1.2 - Dr Alana Roy: Why Psychedelic Medicine Offers New Hope

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Dr. Alana Roy is a psychologist, mental health social worker, counselor, advocate, researcher, mindfulness meditation teacher, and therapist and has spent the last 13 years working in a broad range of settings including suicide prevention, trauma, sexual abuse, and family violence, and also the disability sector.

Alana utilizes and offers a wide range of therapies in her practice including emotion-focused therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), cognitive-behavioral therapy, neuro-linguistic programming, acceptance and commitment therapy, and mindfulness and meditation approaches.

In this episode:

Current and future therapies and treatment options for mental health
Potential complementary effects of mindfulness meditation and psilocybin
Traditional rituals and practices for altering consciousness
The categorization of drugs in modern society
The default mode network

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