Dr. Alana (Lani) Roy
Co-Director, Anam Cara Centre for Psychedelics and Contemplative Therapies | Chair, AMAPP | Founder & Director, Signs of Life Psychology
Dr. Alana (Lani) Roy is Co-Director of the Anam Cara Centre for Psychedelics and Contemplative Therapies and Chair of the Australian Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Practitioners (AMAPP). She is also the Founder and Director of The Signs of Life Psychology and has dedicated more than 15 years to mental health, trauma, suicide prevention, sexual abuse, family violence, disability, and harm reduction.
Lani’s clinical and research focus extends to the Asháninka and Vegetalista lineage, where she has lived experience and collaborated with Swinburne University and Psychedelic Research in Science and Medicine (PRISM) on Ayahuasca dietero research. This research directly informed the creation of the Pacha Tinkuay Program in Peru, offered through the Anam Cara Centre.
Pacha Tinkuay is an immersive educational program integrating Indigenous cosmology, plant medicine traditions, and clinical integration practices. Rooted in the three realms of Andean-Amazonian wisdom, Hanan Pacha (upper world/spirit), Kay Pacha (earthly life), and Ukhu Pacha (inner transformation)—it teaches authentic dieta practices, culturally respectful integration, and holistic therapeutic skills.
Lani has decimated her professional focus to supporting psychedelic therapists, strengthening ethical frameworks, and building a resilient psychedelic ecosystem. She works alongside leaders, students, and practitioners to foster safety, integrity, and culturally informed care within this rapidly evolving field.
Her professional path is shaped by grassroots harm reduction experience, including volunteering as a DanceWize peer worker at music festivals and pill testing sites, providing frontline drug-checking education and peer support. These experiences deeply inform her trauma-informed, public health-oriented approach to psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy.
She has worked extensively with complex trauma presentations, including borderline personality disorder and dissociative identity disorder, and has supported survivors of ritual abuse, childhood and adult sexual assault, human trafficking, systemic exploitation, and women in the sex industry. Lani also works with individuals with disabilities and dual diagnoses, including providing therapy in Auslan sign language for the Deaf community.
In clinical practice, Lani provides ketamine- and cannabis-assisted psychotherapy in collaboration with clinical organisations and contributes to research and training in psychedelic integration and trauma recovery. She is an AMAPP-accredited Psychedelic Therapist and co-creator (with Melissa Warner) of EMPATHS Integrative Somatic Assisted Psychotherapy (EISP), a therapeutic model integrating metacognitive, somatic, transpersonal, and relational approaches.
She is passionate about supporting veterans and first responders, inspired by family members serving in policing and defence security. She integrates Internal Family Systems (IFS), EMDR, somatic psychotherapy, transpersonal psychology, and nature-based therapies and holds an Advanced Certificate in Nature-Based Therapies.
Outside of work, Lani is a dedicated mother of two young boys and carer of her high-needs French bulldogs, Magic and Mushroom.
