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The Signs of Life: Psychologist, Social Worker, Psychedelic Therapy, Research, a prescriber

The Signs of Life is the private practice of Counsellor, Social Worker, Alana Roy. She works primarily with Psychedelic preparation and integration, Children and Families, Youth, Couples and the Deaf, Blind and Deafblind communities.

22/04/2026

Anam Cara meet up magic 🪄

“Frequently, beauty is playful like dancing sunlight, it cannot be predicted, and in the most unlikely scene or situation can suddenly emerge.

This spontaneity and playfulness often subverts our self-importance and throws our plans and intentions into disarray.

Without intending it, we find ourselves coming alive with a sense of celebration and delight.

The pedestrian sequence of a working day breaks, a new door opens and the heart recognizes the silent majesty of the ordinary.

The things we never notice, like health, friends and love, emerge from their subdued presence and stand out in their true radiance as gifts we could never have earned or achieved. Beauty.

John O’Donohue, Divine Beauty: The Invisible Embrace

14/04/2026

Anam Cara Centre
Bridging contemplative practices with the art and science of healing.

Applications are now open for the 2026 Certificate in Psychedelic and Contemplative Therapies (CPACT).

CPACT is a 12-month hybrid training for professionals, students, and therapists seeking an integrative, evidence-based, and experiential pathway into psychedelic and contemplative therapies.

The course includes 200 hours of training, combining core curriculum, contemplative electives, live webinars, study groups, role-plays, and in-person intensives.

We also partner with PAT clinics and trials, supporting pathways into practice through mentoring, supervision, and professional connection.

As Kirstie Missenden, Clinical Psychologist and Anam Cara PAT therapist, shared:
“This training is both professionally enriching and personally transformative, equipping practitioners to engage in this work with confidence and integrity.”

And Nick Lines, Counsellor and Anam Cara PAT therapist, shared:
“Dr Lani Roy and Melissa Warner are exceptional teachers and mentors, sharing their vast knowledge and experience to make this CPACT course unique, relevant, and practical.”

We are proud of the community we are co- creating; guided by the SWIM framework and EMPATHS values, CPACT supports practitioners to develop knowledge, self-awareness, and practical skills for work in this emerging field.

Applications are now open
CPACT begins 21 September 2026

www.anmacaracentre.com.au

04/04/2026

Celebrating this beautiful journey with Kirstie 💜

Thank you for your warmth, wisdom, laughter, and heart. It has been such a joy to share this path together through Anam Cara Centre.

Thank you for being part of our community and for helping to weave something so meaningful alongside us.

With love and gratitude,
Anam Cara Centre ✨

www.anamcaracentre.com.au

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22/03/2026

The best, like water. Lao Tzu

The best, like water,
Benefit all and do not compete.
They dwell in lowly spots that everyone else scorns.
Putting others before themselves,
They find themselves in the foremost place
And come very near to the Tao.

In their dwelling, they love the earth;
In their heart, they love what is deep;
In personal relationships, they love kindness;
In their words, they love truth.
In the world, they love peace.
In personal affairs, they love what is right.
In action, they love choosing the right time.
It is because they do not compete with others
That they are beyond the reproach of the world.

12/03/2026

I lost a colleague and friend last week; a psychiatrist I shall call Dass, for privacy.

We met in that strange overlap where psychiatry, psychedelics, philosophy, and a shared grief at how many people were suffering while the system debated the paperwork all converge.

We spent hours navigating TGA submissions, HREC approvals, and prescribing pathways for psychedelic-assisted therapy in Australia. Not because we thought the bureaucracy was right — because we both understood that the fastest way through a locked door is to know exactly where the lock is. The people waiting on the other side had already run out of time for anything slower.

That was Dass. Rebellious and rigorous in equal measure.
Our humour was extremely dry and quick. The joke was always that we were both supposed to be the adults in the room. And we were. And we absolutely were not. And we both found that very funny.
Conversations moved — memes to moods to mysticism, then back to policy. Chaotic, alive, hilarious, sometimes unexpectedly profound.

What the field lost is his particular combination: intellectual depth, spiritual openness, warmth, deep empathetic awareness of human rights, and wit. The rare capacity to sit with someone at the very edge of what medicine could explain and not flinch.

He made my life better for knowing him. He made the absurd slog of system change feel less lonely.
Our paths cross many times.

Will be barracking for you. 🤍

To those working on the frontlines of mental health, medicine, and system change; please look after yourselves. The work is heavy and the systems we operate within are not always designed to hold us.
Check in on your colleagues. Advocate for proper support structures for those who carry others. We cannot pour from empty vessels, and we cannot afford to lose the people who show up with both heart and rigour— Lani

Grief

09/02/2026

ACER Integration Returns as an Anam Cara Centre Elective – 2026

We’re delighted to welcome ACER Integration back in 2026 as an elective at Anam Cara Centre. Enrol as a standalone offering with a 20% discount, and have it count toward your CPACT certification.

