Symbolic Identity Method™
The Original Diagnostic System by Michele Paull
A third path for adults who want clarity about who they are becoming.
Meet the Architect Behind SIM™
Shadow Work Studio is a prestige sanctuary for sovereign souls ready to meet themselves with honesty, creativity, and care.
This is not coaching. This is not therapy. This goes deeper.


You’ve found the threshold...
This isn’t coaching. It isn’t therapy either. Though we honor those paths, this work lives somewhere deeper. Here, ritual meets reflection. Meaning is shaped through symbol, story, and choice.
Rooted in counselling psychology, transpersonal psychology, and creative arts therapies, this approach weaves Jungian shadow inquiry with ritual and reality‑based practice. Every experience inside the Studio is crafted to help you meet your challenge with clarity and enact transformation in your own time.
Shadow Work Studio is a space where longing becomes language, and transformation begins with a single, chosen yes.
Before we go deeper, here’s what SIM actually is.


What is the Symbolic Identity Method?
The Symbolic Identity Method (SIM) is a third path for people who don’t need therapy and don’t want coaching. It uses symbolic patterning, developmental arcs, and asynchronous reflection to reveal the identity you’re actually inhabiting — not the one you think you are. SIM clarifies the roles, rhythms, and internal dynamics shaping your behavior, creativity, and relational presence. It gives regulated, self‑aware adults a structured way to understand who they are becoming and how to move forward with coherence.
For Creatives and Founders
SIM gives creatives a symbolic map of their identity during periods of reinvention — clarifying the role they’re inhabiting, the story they’re living, and the next evolution of their work.
For Therapists, Counsellors and Helpers
SIM helps therapists, counsellors, and helpers understand the identity they embody in the room — the symbolic role they take on, the patterns they carry, and the internal dynamics shaping their presence and regulation.
SIM Mapping — The Diagnostic Tier of the Method
SIM Mapping is the diagnostic tier of the Symbolic Identity Method — the place where we identify the identity posture you’re operating from, the distortion pattern shaping your behavior, and the emerging archetype strengthening beneath the surface.
This is not interpretation, coaching, or advice. It is a symbolic, developmental reading of your system that reveals the architecture beneath your patterns.
Mapping clarifies:
the world you’re orienting from
the realm you’re functioning in
the coherence strategy you’re using to stay intact
the structural qualities preparing to come online
For many people, Mapping is the first moment their inner landscape finally makes sense.




SIM — REGULATION & RHYTHM
Regulation & Rhythm is the body‑based wing of the Studio — a place to rebuild steadiness, restore internal pacing, and return to yourself through rhythm, structure, and physiological coherence.
Where SIM works symbolically and developmentally, Regulation & Rhythm works through the body’s natural timing systems. These programs help you re‑establish the daily rhythms that make identity work possible: eating, sleeping, moving, orienting, and recovering.
This wing is for people who don’t need therapy, but who feel out of sync — dysregulated, inconsistent, or disconnected from their own internal pacing. Here, we rebuild the foundation.