Empaths Integrative Somatic Psychotherapy (EISP)

The EISP Process

Dr Lani Roy works with patients who are exploring novel and alternative treatments for their mental and spiritual wellbeing.
Lani is now offering Empaths Integrative Somatic Psychotherapy (EISP)©, a transdiagnostic approach to therapy that can be utilised with medication-assisted psychotherapy, or a as a stand-alone non-medicine process. Dr Lani Roy’s approach incorporates the somatic, relational, transpersonal, and metacognitive domains, bridging psychedelic therapy and contemplative wisdom.

Intake and assessment

50 minutes $280

Non-Medicine EISP Session

50 minutes $280
($91 rebate)

Medicine-Assisted Session

2 hours $280 per hour
($91 rebate)

Integration

Altered states + somatic/relational healing + metacognitive skills + transpersonal + contemplative practices = Embodied ways of seeing, being and doing.

Dr Lani Roy and the client design a holistic safety plan with resources and self-care activities to support the EISP journey. This can involve your ecosystem and family so they can be part of the preparation and integration process.

The client is supported to explore parts, shadow work, legacy burdens and their wider relational field within the context of attachment, trauma informed therapy, and metacognitive enhancement.

Dr Lani encourages the client to be present with arising sensations by voluntarily reducing defence mechanisms and copying techniques that have built up across a lifetime.

This process is called Selective Inhibition, which is utilised across many modalities throughout somatic and therapeutic literature. The approach supports clients to drop into their primary consciousness and experience raw autonomic nervous system states such as flight fight, freeze, fawn and dissociate.

The therapist holds a container of secure attachment and helps the client bring association to their specific nervous system states, unresolved trauma and defence mechanism.

During the process, the client may experience somatic releases in the form of somatic waves, emotional releases, non-verbal memories, transpersonal connections, and insight.

Metacognitive skill development is paired with attachment informed care which can support meaning making, and the stabilisation of embodied behavioural change.

Empaths Integrative Somatic Psychotherapy may involve touch if the client requests this support. This may take the form of hand holding, a light touch on shoulder or holding a foot for grounding. Sustained eye contact can be utilised to help evoke and explore both negative and positive transference. Client consent contracts are created, and all sessions can be recorded for safety and quality assurance. The depth of this work can only be achieved if both the client and therapist are building a solid foundation of safety.

Disclaimer: this information is not aimed at promoting use of cannabis and ketamine. This is not intended to be used as medical advice or a substitute for your own practitioner’s advice.

Non-Medicine EISP Sessions

Non-medicine sessions are a part of this modality and are essential to integrate the insights and experiences of the psychedelic sessions without the effects of the medicine. Integrative practices may include creative, musical, contemplative and somatic based practices.
Dr Lani Roy actively embodies the 5 Pillars of Attachment within the therapeutic relationship so that the client has a strong foundation to explore their deep relational wounding. The 5 Pillars of Attachment are:

A sense of felt safety

A sense of being seen and known (attunement)

The experience of felt comfort (soothing)

A sense of being valued (expressed delight)

Sense of support for being and becoming one’s unique best self

Dr. Roy is insured to work therapeutically with people who have taken their own legal and medically prescribed cannabis. She does not define what dose the client takes as this is decided by the clients GP. The SOL does not condone clients driving after medicine assisted therapy.