Blue Horizon Counselling

Blue Horizon Counselling Whatever issues stand in your way, we can work with you to help you to achieve your therapeutic goals. www.bluehorizoncounselling.com.au

Join our week‑long luxury retreat 🌊✨ and earn 25 CPD points while restoring balance.
πŸ‘‰ Register here: https://413zm1.share-na2.hsforms.com/2NuFLx2RSQgi8qGqVQPrL0w With years of experience, our specialised focus is in:

β€’ Anger management
β€’ Depression and Anxiety treatment
β€’ Trauma counselling (including abuse and trauma that happened a long time ago)
β€’ Personal development
β€’ Stress management
β€’ Grief and Loss counselling
β€’ Dysfunctional Impulsivity management
β€’ Addictive Behaviours management (Drug and Alcohol)
β€’ Relationship counselling (Couples and Marriage)

Dr Yuliya Richard is a clinical psychologist at Blue Horizon Counselling, a psychologist centre in Sydney, Australia.

Why weekends don’t fix burnout ✨Most people think burnout is solved by time off.But burnout doesn’t live in your calenda...
06/01/2026

Why weekends don’t fix burnout ✨

Most people think burnout is solved by time off.
But burnout doesn’t live in your calendar, it lives in your nervous system.

Weekends usually interrupt stress.
They don’t resolve it.

Burnout happens when stress is chronic, relational, and responsibility-laden. A weekend doesn’t change the conditions that created it.

Because rest without containment is just a pause.
Recovery requires something different.

Holistic Recharge: A Restorative Luxury Retreat for Helping Professionals

Real recovery doesn’t come from squeezing rest into life.It comes from stepping into conditions where your nervous syste...
06/01/2026

Real recovery doesn’t come from squeezing rest into life.
It comes from stepping into conditions where your nervous system can finally stand down.

That’s what this retreat was designed to offer.

A slower, trustworthy pace.
Clear boundaries around responsibility.
Learning that fits inside restoration β€” not on top of it.

Held by place as much as by structure β€”
by ocean air, unhurried days, and time away in Bali.

Some time away pauses the noise.
Other spaces allow the body to actually reset.

This is the second kind.

Bali, April this year🌿

05/01/2026

Do you ever feel selfish when you prioritize yourself?

You already know what burnout is.You’ve likely read the research, attended the trainings, and supported others through i...
05/01/2026

You already know what burnout is.
You’ve likely read the research, attended the trainings, and supported others through it.

What’s often missing is the opportunity to recover properly❗️

π‘―π’π’π’Šπ’”π’•π’Šπ’„ π‘Ήπ’†π’„π’‰π’‚π’“π’ˆπ’† π’Šπ’” 𝒂 π’”π’Šπ’™-π’π’Šπ’ˆπ’‰π’•, π’‘π’“π’π’‡π’†π’”π’”π’Šπ’π’π’‚π’π’π’š π’ˆπ’–π’Šπ’…π’†π’… 𝒃𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒐𝒖𝒕 π’“π’†π’„π’π’—π’†π’“π’š 𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕 π’Šπ’ π‘©π’‚π’π’Š 𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅 π’”π’‘π’†π’„π’Šπ’‡π’Šπ’„π’‚π’π’π’š 𝒇𝒐𝒓 π’‘π’”π’šπ’„π’‰π’π’π’π’ˆπ’Šπ’”π’•π’”, 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒔, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 π’‰π’†π’π’‘π’Šπ’π’ˆ π’‘π’“π’π’‡π’†π’”π’”π’Šπ’π’π’‚π’π’”.

This is not a wellness escape.
It’s a contained experience designed to restore nervous system regulation, capacity, and professional longevity.

πŸ’š Across April 17–23, participants complete 25 APS-approved CPD hours while their system is supported to slow down, soften, and recover. Learning and restoration happen together β€” rather than competing for time and energy πŸ’š

There is space to move slowly.
To swim.
To replenish.
To savor unhurried days

If you’re highly capable but quietly depleted, this was designed with you in mind.

πŸ“ Bali
πŸ—“ April 17–23, 2026
πŸ”— Learn more or join the event (https://www.facebook.com/share/188TCpXaMM/)

Bottling emotions doesn’t make them go away.It makes the nervous system work harder.When emotions are consistently suppr...
04/01/2026

Bottling emotions doesn’t make them go away.
It makes the nervous system work harder.

When emotions are consistently suppressed, the body remains in a state of internal vigilance β€” managing unexpressed feelings while still meeting daily demands. Over time, this can lead to increased stress, fatigue, irritability, and physical tension.

Emotion expression doesn’t mean losing control.
It means allowing feelings to move through the system instead of being stored inside it.

In therapy, we focus on creating safe, contained ways to notice, name, and process emotions β€” so the body no longer has to carry them alone.

Support is not weakness.
It’s regulation.

Burnout is often discussed as a single experience, but in practice it shows up in different patterns.🩡Some professionals...
04/01/2026

Burnout is often discussed as a single experience, but in practice it shows up in different patterns.

🩡Some professionals respond to chronic stress by pushing harder (frenetic burnout).
🩡Others disengage when work lacks meaning or stimulation (under-challenged burnout).
🩡 Others gradually withdraw after prolonged strain and low control (worn-out burnout).

These are not character flaws β€” they are adaptive nervous system responses to prolonged stress and unmet recovery. Understanding the pattern matters, because it changes how we respond.

This is the kind of work we’re holding space for together in Bali πŸƒ
Holistic Recharge: A Restorative Luxury Retreat for Helping Professionals

Burnout often hides behind professionalism, responsibility, and β€œjust one more thing.”Noticing it is a form of care.We’l...
03/01/2026

Burnout often hides behind professionalism, responsibility, and β€œjust one more thing.”
Noticing it is a form of care.

We’ll be practicing this kind of rest together in Bali, April 17–23.

Holistic Recharge: A Restorative Luxury Retreat for Helping Professionals ✨

Burnout happens when stress never fully switches off.Many high-performing people rest just enough to return to the same ...
02/01/2026

Burnout happens when stress never fully switches off.

Many high-performing people rest just enough to return to the same pace, the same demands, the same internal pressure.

Recovery needs more than time off, it needs interruption.

April 17-23 | Bali, Indonesia πŸ‚

One of our people went home for the New YearAfter a year that asked more from her than she knew how to give β€” her first ...
02/01/2026

One of our people went home for the New Year

After a year that asked more from her than she knew how to give β€” her first year of independence β€” she found herself reaching for things that helped her cope. Losing focus. Feeling overwhelmed by her emotions. Struggling with food. Some days felt confusing. Some nights felt lonely.

In the middle of that season, she found the Impulsivity Project under Blue Horizon Counselling. Not as a miracle fix, but as a place where things finally made sense. Where she wasn’t labeled as broken β€” just someone learning skills she was never taught. Little by little, she learned how to pause. How to understand her impulses. How to be gentler with herself.

What stayed with us most was what followed.
She didn’t keep the healing quiet. She reached out. She wanted to work with us β€” to help spread the message that impulsivity can be met with care, structure, and compassion.

Now she’s back in her hometown in the Philippines, welcoming the New Year where so many of her patterns first began. Not to relive the past β€” but to return differently. With awareness. With intention. With a quiet promise to depower unhealthy habits and be part of healing that reaches beyond just her own life.

This is what we mean when we say one of our people.
And if parts of her story feel familiar, we are here for you too πŸ’¬

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