the depth I could never get from one tool, said in language that never pathologizes the person in front of me. Now I am certifying the practitioners who want the same thing."
Coaches, counselors, pastoral counselors, and faith-integrated practitioners who want one deep, trustworthy assessment instead of stitching several tools together. You get certified to administer Stronghold, read the results, and use the practice platform with your clients.
Yes. Every certified practitioner completes the full Stronghold assessment first, so you know exactly what your clients experience and how to read every part of the report before you ever send it.
274 measures across 6 life domains, plus wellbeing check-ins and the couples, owner, and team modules: who you are, your strengths, how you connect, where you came from, and work and money and body and spirit. It covers identity, attachment, the nervous system, the origin story, control and boundary patterns, faith, and more, all in plain coaching language.
No. Stronghold is a screening and self-assessment tool that supports a practitioner's work. It does not diagnose or treat any condition and is not FDA-cleared. If a client is in crisis, refer to licensed care and call or text 988 in the U.S. for the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.
Yes. Certification includes the couples layer and the founder layer. The assessment adapts to each client, so a couple gets the collision map and a business owner gets the founder dashboard, from the same platform.
Most people take Stronghold with a certified practitioner, so the results are read by someone trained to use them. You can also buy it directly from Stronghold — same full assessment, run under our own house practice, with your Clarity Report delivered the moment you finish and the option to connect with a practitioner after.
Stronghold was built by a practitioner who takes faith seriously, and it works whether or not your clients share that faith. It includes a real spiritual layer that can be turned up or left quiet. Nobody gets preached at.
Get certified in the one assessment that shows you the whole person before the first session, and run it from a platform built for your practice.
Already certified? Find your listing in the directory.