Dr. Alana (Lani) Roy is a psychologist, social worker, and therapist at the forefront of integrative mental healthcare and psychedelic harm reduction. She is Co-Director of Anam Cara, Chair and Founding Board Member of the Australian Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Practitioners (AMAPP), Founder and Director of The Signs of Life Psychology, and Associate Research Fellow at Swinburne University.

Lani brings 15 years of dedicated experience working across mental health, suicide prevention, complex trauma, sexual abuse, family violence, and the disability sector. Her clinical journey includes working with borderline personality disorder and dissociative identity disorder in various community settings, including rape crisis centers with victims of ritual abuse, childhood and adult sexual assault survivors, supporting women in the sex industry, and survivors of human trafficking. She specializes in complex trauma, disabilities and dual diagnosis, and is uniquely skilled in working with the Deaf community by providing therapy in Auslan sign language.

As an AMAPP-accredited Psychedelic Therapist and AMAPP-approved supervisor, Lani provides Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy for clients accessing ketamine and cannabis treatment in Australia through partnering clinical organizations. She is currently involved in research trials focusing on psilocybin and Ayahuasca, and has completed extensive training in Australia and America across a range of novel treatments.

Lani specializes in harm reduction in the field of psychedelics, sexual abuse, and complex trauma, particularly within the Ayahuasca, vegetelista, and Ashanika dieta lineages. She co-created the EMPATHS Integrative Somatic Assisted Psychotherapy (EISP) model with Melissa Warner—a framework that emphasizes metacognitive, somatic, transpersonal, and relational dimensions of psychedelic therapies. She is passionate about holistic and integrated healthcare and weaves integrative assessments, Internal Family Systems therapy, EMDR, somatic psychotherapy, and transpersonal psychology into her practice. She holds an Advanced Certificate in Nature Based Therapies and is passionate about reconnecting to land, culture, and self.

As a board-approved psychology supervisor, Lani provides psychology, social work, and biomedical student placements and supervision across Deakin, Monash, Victoria University, Psychedelic Research in Science and Medicine (PRISM), Entheogenesis Australia (EGA), and the Mental Health Foundation. She coordinates the Psychedelic and Plant Medicine Mental Health Professional Network (MHPN) and has taught as an Australian instructor for Psychedelics Today’s Navigating Psychedelics for Clinicians course and other Australian psychedelic programs. She also volunteers with DanceWize to support drug education at festivals.

Lani is committed to evidence-based therapies and increasing public and professional safety by working closely with key advisors and researchers in this rapidly emerging field. She is passionate about connecting with professionals and community members who bring integrity, creativity, and innovation—people who can uphold the sacred nature of these medicines as they are safely integrated into clinical contexts. Most importantly, she loves growing psychedelic-informed communities and connecting meaningfully with people on this path.

Outside of her professional work, Lani is a mother of two young boys and guardian to two beloved high-needs French bulldogs.

Important Note: Dr. Lani Roy is not a prescriber of any medication or psychedelic medicines. She works collaboratively with external psychiatrists and GPs to provide comprehensive care.