Blue Horizon Counselling

27/07/2026

Impulsivity in the classroom isn't a behaviour to fix — it's information.

Join Dr Yuliya Richard for a live CPD webinar unpacking the four neurological pathways behind impulsive presentations in neurodivergent students. Move from labelling to formulation, with real classroom case studies and practical takeaways.
Register here: https://tinyurl.com/54472rwb

📅 12 Aug · 5–6:30pm AEST · 1.5 CPD hours

03/06/2026

I used to think my stress was ambition. I was wrong.

For years I confused a dysregulated nervous system for drive. I confused urgency for importance. And I kept going, until I couldn’t.

If you recognise yourself in any of these slides, this is for you.

✦ Holistic Recharge: A Restorative Training on Burnout Prevention & Recovery
July 6–12 | Princesa Garden Island Resort & Spa, Philippines

This is a 7-day immersive CPD training retreat designed for psychologists, counsellors, social workers, and allied health professionals who are helping everyone but themselves.

Here’s what’s included:
6 nights luxury accommodation (TripAdvisor Hall of Fame resort)
All-inclusive chef-curated gourmet meals
20-hour CPD — clinically grounded, tax-deductible
Complimentary arrival massage
Daily optional yoga, meditation & somatic movement sessions
Free afternoons for the beach, spa, or stillness
Partners/family welcome to share your room at no extra cost

Sessions run in the mornings only. The rest is yours.

This isn’t just professional development. It’s permission to pause and a clinically sound framework for building a sustainable practice and life.

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Message me and we can have a brief chat.

I’d love to share this week with you.

31/05/2026

Most people who struggle with impulsivity have been told, in one way or another, that it's a patience problem.
It isn't.

Impulsivity is one of the most misunderstood constructs in mental health. It shows up differently across disorders, across age groups, across contexts. And yet it's often treated as a single, simple thing. Something to be managed, suppressed, or overcome.
The professionals working closest to it deserve better tools than that.

This July, we're running a five-day training in Coron Palawan dedicated entirely to the psychology and neuroscience behind impulsive behavior, what drives it, how it manifests, and what evidence-informed practice actually looks like.
20 APS-approved CPD hours. A small cohort. July 13-19, 2026.

For psychologists, psychiatrists, counselors, and allied healthcare professionals who want to understand impulsivity and not just manage it.

Message us to learn more
Or explore here: https://413zm1.share-na2.hsforms.com/2DdKXUx77SkG2innIQoTuew

30/05/2026

We may have been given a wrong frame for burnout.

Self-care. Bubble baths. Boundaries. The wellness industry has turned one of the most serious occupational health crises in the helping professions into a lifestyle conversation, and in doing so, has made it harder, not easier, for clinicians to take it seriously in themselves.

Burnout is now a clinical integrity issue.

When a practitioner is burned out, their empathy narrows. Their clinical judgment becomes less precise. Their capacity to hold complexity, the very thing that makes the therapeutic relationship work, diminishes. Research confirms that burnout severity is directly associated with decreased empathy-related brain activity. Patients feel it before the clinician names it.

This is not about needing a holiday. It is about the neurological cost of sustained depletion on the quality of care we deliver and on the career we are trying to build.

That reframe is where this training begins.

Holistic Recharge: A Burnout Prevention and Recovery Training
July 6–12, 2026 | Princesa Garden Resort, Coron Palawan
20 APS-Approved CPD Hours | Tax-deductible
Six nights' accommodation, all meals included
Partners and family are welcome to share your room

Message us to learn more
Or explore the training overview
here: https://413zm1.share-na2.hsforms.com/2XVyXsey6RtW2JvHPx06-4Q

— Dr. Yuliya Richard, PsyD | Eudora Retreats

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29/05/2026

Impulsivity is one of the most clinically misunderstood constructs I encounter in practice.

It tends to be treated as a symptom to be managed, a behaviour to be redirected, a deficit in inhibitory control and while that framing is not wrong, it is incomplete in ways that limit our clinical effectiveness.

What the neuroscience of the last decade has clarified is the interaction between inhibitory control and reward sensitivity and how that interaction shifts across different populations, presentations, and trauma histories.
When we understand impulsivity through that lens, the clinical picture changes.

The formulation becomes richer and the strategic management becomes more precise and more humane.

This is what the second Eudora retreat is built around.

