About Lili Marlene
Hi, I’m Lili Marlene Kaufman, Modern Mystic and founder of Sacred Key Alchemy.
My path began in the fields of communications and public health, where I worked across school systems, coalitions, and nonprofits to design programs that inspired healing, education, and prevention. But over time, I realized that real transformation doesn’t just happen within systems; it happens within the nervous system, the energy body, and the soul.
That realization led me deeper. I became a mental health therapist supporting children, teens, and adults through anxiety, trauma, addiction, and emotional disconnection. I’ve sat with pain in its rawest form and learned to meet it not with judgment, but with curiosity, compassion, and presence. My work is grounded in clinical training, somatic integration, attachment repair, and trauma-informed care, yet guided equally by intuition, ritual, and a reverence for the unseen.
My Energetic Blueprint
I work at the intersection of embodiment, psychology, spirituality, and transformation. For those who resonate with energetic frameworks, here’s a glimpse into how I’m wired and how that shapes the container I hold.
Human Design
I’m a Manifesting Generator with Sacral Authority and a 1/3 Profile.
This means I’m designed to respond to what’s alive in the moment, learn through lived experience, and move once something feels true in my body. My work is intuitive, embodied, and experimental. I don’t follow rigid formulas, I follow resonance.
My Alchemical Archetypes
Although I use the word coach, the way I work is best understood alchemically.
My presence blends three archetypal roles:
Psychopomp Midwife
I walk with people through shadow, grief, and transition, helping old identities fall away without rushing the process.
The Athanor (the alchemical furnace)
I hold steady, regulated space, the slow, consistent heat that allows real transformation to happen gently and organically.
The Green Lion
After things dissolve, life returns. Creativity, agency, and inner knowing begin to wake back up. People often leave sessions feeling more themselves, not just better.
Together, this creates a container for transmutation. Old stories compost. New meaning forms.
Astrology
I’m Leo Sun, Leo Rising, Aquarius Moon.
This reflects a path of embodied leadership, creative expression, emotional depth, and future focused vision. I naturally bridge heart and mind, shadow and light, individuality and collective healing.
What this means for you
People who work with me often experience:
a deeper sense of safety in their body
quiet but powerful emotional release
clarity after stagnation or confusion
reconnection to inner knowing
gentle but real momentum forward
This work is embodied, and relational. It’s not about becoming someone new. It’s about remembering who you already are.
Education & Certifications
Education
Master’s in Social Work, University of Missouri–St. Louis
Bachelor’s in Media Literacy, Webster University
Clinical & Somatic Training
Certified Trauma-Informed Therapist
Certified Somatic Therapist
Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Certified
Reiki Attunement Level 1
Trained in Psychodynamic Theory
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Trauma-Informed CBT
Play Therapy
Mindfulness-Based Practices
Former Massage Therapist (active somatic bodywork foundation, no longer licensed)
Spiritual, Consciousness & Integrative Studies
Extensive study of Buddhism and contemplative practice
Advanced practitioner of Witchcraft and Earth based spiritual traditions
Consciousness Raising and awareness based practices
Tarot study and intuitive development
Enrolled in Birch Tree Interfaith Ministry with ordination as Mystic and Interfaith
Minister anticipated August 2026