What is ACER Integration?
Created by Dr. Rosalind Watts, clinical psychologist and former Clinical Lead of the Imperial College London Psilocybin for Depression trials, ACER is a 13-month integration journey grounded in the Twelve Tree Teachers framework. It builds on the globally used ACE model (Accept, Connect, Embody) and was designed to sustain the increases in connectedness often sparked—but not maintained—after transformative experiences.

The ACER Pathway:
• Accept – meeting all parts of self with compassion
• Connect – restoring relational and ecological belonging
• Embody – deepening somatic awareness and body wisdom
• Restore – aligning with nature’s seasonal rhythms

What You’ll Experience:
Monthly Tree Teacher themes, guided imagery journeys (including the Pearl Protocol), live sharing circles, breathwork aligned with the Celtic Wheel of the Year, music meditations, expert Q&As, and monthly Woodland Walks with global thought leaders.

Who It’s For:
Therapists, facilitators, space-holders, and individuals navigating deep life transitions. ACER offers a global community of purpose, evidence-informed and nature-based practices, burnout-preventive integration skills, and pathways to become an ACER sharing circle facilitator.

Anam Cara Centre 2026 Offer:
• 20% off the standard £1,440 fee
• Counts as a CPACT elective
• Aligned with Anam Cara’s SWIM and EMPATHS frameworks

Rooted in the Celtic notion of anam cara (soul friend), this partnership honours integration as a relational, ethical, and time-based process—supporting practitioners to walk with wisdom, humility, and care.

Applications open April & October
CPACT October 2026 cohort now accepting applications:

www.anamcaracentre.com.au or drlaniroy@anamcaracentre.com.au

07/02/2026

Co-creating the Future of Medicine-Assisted Psychotherapy ✨

We’re proud to share a new partnership between Anam Cara Centre and Rainbow Mandala Therapies, creating a supervised CPACT Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy (PAT) Clinical Mentoring Pathway for eligible students.

This collaboration reflects years of relationship-building and shared values, grounded in trust, care, and a deep respect for the responsibility this work carries.

Through this pathway, eligible students in Anam Cara’s Certificate of Psychedelic-Assisted and Contemplative Therapies (CPACT) may apply to participate in supervised clinical mentoring within TGA-approved medicine-assisted psychotherapy programs, gaining experience in real-world clinical and research-informed settings alongside experienced practitioners.

At the heart of this pathway is a deep respect for:
✨Learning through relationship and co-mentorship
✨Supporting students over time, not just at one moment
✨Team-based, reflective clinical practice and celebration!
✨Holding clinical rigour alongside contemplative depth and eternal curiosity.

We are especially proud of our students for their patience, care, and commitment to growing into this work with integrity. Training the next generation of practitioners is not about fast pathways, but about walking alongside one another, building trust, and strengthening the ecosystem together.

We continue this work with relationality, clinical rigour, creative wonderment, and a strong dose of GRIT and GRACE building the future of medicine-assisted psychotherapy together.

25/01/2026

Contemplative Electives | CPACT 12-Month Course: Mickey Space medicines of Yin yoga

Massive love to this beautiful Yin YTTC crew ✨

What an honour to journey together.

Over four rich days we explored yin foundations, fascia and meridians, pranayama and meditation, sound healing, and the emotional landscape of the body. The growth we witnessed was incredible: marked by presence, curiosity, and deep embodied listening.

So much gratitude to DJ Mickey Space Space for holding this field with such clarity and care, and to this group for meeting the practice with openness and heart.

This work sits at the heart of our SWIM (& FLOAT) models. Yin invites us to regulate and embody (Somatic), reflect and orient toward values (Wisdom), soften into connection (Interdependence), and notice meaning as it emerges (Metacognition).
Through FLOAT — Feel, Let Go, Open into Awareness, Transcend — yin becomes a lived practice of staying with sensation, releasing effort, and allowing insight to arise organically.

As our Anam Cara students travel to Peru for Asháninka dieta in June, I can’t wait to continue weaving the medicine of yin and dieta — bridging contemplative practice with preparation, containment, and integration.

If you’re interested in Peru dieta, the CPACT 12-month practitioner training, or our other contemplative electives, visit: www.anamcaracentre.com.au

Mickey Space

18/01/2026

“Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain”

Carl Jung

05/01/2026

“IT IS STRANGE TO BE HERE. THE MYSTERY NEVER LEAVES YOU alone. Behind your image, below your words, above your thoughts, the silence of another world waits.

The soul is not simply within the body, hidden somewhere in its recesses. The truth is rather the opposite. Your body is in the soul, and the soul suffuses you completely”.

John O’Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

04/01/2026

“I swear, the reason for full moons is so the gods can more clearly see the mischief they create.” Michael J. Sullivan

25/12/2025

Whoever said diamonds are a girl’s best friend never owned a French bulldog

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