The Psychology & Neuroscience of Impulsivity is a 5 days clinical intensive training designed for psychologists, counsellors, and allied health professionals who want to translate contemporary research into trauma-informed practice. And that happens to be in one of the most beautiful places in the world:
Palawan, Philippines. 13–19 July 2026.

25 APS-approved CPD hours — Event #25178.
Early bird rates open.

Register here: https://413zm1.share-na2.hsforms.com/2DdKXUx77SkG2innIQoTuew

28/05/2026

What if understanding impulsivity could change the way you support your clients forever?

We designed this training for the professionals who sit with complexity every day... psychologists, psychiatrists, mental health counselors, healthcare workers, and allied professionals.

Here's what 5 days in Coron Palawan will give you:

→ A neuroscience-backed framework for understanding impulsive behavior
→ Practical clinical tools to apply from day one
→ 20 APS-Approved CPD Hours (tax-deductible continuing professional development)
→ Meaningful connection with a community of like-minded practitioners
→ A world-class learning environment, overlooking one of the most beautiful island destinations in the Philippines

The Psychology & Neuroscience of Impulsivity
July 13–19, 2026 | Princesa Garden Resort, Coron Palawan

This is the kind of training that stays with you. Professionally and personally.

Message us to learn more or to register. Spots are limited.

28/05/2026

These are not the dramatic signs, they are the ones that get filed under “I’m just tired” or “it’s a busy season” for months, sometimes years.

1. You’re efficient, but not present. You’re still completing every task at full capacity, but you’re no longer truly inside any of them. You stopped caring about the outcome a while back, but haven’t had time to think about what that means.

2. Rest doesn’t restore you anymore, you take the weekend try to sleep in, but when Monday arrives it feels like the tank is at the same level it was on Friday.

That is a nervous system signal.

3. Your tolerance threshold has dropped, small things (an ambiguous email, a slight delay, an offhand comment) are landing harder than they used to. The nervous system under chronic stress has reduced capacity for tolerance. This is physiology, not personality.

4. You are performing wellness while depleted, you know the language. You recommend the practices to your clients, you are doing some of them, but from obligation rather than genuine restoration.

5. You are more afraid of stopping than you are tired of continuing.

The busyness is not just habit, it is a container. What’s underneath it is what the busyness keeps at bay.

If more than one of these feels familiar, this isn’t something to push through. It’s something to address properly.

I prepared the July training in Palawan, Phillipines from years of seeing what burnout actually does, to clinicians who keep going long past their limit. If you’re ready to step out of survival mode and do this work properly, message me. Early access and APS rates are still available.

Feel free to share this with a colleague and DM me to chat more about the retreat, early Bird is still open. APS Member rates are available.

27/05/2026

Free 1‑hour APS CPD‑approved webinar on burnout and sustainable professional practice (4 June, 5:30–6:30 pm AEST). Learn how burnout develops, why “high functioning” burnout is missed, and evidence‑informed strategies for recognition and recovery.

Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfs4ThqzTq0I5oZBATmsATljpowxY6OZHvOo2vlPV5ZH4dqjQ/viewform

26/05/2026

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25/05/2026

Feeling emotionally drained by your caseload, yet still pushing through for your clients?

You are not alone. A qualitative systematic review in Mental Health & Prevention found that psychological therapists describe burnout as having a significant impact on both their professional and personal lives, including reduced empathy, increased absenteeism, and elevated distress. Common contributing factors included emotional exhaustion, workload demands, over‑involvement with clients, and time pressure.

If you are a psychologist, counsellor, or therapist noticing these patterns in yourself, it may be time to prioritise structured, evidence‑informed recovery – not as a luxury, but as part of sustainable practice.

The Holistic Recharge Retreat in Palawan (6–12 July 2026) is a 5‑day CPD‑approved training program for mental health professionals focusing on burnout prevention and recovery, with 25 CPD hours assessed in accordance with APS Standards for CPD activities. The program integrates evidence‑based burnout frameworks with reflective practice, skills training, and guided wellness activities in a resort setting.

Key inclusions:

25 hours of APS CPD‑approved training

Focus on burnout prevention, recovery, and sustainable professional practice

Daily wellness and island‑based activities in a luxury resort environment

Hosted at Princesa Garden Island Resort, Palawan (6–12 July 2026)

For full program details, learning objectives, and pricing, visit the link in our bio or go to: bluehorizoncounselling.com.au/holistic-recharge-a-restorative-retreat-on-burnout-prevention-recovery

This activity is not an APS event; it is managed by Blue Horizon Counselling and has been assessed for CPD approval against APS Standards.