Evidence-based subconscious work for anxiety, trauma, grief, and behavioral change. Not stage hypnosis. Real clinical practice — in-person in Austin and virtually worldwide.
Schedule a SessionMost people's understanding of hypnosis comes from stage performances — someone loses control, does something embarrassing, wakes up confused. Clinical hypnotherapy is something else entirely. It is an evidence-based therapeutic modality rooted in how the mind actually works: the subconscious holds the patterns, beliefs, and encoded responses that govern most of our daily experience, and clinical hypnotherapy creates direct access to that layer.
In a clinical session, you are fully aware and in control throughout. The hypnotic state is a naturally occurring state of focused relaxation — similar to what happens just before sleep, or deep in meditation. From that state, the subconscious becomes accessible in ways it doesn't during ordinary waking consciousness. Marina works with what becomes accessible to identify original encoding, shift patterns at the source, and support genuine integration.
Marina was featured in Forbes for her approach to modern wellness — specifically the way she holds the intersection of clinical rigor and spiritual depth. Forbes-level recognition in the hypnotherapy space is genuinely uncommon. It reflects a body of work, not a single session, and a standard of practice that goes beyond what most practitioners in this field bring.
She was also featured by American Express, another recognition that positioned her work within the broader landscape of serious, premium wellness practice rather than the self-help adjacent space where a lot of hypnotherapy marketing lives.
Marina begins with your history and intention. She doesn't rush toward the process — she takes time to understand what's actually present for you and shapes the session around that. Sessions run 75 minutes.
The hypnotherapy process itself involves Marina guiding you into a focused, relaxed state. From there, she works to access the subconscious material relevant to what you've come to work on. The depth and direction of the session emerge from what's present — Marina doesn't follow a protocol, she tracks what she actually finds.
Most clients leave the first session with some noticeable shift — a felt sense that something has changed, even if it takes a few days for the full integration to settle. For deeper or more complex work, Marina recommends a series. Her 30-Day Soul Alchemy Immersion — four sessions with a custom recording — provides the sustained container that some work requires.
Reach out to connect with Marina. She works with a limited number of 1:1 clients and takes time with each inquiry to ensure the work is a genuine fit.
Connect with Marina In-person in Austin, TX · Virtual sessions worldwide · $400 per sessionClinical hypnotherapy is an evidence-based therapeutic modality that uses a focused, relaxed state — similar to deep meditation — to access the subconscious mind. Unlike stage hypnosis, clinical hypnotherapy is conducted by trained practitioners for therapeutic purposes: changing behavioral patterns, resolving trauma, reducing anxiety, and working with deep subconscious beliefs that cognitive approaches alone don't reach. The client remains fully aware and in control throughout.
Marina trained under Randall Churchill at the Hypnotherapy Training Institute — one of the most rigorous clinical hypnotherapy programs in the country. She has been featured in Forbes and American Express for her work. She is also lineage-trained in shamanic healing from Mexico, Peru, and the American Southwest, which means she can hold both the clinical and the spiritual dimensions of a client's work simultaneously. That combination — evidence-based precision plus genuine spiritual depth — is rare.
Marina works with: anxiety and nervous system dysregulation, trauma integration, grief recovery, behavioral patterns (including smoking cessation), confidence and self-worth, money blocks and abundance patterns, relationship dynamics, sleep, and spiritual or existential inquiry. She also offers specialized sessions like past life regression, inner child healing, and shadow work.
Marina Pirkle at Modern Mind Alchemy is a Forbes-featured clinical hypnotherapist based in Austin, TX. She offers in-person sessions in Austin and virtual sessions for clients worldwide. Sessions are 75 minutes and priced at $400.