Bringing Your Quiz Results Into Coaching: What Each One Actually Opens Up
A quiz result on its own is a data point. What actually changes something is what a trained coach does with it once it's in the room. Below is one concrete technique tied to each of the seven frameworks — not "this quiz is useful for X," but the specific move a coach makes with it, and what that tends to look like in an actual session.
Attachment Style
A technique to know: the attachment-informed check-in — a coach naming the relational dynamic happening right now, in the session itself, instead of only discussing attachment as a topic out there in the client's life.
In the room: a client with an Anxious result goes quiet after being asked a direct question. Instead of moving on, the coach names it: "I noticed you went quiet just now — is that the pattern we talked about showing up here with me?" That single move does more than another ten minutes discussing attachment theory in the abstract, because the client feels the pattern happen in real time, with someone who can see it.
Core Wounds
A technique to know: working with the mask, not the wound directly. Bourbeau's model treats the protective behavior — fleeing, controlling, people-pleasing — as the actual entry point. A coach doesn't ask a client to simply stop the behavior; they ask the client to catch it happening and get curious about what it's protecting.
In the room: a client with a Betrayal wound insists on reviewing every detail of a plan before agreeing to it. Rather than labeling this "controlling," the coach asks: "what do you imagine would happen if you let this go unchecked?" The answer usually surfaces the wound directly, faster than asking about it head-on ever would.
Nervous System
A technique to know: a body check-in before content. Trauma-informed and somatic coaching practice both use this move — asking a client to name one physical sensation before diving into a heavy topic, as a fast way to check whether there's actually room for the conversation about to happen.
In the room: a client wants to go straight into a difficult family conflict. The coach first asks, "where do you notice that in your body right now?" If the answer is a tight chest and shallow breath, the coach slows the pace or grounds first — rather than pushing into content a narrowed nervous system isn't ready to process well.
Inner Parts (IFS)
A technique to know: a parts dialogue. Rather than just naming a part, an IFS-informed coach invites the client to speak directly as that part for a moment — a specific technique from the model itself, not just a label borrowed from it.
In the room: a client says "I always sabotage myself right before something good happens." The coach asks: "if that part of you could talk right now, what would it say it's afraid of?" The client, speaking as the part, often lands on something like "if I let this go well, I'll have more to lose" — a sentence that rarely surfaces from a direct question alone.
Archetypes
A technique to know: naming the gift and the shadow side by side, exactly as Pearson's own model pairs them — asking what the client's current archetype is protecting them from, not just what story they're living.
In the room: a client stuck in an over-identified Caregiver pattern names exhaustion as the presenting issue. The coach asks what the Caregiver role is protecting against — often landing on a fear of being seen as selfish — before asking what a bit of unclaimed Explorer energy might actually cost the client if they let it in.
Shadow
A technique to know: a trigger log as homework between sessions — tracking exactly who or what got under the client's skin that week, then bringing the log itself into the next session as material, rather than working from memory or generalization afterward.
In the room: a client brings in "my coworker who never stops talking about their achievements really got to me this week." Instead of validating or dismissing the irritation, the coach asks what that coworker has permission to do that the client doesn't yet give themselves — usually the more useful question than "why did that bother you?"
Love Language
A technique to know: translating one real, recent conflict through the framework, instead of discussing love languages abstractly.
In the room: a client mentions feeling unappreciated despite a partner "doing everything." The coach asks the client to describe one specific incident, then reframes it live: "it sounds like you needed to hear it, and they were showing you through doing it — same care, different language." That reframe, tied to one real moment, tends to land where the general concept alone doesn't.
Bringing This Into an Actual Session
If you've already taken one or more of these quizzes, the most useful thing to do with the result is bring it into your first coaching conversation directly, rather than treating it as a separate, standalone insight. Mention the result. Let it shape where the session starts.
Holistika's life & spiritual guidance coaching works directly with whatever these quizzes surface, using techniques like the ones above. For a more expanded route into the same material, the microdosing program is the other door in.
Ritshi Zenati, Speaker & Life Coach
Founder at Holistika Center.
Grounding for the techniques above: attachment-informed check-ins draw on Emotionally Focused Therapy practice (Sue Johnson); body check-ins draw on trauma-informed and somatic coaching practice; parts dialogue is a core Internal Family Systems technique (Richard Schwartz); the gift/shadow pairing comes directly from Carol Pearson's archetype model; trigger-log homework is standard practice in Jungian-informed coaching.
Haven't taken all seven yet? Start with the full quiz guide here.
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