About Inner Actions®

Inner Actions began in 2000 and by January 2012 had helped over 800 clients with a range of issues. Inner Actions is a professional psychology and psychotherapy practice that aims to support you to improve your well-being and create a more satisfying life. Inner Actions is founded on the principles of client centred therapy, recognising that you have the right to find solutions that are congruent with your personal values and expectations. Inner Actions will always work in your best interests.

About Allan Brownsdon

Allan is a partner of Inner Actions and a professionally trained therapist with appropriate university level qualifications supplemented by private sector training and ongoing professional development.

Allan's qualifications include:

Bachelor of Arts in Adult Education (University of Canberra, 1988)
Graduate Diploma in Community Counselling (University of Canberra, 1998)
Certificate in Violence and Trauma (Auckland University of Technology, 1997)
Diploma in Adult Psychotherapy (Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists, 2004)

Allan is a member of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists (ANZAP) and is a Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA) registered Clinical Psychotherapist and Counsellor. Allan undertakes regular professional development activities, engages a "professional supervisor" to support him in his work with you, and maintains regular meetings with colleagues to discuss ongoing developments in counselling and psychotherapy practice.

About Luisa Dal Molin

Luisa is a partner of Inner Actions, a registered psychologist and a professionally trained therapist. Luisa has extensive training and experience working with a range of issues and concerns.

Luisa's qualifications include:

Bachelor of Science (Honors) [Psychology Major] (Australian National University, 1998)
Diploma in Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy (Australian Centre for Integrative Studies, 2007)

Luisa is an associate member of the Australian Psychological Society and a registered Medicare Provider. She is able to accept referrals for clients with Mental Health Treatment Plans (MHTP) and is a registered provider of services under the ATAP scheme. She is also able to see clients who are seeking personal referrals (self-referral) without access to Medicare services.

Luisa undertakes regular professional development activities and is currently engaged in undertaking a Master of Clinical Psychology program at the University of Canberra where she is extending her skills in working with children and adolescents, and in undertaking complex cognitive assessments.
She has undertaken training in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), a modality developed to assist individuals who experience difficulty regulating their emotions and maintaining healthy relationships.

Luisa engages a "professional supervisor" to support her in her work with you.

About Elizabeta Ploskova

Elizabeta is an experienced registered psychologist who has particular skills working with depression and anxiety issues. She also has a particular interest in working with people with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and related issues.

Elizabeta is currently extending her skills and qualifications by completing a PhD in Clinical Psychology at the Australian National University. Her PhD is exploring the biological factors that contribute to emotional dysregulation an aspect of BPD with the potential to develop better ways of helping people manage their emotional distress. Elizabeta has experience in working with children, adolescents and adults.

Bachelor of Science (Honors) [Psychology Major] (Australian National University, 2005)
Bachelor of Science (Honors) [Psychology Major] (University of Wollongong, 2004)

Elizabeta is a registered Medicare Provider and is able to accept referrals for clients with Mental Health Treatment Plans (MHTP) and is a registered provider of services under the ATAP scheme. She has training in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).

About Our Approach

Both Allan and Luisa are skilled professionals who employ a range of therapeutic interventions and strategies to assist you. Depending on your needs we draw on:

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.

The journey of mental well-being and personal growth is very much an individual journey. While we as therapists need a model to guide our work with you, your need as the client is for an appropriate response to your individual personality and life experiences. Both Allan and Luisa are absolutely commited to bringing our total experience and skill to assisting you in your unique human journey rather than following a single proscribed model of therapy. In other words while guided by best practice research, we do not believe in or follow a "one size fits all" therapeutic approach.

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.