📍 Illinois – Dr. Marina Kostina, PhD, Certified Hypnotist – Chicago
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📞 Text only (no phone calls, please): (319) 594-5530
1714 West Lawrence Avenue
Chicago, IL 60640
Appointments are required.
Also Available via Live Virtual Sessions 👩💻
Meet Dr. Marina Kostina, PhD, Certified Hypnotist and Reiki Master
Are You Ready to Move Beyond a Pattern That No Longer Serves You?
You may want to stop smoking, feel calmer, strengthen your confidence, or change a habit or relationship pattern that keeps repeating.
Dr. Marina Kostina is a certified hypnotist, transformational coach, Reiki Master and Teacher, author, and founder of Ravenous for Life Healing Center in Chicago. Her PhD is in Education, with doctoral work related to communication, human connection, and online learning.
She offers personalized hypnosis and coaching with optional somatic, sound-based, spiritual, or energy-oriented practices.
An Integrative Approach
Choose the Methods That Align With Your Goals
Your sessions can be shaped around your preferences, beliefs, and readiness for change.
Working with Marina may help you:
- Feel calmer and more grounded
- Recognize limiting thoughts and habits
- Strengthen confidence and resilience
- Explore relationship or codependency patterns
- Develop greater somatic awareness
- Practice meditation or self-hypnosis
- Navigate a personal transition
Spiritual and energy-based practices are optional and should not be considered medical or psychological treatment.
Areas of Focus
What Would You Like to Experience Differently?
You should consider contacting Marina if you want to:
- Reduce everyday stress
- Stop smoking
- Change an unwanted habit
- Move beyond a fear or limiting belief
- Strengthen confidence and personal empowerment
- Explore relationship patterns
- Develop greater emotional resilience
- Pursue personal or spiritual growth
- Change alcohol-related behavior alongside appropriate professional care
Alcohol withdrawal can be medically dangerous. Anyone who may be physically dependent on alcohol should seek medical guidance before reducing or stopping use.
Why Might You Choose Dr. Marina Kostina in Chicago?
If you are trying to change a habit while also rebuilding confidence after a difficult life experience, Marina Kostina offers an approach shaped by both professional training and personal recovery.
Marina developed a strong interest in resilience and post-trauma personal growth. This lived experience may help you feel understood if your goal involves more than stopping a behavior and includes redefining how you see yourself.
An Integrative, Personalized Approach
Depending upon your preferences, Marina may combine hypnosis and coaching with somatic practices, sound-based relaxation, meditation, Reiki, or other spiritually oriented methods.
Your work may help you:
- Identify triggers connected to smoking or another habit
- Examine thoughts and emotions reinforcing the pattern
- Develop greater awareness of physical stress responses
- Strengthen confidence and personal agency
- Practice relaxation and self-hypnosis
- Reinforce a healthier identity and daily choices
You can request hypnosis and coaching without participating in spiritual or energy-based services. Ask Marina to explain which methods she recommends and the purpose of each one.
Multilingual Support
Marina provides services in English, Spanish, and Russian. This may benefit you if you communicate more comfortably in one of these languages or want to discuss personal experiences with fewer language barriers.
Education and Professional Background
Marina holds a PhD in Education from the University of Iowa. Her doctoral studies examined the psychology of online interactions and helped shape her interest in communication, human connection, and learning across distances.
Hypnosis Training
Marina completed hypnosis training or certification through:
- The National Guild of Hypnotists
- Advanced Simpson Protocol training
- The Jacquin Hypnosis Academy
- The New-Ericksonian Academy
- PTSD-focused hypnosis training
- Forensic hypnosis training
- The Dovzhenko Method
She has also pursued training in Reiki, Shamballa Reiki, sound healing, somatic practices, reflexology, herbalism, and traditional spiritual practices studied in Russia, Siberia, and Mexico.
In-Person and Virtual Sessions
Ravenous for Life Healing Center offers:
- In-person sessions in Chicago
- Virtual hypnosis and coaching appointments
- Reiki and energy-based sessions
- Sound and somatic wellness experiences
- Workshops, retreats, and practitioner training
Clients should contact the center directly to confirm current pricing, appointment availability, and whether a particular program is appropriate for their needs.
Contact Dr. Marina Kostina
Ravenous for Life Healing Center
📍 1714 West Lawrence Avenue
Chicago, IL 60640
📞 Text only (no phone calls, please): (319) 594-5530
✉️ info@drmarinakostina.com
🌐 ravenouslifecenter.com
Begin With a Conversation
Contact Ravenous for Life Healing Center to explain your goals, review her website and biography, ask about available methods, and determine whether Marina’s services may be appropriate for you.
In-person and virtual appointments may be available. Text the practice rather than calling, and confirm current pricing, availability, service formats, and professional scope directly.
Independent-Practice Disclosure
Ravenous for Life Healing Center is independently owned and operated. Dr. Marina Kostina is recommended by Healthy Life Centers but is not an employee, agent, partner, or representative of Healthy Life Centers.
Healthy Life Centers does not supervise or control Marina’s credentials, services, statements, fees, scheduling, professional decisions, client relationships, or results. Prospective clients are responsible for evaluating whether her qualifications and services are appropriate for their goals.
