Modern Mind Alchemy · est. 2020
The Practitioner
Marina
Pirkle
Clinical hypnotherapist, shamanic practitioner, and the woman behind Modern Mind Alchemy — a practice born from lived experience.
Clinical hypnotherapist, shamanic practitioner, and the woman behind Modern Mind Alchemy — a practice born from lived experience.
Clinical Hypnotherapist · Shamanic Healer · Empowerment Coach · Grief Recovery Specialist.
Marina Pirkle is a Forbes-featured clinical hypnotherapist, shamanic healer, and empowerment coach whose work lives at the precise intersection of neuroscience and ceremony. As the founder of Modern Mind Alchemy — where science meets the sacred — she has built one of the most credentialed and distinctive healing practices in the country: rigorously clinical, deeply soul-led, and forged entirely from lived experience.
Trained under the foremost hypnotherapy educators in the world, recognized by Forbes, American Express, and Auberge Resorts Collection, and educated by shamanic teachers across four continents, Marina brings something the wellness world rarely finds in one practitioner: the science to explain transformation, and the sacred lineage to actually deliver it.
Marina trained at the Hypnotherapy Training Institute under Randall Churchill — widely regarded as one of the finest hypnotherapy educators alive — and Cheryl Canfield, whose work on profound healing has shaped the field for decades. Her clinical foundation is one of the most respected in the country.
She is a Forbes-featured practitioner, recognized in their landmark coverage of the rise of spiritual wellness. She holds the distinction of American Express Luminary Fellow, named among Amex's top recommended wellness experiences globally. And she serves as a trusted wellness partner to Auberge Resorts Collection — one of the world's most celebrated luxury hospitality brands — bringing her methodology to their guests at Bishop's Lodge in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Marina didn't arrive at this work through a curriculum. She arrived through life.
At fifteen, she became the primary caregiver for her father after his cancer diagnosis — a role that was supposed to last six months and lasted more than five years. During that time, she became quietly obsessed with one question: is there another way to heal? That question led her to Costa Rica, to shamanic healers, to the early discovery that the body and the mind are in constant, profound conversation — and that conversation can be redirected.
Her father lived. Five years longer than medicine predicted. And when he passed, Marina carried his legacy forward in the only way that felt true: she went deeper.
Loss visited her again with the sudden death of her beloved sister, Genevieve — the person she had raised, loved, and built a life alongside. That grief became a crucible. From it, Marina emerged as a Certified Grief Recovery Specialist and one of the most compassionate practitioners in the field. She doesn't counsel grief from a textbook. She has walked through it barefoot, in the dark, and found the other side.
She speaks of both her father and Genevieve with the quiet certainty of someone whose pain was metabolized into purpose — not performed, not bypassed, but alchemized. It is the most literal expression of everything her practice stands for.
What began in Costa Rica became a global education. Marina has studied with shamanic healers and spiritual teachers across:
This is not spiritual tourism. It is scholarship — rigorous, embodied, and built on the kind of devotion that can only come from someone who already knows, at the bone level, that this work is real.
Marina returned from these travels carrying lineages, practices, and hard-won wisdom that now form the shamanic backbone of everything she offers clinically. The result is a practitioner who can speak fluently in the language of neuroscience and walk a client straight into the sacred — without ever breaking stride.
At the center of Marina's work is a truth modern science is only now catching up to: the mind and the body are not separate systems. They are in constant, bidirectional dialogue — and the subconscious mind is running the show.
Most of the patterns that keep people stuck — the anxiety, the loops, the relationships that repeat, the behaviors they can't explain — are not character flaws. They are subconscious programs, written in childhood, reinforced by experience, and operating entirely beneath conscious awareness. The body holds what the mind won't face. The nervous system encodes what the heart couldn't process at the time.
Marina's clinical work targets this directly. Through hypnotherapy, she accesses the subconscious and rewrites limiting programs at the root. Through shamanic practice, she addresses what lives even deeper: the soul-level contracts, the ancestral patterns, the energetic residue that keeps people anchored to a version of themselves they've long outgrown.
The mind-body connection isn't a concept in her practice. It is the methodology.
Marina's work has reached audiences well beyond the treatment room:
Modern Mind Alchemy was founded in 2020 on a single conviction: that freedom is not a concept — it is an actual, lived reality available to anyone willing to do the work.
Unblock the past. Unlock the future. Live life in flow.
Marina's methodology moves through three layers simultaneously:
Sessions are entirely bespoke. Marina reads each client the way a shaman reads the land — with full presence, deep respect, and a commitment to finding the precise entry point where transformation becomes inevitable.
She works one-on-one, with corporate groups, and through immersive retreats in sacred locations. Based in Austin, Texas. Available virtually worldwide.
Marina's work sits in a rare space: the clinical rigor of modern hypnotherapy and the accessible, science-meets-soul translation that the best of the wellness world has produced — while remaining entirely and unmistakably her own.
She does not ask clients to choose between evidence-based practice and spiritual experience. In her work, they are the same thing: two doorways into the same room.
Her core conviction, the one she returns to again and again:
You are as free as you wish to be. Marina Pirkle
Not a platitude. A clinical observation. A spiritual truth. An invitation.
My work is my purpose, and I care deeply for every soul I am able to guide. — Marina Pirkle
Reach out. No pressure, no script — just a real conversation about what you're moving through and whether this work is the right fit for where you are.