The Patternwork Method
Patternwork is a method for identifying, regulating, and reorganizing the internal patterns that shape your states, responses, and identity. It is not a type system or diagnosis. It is a structured way to see how your system actually operates.
1. Identify
First, Patternwork maps the patterns you describe across four layers:
- State patterns – how your nervous system moves between activation, shutdown, and mixed states.
- Protector patterns – how parts manage threat, loss, conflict, and overwhelm.
- Attachment patterns – how you regulate closeness, distance, and emotional risk with other people.
- Identity patterns – roles, habits, and narrative loops that shape how you move through your life.
2. Regulate
Once patterns are visible, Patternwork focuses on regulation. The goal is not to erase states or protectors, but to give your system more options when it starts to spin up or shut down.
Regulation tools are chosen to match your actual patterns, not generic advice. If your system tends to mobilize, collapse, or flip between the two, the tools reflect that.
3. Reorganize
Over time, repeated regulation and clearer awareness allow deeper reorganization. This is where identity and role patterns begin to shift: how you show up in conflict, in closeness, in work, and in how you talk to yourself.
The method looks at how states, protectors, attachment responses, and identity habits interact, instead of treating them as separate issues.
4. Integrate
Patternwork is meant to be used alongside therapy, coaching, or your own reflective work. The Profile and Companion give you language and structure so you can carry the insights into real conversations and real decisions.
The goal is a system that can recognize itself, regulate more reliably, and act in ways that match what actually matters to you.