Meet the parts you've kept in the dark and reclaim their power. Shadow work through clinical hypnotherapy — access the subconscious layer where integration actually happens.
Schedule a SessionCarl Jung defined the shadow as the parts of the self we have hidden, suppressed, or disowned — not because they're inherently bad, but because at some point it became safer or more acceptable to push them away. The anger that wasn't allowed. The need that went unmet long enough to feel shameful. The parts of us that were judged, punished, or simply out of step with what the people around us could handle.
The shadow doesn't disappear when it's pushed down. It governs from below — in the reactive patterns, the self-sabotage, the ways we treat ourselves and others that we don't quite understand. Shadow work is the process of bringing those parts into consciousness and integrating them, rather than managing them from the outside.
Many people have strong intellectual understanding of their shadow — they know what the patterns are, they can name the wound, they've read the books and done the journaling. And the patterns persist. That's because shadow material is subconscious. It doesn't live in the reasoning mind; it lives below it. Insight is necessary but not sufficient.
Clinical hypnotherapy creates direct access to the subconscious layer where shadow aspects are actually encoded. Marina guides you into a focused, relaxed state where that layer becomes accessible — not to analyze the material, but to meet it directly, understand its original function, and assist in integrating it rather than continuing to suppress it.
Talk therapy is valuable — especially for building understanding and establishing safety. But for many people, the understanding has been there for years. They know what happened. They know the pattern. And the subconscious keeps running the old program anyway.
Hypnotherapy works at the level where the program is stored. Marina doesn't spend the session analyzing or interpreting. She creates conditions where the part of you that holds the shadow material can surface, speak, and be genuinely met — often for the first time. That's when integration becomes possible.
This is not a gentler version of therapy. It's a different point of entry. For the right person, it moves faster and reaches further than years of analysis.
Marina begins by hearing your intention — what you sense is in the shadow, what pattern you're working with, what you want to understand or integrate. She doesn't impose a structure; she builds the session around what's actually present for you.
From there, you enter a focused, relaxed state through guided hypnotherapy. You remain fully aware and in control throughout. The state makes the subconscious accessible — Marina guides you toward the shadow material, helps you understand its original function, and works toward genuine integration rather than continued management.
Sessions run 75 minutes. Marina often provides a custom recording for between-session integration. For deep shadow work, the 30-Day Soul Alchemy Immersion — four sessions with a custom recording — creates the sustained container the work sometimes needs.
Marina is Forbes-featured and trained under Randall Churchill, one of the foremost clinical hypnotherapy educators in the country. She has spent years integrating clinical methodology with approaches that can hold the depth shadow work requires — including her lineage training in shamanic practices that understand the shadow not just psychologically but spiritually.
She works in-person in Austin and virtually with clients anywhere in the world. Sessions are $400 for 75 minutes.
Reach out to connect with Marina. She'll help you understand whether shadow work is the right starting point for where you are right now.
Connect with Marina In-person in Austin, TX · Virtual sessions worldwide · $400 per sessionShadow work is a term rooted in Jungian psychology — the process of becoming conscious of the parts of yourself you have hidden, suppressed, or disowned. These shadow aspects aren't inherently negative; they're often just the parts that weren't safe to show, or that you learned to judge. Bringing them into awareness — rather than managing them from the outside — is what produces genuine, lasting change.
Most shadow material is subconscious — meaning it doesn't respond well to analysis or intention alone. Hypnotherapy creates direct access to the subconscious, which is where shadow aspects actually live. Marina guides you into a focused state where the material becomes accessible, then works to identify the original encoding and assist in integration rather than continued suppression.
It shares lineage with psychodynamic therapy but differs in method. Marina is a clinical hypnotherapist, not a licensed therapist. Shadow work sessions focus on subconscious integration through hypnotherapy — a different tool than talk therapy, and often one that moves faster for people whose intellectual understanding has outrun their emotional and subconscious integration.
Marina Pirkle at Modern Mind Alchemy is a Forbes-featured clinical hypnotherapist offering shadow work sessions in Austin TX and virtually. She uses clinical hypnotherapy to access the subconscious layer where shadow material lives — going deeper than talk-based approaches.