Mind Medicine Australia:
Post-Traumatic Growth After Sexual Trauma

An online course supporting recovery, embodiment and wellbeing after sexual trauma with Dr Alana Roy and Melissa Warner.

Dr Alana Roy and Melissa Warner have lived experience of sexual abuse, domestic violence and teach from their experience of post traumatic growth with the use of psychedelics.

“Let us join together as women, on a heroes journey, from a victim to a survivor, let us integrate so that we can become whole and reclaim our power” - Dr Alana Roy

Outcomes of the Healing Sexual Assault course:

Knowledge: of both trauma processes as well as medicinal psychedelics and how they may support recovery
Connection: to self and community
Awareness: of the body, coping mechanisms, and change processes
Feeling: by creating safe boundaries physically and emotionally
Grounding: in growth practices such as meditation, journaling, compassionate self-touch, and empowered voice
Participants will receive a Spotify trauma informed music list and self-care tool kit.

The course will cover the following topics

Introduction to the impacts of sexual abuse
The heroes journey: mindfulness, acceptance and reconnection
Neuroscience and research overview
Understanding your predictive processing. How psychedelics relax prior beliefs and support change
The Somatic Sense
Working with the body, sensation and, your monthly cycle
Impacts of Sexual Trauma
Broken boundaries and trust, loss of identity and returning to self
Dissociation, Archetypes and Multiplicity
Developing awareness of dissociation, multiplicity of the psyche and authentic relating to all parts of us
Preparation for psychedelics
Compassionate self-inquiry, intention setting and metacognition
Transcendence: The acute psychedelic experience
Benefit, maximisation and risk mitigation
Gratitude, precautions and coming back
Integration

Please note: Tickets can be used for another program credit if you cannot attend.

This course is designed for cis women's needs. At the moment we do not have the capacity for focusing on the very important needs of trans women and non-binary people. We are working on making this happen in the future. We want to create another space, to be co facilitated with members from the LGBTQIA+ community with lived experience

Please email alana@mindmedicineaustralia.org if you would like to collaborate.

More about the Presenters:

Dr Alana Roy
Ph. D Psychology, B. A Social Work (MHSW)
Practice Manager

Dr Alana Roy is the Practice Manager of Mind Medicine Australia, a Psychologist and a Social Worker. She is also a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne and teaches and supervises students across multiple universities.

Alana has also worked in frontline sexual assault services for 13 years providing therapy to children, women and men working with victims, police and forensic doctors. She is passionate about emotion focused therapy, EMDR and trauma informed practices. Although these therapies are effective for a range of trauma survivors many victims continue to live with unbearable pain.

The reality is that there is an epidemic of sexual abuse in our world and we require radical treatments to tackle this global issue. Alana's own experiences of trauma and burnout lead her to seek out legal psychedelic assisted treatment overseas. It truly was 10 years of psychotherapy (insights) in one night. However, it wasn't 10 years of change in one night. Alana came back to Australia and was unable to locate a professional to help integrate these experiences. She realised that Australia needed a skilled mental health sector to help support victims who use psychedelics to overcome their trauma to process and integrate these transformative and healing experiences. Australia is falling behind in the global psychedelic renaissance.

Since this treatment, Alana has dedicated her life to researching and developing clinical services in the field of psychedelic and plant medicines. Mind Medicine Australia is a ground-breaking NGO advocating for the responsible use of psychedelic-assisted therapies.

Alana hopes to help make history in supporting legislative and policy change so that victims and all people with mental health issues have access to these medicines.

Melissa Warner
B.Sc
Education Fellow

As an advocate for innovative solutions for mental health, Melissa is Education and Communications Officer at Mind Medicine Australia, Secretary of Psychedelic Research in Science and Medicine, co-founder of the Australian Psychedelic Society and is a member of the UK-Australian Young Leaders Forum.

After graduating in Neuroscience from the University of Melbourne, Melissa travelled to leading international centres of psychedelic research, transformative technology and Buddhist meditation to forecast next-generation mental health treatments. Melissa traverses the divide between research and therapeutic practice through her lived experience in healing from PTSD with psychedelic-assisted therapy internationally.

With a background in digital art, programming and performance art, Melissa brings a creative and future-focused outlook to her pursuits. Melissa is currently a post-graduate student at The University of Melbourne on the path towards clinical psychology and is creating therapeutic virtual reality programs to support psychedelic-assisted therapy and enhanced wellbeing.

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