Inner Actions offers psychology, psychotherapy and counselling services for individuals. Allan Brownsdon and Luisa Dal Molin, the principles of Inner Actions, are skilled professionals who utilise a range of skills and approaches depending on the needs of the individual. In the 10 years that Inner Actions has operated, we have helped over six hundred people.

The people we work with include those who:

• Simply want to check out their thinking;
• Want to undertake some personal development;
• Want to change something that isn't working in their lives; and
• With a diagnosable mental health concern such as depression, panic attacks, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder or a range of other medical diagnoses.

Inner Actions can assist you with a range of issues including:

• "Life's just not working"
• Major life transitions
• Trauma and Abuse (including the impact of childhood trauma and sexual abuse)
• Depression (both acute and chronic) and other "Mood Disorders"
• Anxiety
• Alcohol and Drug Dependency
• Gambling
• Relationship Difficulties (Individual work rather than couple's therapy)
• Identity, self esteem and self worth issues
• Problems managing anger
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and
• Personality Disorders

Therapeutic Approaches

At Inner Actions, we utilise a range of therapeutic approaches to assist you including:

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy techniques to assist you in dealing with the immediate impacts of your response to issues that are limiting your ability to function effectively. These include focused psychological strategies such as education about the psychology of the mind (psycho-education) and skills training;

Mindfulness techniques such as Acceptance Commitment Therapy to assist you in better managing strong emotions and self-destructive thoughts; and

Well researched and evidence based psychodynamic techniques such as "Self-Psychology", "The Conversational Model" and "Relational Transactional Analysis". These approaches assist you with insight and the ability to sustain personal change.

We will work with you to identify your needs and help you to clarify what you want to work on. We will then discuss with you what approaches might be taken to achieving your desired outcomes. In reality it is rarely a single technical approach that is the best solution. See the section on choosing a therapist for a fuller discussion about what really works in therapy.

Location Details

Our central location in the heart of Belconnen makes us accessible to all people within Canberra and the ACT region. We are easy to find and there is free parking available close by. We are also on major bus routes. Inner Actions is a mere 15 minutes from Civic. See our Contact Us page for details.