For founders and executives who have done the strategy work and still feel the ceiling. Coaching reaches the conscious mind. Hypnotherapy reaches the patterns underneath, where confidence, decision-making, and resilience actually live. Marina Pirkle works privately, one to one, in Austin and virtually worldwide.
Schedule a SessionMost high performers arrive having already exhausted the conscious approaches. The frameworks are in place. The advisors are good. The self-awareness is sharp enough to narrate the problem in real time. And the pattern holds anyway.
That is the tell. When you can see the dynamic clearly, name it, and still watch it run, the pattern is not living in the part of the mind you reason with. It is living a layer below, in the subconscious, where rehearsed responses fire before conscious thought catches up.
Hypnotherapy is built for that exact layer. It is not a softer version of coaching. It works where coaching cannot reach, on the conditioning that decides how you respond under pressure before you have a say in it.
Executive coaching changes what you do. It gives you better structures, cleaner decision frameworks, sharper strategy. That work is real and it has a ceiling, because it operates on the conscious mind.
Underneath the conscious mind is the subconscious, where confidence, self-image, risk tolerance, and the instinct to second-guess actually live. No amount of strategy rewrites a pattern that was set there years ago. You can outperform it for a while. You cannot out-think it permanently.
Marina works directly with that layer. The shifts her clients describe are not new information. They are a change in the default response, the thing that used to fire automatically that now does not. That is what makes the work hold after the session ends.
The dynamics that surface most often in clients operating at this level:
Most high performers run on sympathetic activation. The body treats every quarter, every raise, every board call as a threat to survive. It works, until the cost shows up in sleep, in health, in the inability to be present with the people who matter.
Marina's work includes nervous-system and somatic regulation, the part of the practice that teaches the body to downregulate on command rather than staying braced. This is not about lowering the drive. It is about removing the tax the drive has been quietly charging.
Clients describe the change as the same output with less internal friction. The standards stay. The performance stays. What leaves is the constant low-grade activation that used to run in the background and never fully switched off.
At a certain level the cost of a decision is not making it, it is the rumination before and the doubt after. The mind that built the career by examining everything turns that same scrutiny inward and never lets a call settle.
Hypnotherapy widens the space between the choice and the doubt. When the subconscious is not flooding every decision with old fear, clarity is not something you have to manufacture. It is what is left when the noise quiets.
Marina trained under Randall Churchill at the Hypnotherapy Training Institute, one of the more clinically serious programs in the field. She does not run scripts. She tracks the pattern that is actually driving the indecision and works with it at the level it lives.
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Marina's practice is private. Every session is one to one. There is no group format, no public client list, no testimonial that names anyone without explicit clearance. For clients whose profile requires discretion, that structure is the point, not an afterthought.
The work is clinically grounded and also soul-led. Marina is a clinical hypnotherapist and a hypnoshamanic healer, and for executives that depth shows up as precision rather than performance. Clients who expected something softer tend to be surprised by how directly the work lands.
Confidentiality is real and it is enforced. What is discussed stays between Marina and the client. For founders and executives who cannot afford to be seen working on this, the privacy is part of why the work is possible at all.
Marina takes a small number of new executive clients each quarter, in person in Austin or virtually worldwide. Reach out at +1-737-222-9195 with what is actually present, and she responds personally and in confidence.
Connect with MarinaExecutive coaching works on the conscious mind: strategy, structure, decision frameworks. Hypnotherapy works on the subconscious, where confidence, imposter pattern, reactivity, and fear of failure actually live. Coaching changes what you do. Hypnotherapy changes what you no longer have to fight against to do it. The two reinforce each other well.
Yes. Marina works in person in Austin and virtually with clients worldwide. Hypnotherapy is internal work, so the location is largely irrelevant to the depth. Many executive clients prefer virtual because they can integrate in their own space immediately afterward rather than transitioning back to the office.
Fully. Marina's practice is private one to one, with no public client list and no testimonials that name anyone without explicit clearance. For clients whose public profile requires discretion, confidentiality is enforced as a core part of the practice, not an add-on.
It depends on what you are working with. Single sessions can produce real shifts, and the patterns running at the executive level often warrant a short series for sustained change. Marina is direct about what she thinks the work requires after the first session, with no package pressure.
Yes. Hypnotherapy works at a different layer than talk therapy or coaching, and the modalities reinforce one another. Marina is comfortable coordinating with your existing providers when that is useful.
Marina Pirkle is a clinical hypnotherapist and hypnoshamanic healer trained under Randall Churchill at the Hypnotherapy Training Institute. She was recognized by Forbes in October 2024, named an American Express Luminary Fellow in 2022, and serves as a wellness partner to Auberge Resorts. Her practice holds a 5.0 Google rating.