Dr Alana (Lani) Roy is the Founder of The Signs of Life Psychology, Director of Anam Cara Centre for Psychedelics and Contemplative Therapies and Chair and Founding Board Member of AMAPP The Australian Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Practitioners (AMAPP).

She is a psychologist, social worker, and therapist and has spent the last 15 years working in mental health, suicide prevention, trauma, sexual abuse, family violence, and the disability sector. Lani is an Associate Research Fellow for Swinburne University. Lani specialises in harm reduction in the field of psychedelics, sexual abuse and complex trauma and the Ayahuasca and the vegetelista dieta lineage. Refer to this section for more information https://thesignsoflife.com.au/ayahuasca-dieta-preparation-and-integration/

Lani has worked with borderline personality and dissociative identity disorder in various roles in the community, such as rape crisis centres with victims of ritual abuse; childhood and adult sexual assault; supporting women in the sex industry; and survivors of human trafficking. She specialises in complex trauma, disabilities and dual diagnosis, and working with the Deaf community by providing therapy in Auslan sign language.

She is dedicated to evidence-based therapies and increasing public and professional safety by working closely with key advisors and researchers in this rapidly emerging field of psychedelics.

Lani provides a range of educational and group-based psychedelic programs. She is a board-approved psychology supervisor and provides psychology, social work, and biomedical student placements and supervision across a range of psychedelic projects. Lani coordinates the psychedelic and plant medicine Mental Health Professional Network (MHPN) in Australian.

Lani has begun providing PAP for clients accessing ketamine treatment in Australia with partnering clinical organisations. She is currently working on a range of research trials focusing on ketamine, cannabis, Ayahuasca and other novel treatments.

Lani has co-created a model with Melissa Warner titled SWIM:

The four foundational frames of SWIM each include four learning lenses:
1. Metacognition: Mindset, Mindfulness, Multiplicity, and Meaning
2. Somatic: Presence, Neuroception, Compassion, Embodiment
3. Interdependence: Connection, Creativity, and Transcendence
4. Wisdom: Philosophy, Contemplation, Ethics, and Eudaimonia

We are excited to launch our new programs, retreats and dosing pathways utilising this model to support our students, clients and community.

Lani is passionate about holistic and integrated healthcare and weaves integrative assessments, internal family systems therapy, EMDR, somatic psychotherapy, transpersonal psychology into her practice.

Lani has an Advanced Certificate in Nature Based Therapies and is passionate about reconnecting to land, culture and self.

She is passionate about connecting with professionals and community members who have integrity, creativity, and innovation; people who can uphold the sacred nature of these medicines as we bring them safely into the clinical context. Most importantly; she is a mother of two young boys, an owner of two beautiful high needs French bulldogs, and a wife of a detective.