Psychedelics, The Body and Traumatic Transference

Psychedelics, the Body & Traumatic Transference

Saj Ravi and Dr Lani Roy will explore psychedelics, the body and traumatic transference with cannabis and ketamine assisted psychotherapy. Saj will share his extensive knowledge of how to work with traumatic transference using relational dynamics and eye contact in the psychedelic experience.The focus of psychedelic somatic interactional psychotherapy (PSIP) is to maximise the relational and autonomic healing capacity of psychedelic medicine to treat complex, childhood developmental trauma. 

Dr Lani Roy will share her experience of completing the first stages of the PSIP training and insights from the field of cannabis and ketamine therapy in Australia.

Psychedelic Somatic Institue

Saj Razvi Director of Education

Saj Razvi is the Director of Education at PSI. He is a former clinical researcher in the MAPS Phase 2 trial of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy. He is faculty at Synthesis, taught PTSD studies at the University of Denver, and a PhD course at the University of Copenhagen. He is one of the primary developers of the Psychedelic Somatic Interactional Psychotherapy (PSIP) modality which is a next generation, primary consciousness oriented psychotherapy. 

Saj's primary focus is to train clinicians to provide legal, effective psychedelic treatment in their private practice settings utilizing readily accessible medicines such as cannabis and ketamine. He provides PSI trainings and supervision to students internationally.

The Signs of Life Psychology

Dr Lani Roy 

Dr Alana (Lani) Roy is the Founder of The Signs of Life Psychology. 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 currently apprenticing under Saj Ravi Psychedelic Somatic Interactional Psychotherapy model for cannabis and ketamine assisted psychotherapy. 

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. Lani also specialises in preparation and integration in the field of psychedelic and sexual abuse survivors, particularly with Ayahuasca and the vegetelista dieta process.

For more information about her personal journey towards healing and psychedelics please click here.

Lani works alongside Melissa Warner, providing 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 Psychedelic Research in Science and Medicine (PRISM), Entheogenesis Australia (EGA) and the Mental Health Foundation and various universities. Lani coordinates the psychedelic and plant medicine Mental Health Professional Network (MHPN). Lani has taught as an Australian teacher on Psychedelics Today Navigating Psychedelics for Clinicians and various other Australian programs. Lani has begun providing Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy (PAP) for clients accessing ketamine treatment in Australia. She is currently working on a range of research trials focusing on psilocybin, and Ayahuasca.

 SOL Harm Reduction Stance

• SOL acknowledges that psychedelics are currently illegal in Australia. SOL advocates for decriminalisation and provides nuanced harm reduction services. SOL does not endorse or encourage illegal use of psychedelics.
• SOL acknowledges freedom of consciousness and the many ways people may choose to take psychedelics (clinical, ceremonial, solo and guided processes).
  Please be aware of the legal context that impacts your personal situation and the potential benefits and risks to self and others.
• SOL acknowledges that many of these medicines have been woven into indigenous communities for thousands of years.
• SOL has so much to learn about ayni/reciprocity, sustainability and shamanistic models of health care. Due to the psychedelic renaissance we are seeing both a rapid growth of scientific trials and changes in policies and laws around the world.
• SOL consults across this global community and information provided in SOL programs does need to be considered alongside your current legal context.