Integrative Trauma Practitioner, educator, and architect of The Roots & Rewire Method™.
Liz Oncel is an Integrative Trauma Practitioner, educator, and the architect of The Roots & Rewire Method™. She is the founder of Pattern Architecture, based in Chicago.
Over nearly a decade of practice, she trained in EMDR, Schema Therapy, the Gottman Method, Somatic Therapy, Intergenerational Trauma, and Self-Compassion research. Her observations across hundreds of cases produced the thesis that now underwrites Pattern Architecture: that understanding alone does not change patterns, and that leadership of the nervous system has to be built as a multiplicative architecture across four operating layers.
Her work sits at the intersection of research and practice. She draws on polyvagal theory (Porges, Dana), memory reconsolidation (Nader, Ecker), intergenerational trauma transmission (Yehuda, Wolynn), family systems (Bowen, Schützenberger), attachment repair (Johnson), and couples research (Gottman), integrated through a methodology she has refined across hundreds of cases.
She is a published author. Her public-facing writing appears weekly on Substack and is republished in Pattern Architecture’s Writing archive. She is currently at work on her first major book, Lead Your Nervous System: The Architecture of Becoming Unrecognizable to Your Old Patterns, forthcoming.
She lives in Chicago.
Liz Oncel is an Integrative Trauma Practitioner and educator. The work offered through Pattern Architecture and its Institute is educational and psychoeducational in nature. It is not psychotherapy, counseling, or treatment for mental health conditions. Participants are responsible for maintaining appropriate clinical care from licensed providers where applicable.