Clinical Perspectives on Impulsivity
Integrating neuroscience, psychology, and practical intervention strategies
APS-Approved · 20 CPD Points · Palawan, Philippines · 13–19 July 2026
July 13–19, 2026 · Princesa Garden Island Resort & Spa, Palawan, Philippines
The Psychology & Neuroscience of Impulsivity
A five-day immersive clinical training for clinicians who want a precise, neurobiologically grounded understanding of impulsivity and the practical frameworks to apply it across binge eating, addiction, and complex clinical presentations.
Who it’s for
Built for clinicians who work at depth.
This training retreat is for psychologists, counsellors, social workers, coaches, nurses, occupational therapists, somatic therapists, wellbeing practitioners, support workers, and anyone working in a helping role — who regularly encounter impulsivity-driven presentations and want more than a surface-level understanding of what’s driving the behaviour.
If you work with clients experiencing binge eating, binge drinking, addiction, emotional dysregulation, or impulsive patterns across everyday life, this programme will give you the conceptual precision and applied tools to work with those presentations more effectively.
This training is designed to move you meaningfully forward in how you understand and respond to impulsivity in practice — as well as reducing premature termination of treatment by your clients.
What you'll leave with
This is not simply a week away. It is a carefully structured experience designed to help you understand burnout more deeply, recover more intentionally, and return to your work with greater clarity, sustainability, and connection.
01. A Working, Precise Understanding of Impulsivity Across Its Dimensions
Move beyond general familiarity into a model-grounded, neurobiologically integrated understanding of impulsivity — including the UPPS-P framework, delay discounting, behavioural activation and inhibition, and the role of the orbitofrontal cortex and neurotransmitter systems. You’ll understand not just what impulsivity is, but how it operates differently across presentations.
02. Frameworks You Can Apply the Week You Return
Each day moves between teaching, applied discussion, and case-based reflection. The programme is structured around use, not just comprehension — so you’ll leave with conceptual tools you’ve already begun to apply, not a folder of slides to revisit later.
03. Clarity Across the Most Common Impulsivity-Related Presentations
You’ll work through how impulsivity functions in binge eating, binge drinking, substance and behavioural addiction, anxiety, and a range of everyday contexts — giving you a coherent lens across presentations that often look different but share underlying mechanisms.
04. A Small Cohort of Peers Working at the Same Level
The group is deliberately small. You’ll spend six days alongside a focused cohort of helping professionals moving through the same material — with enough time between sessions for real conversation, reflection, and the kind of collegial connection that rarely happens at conferences.
Structured to support serious learning
Six days in Palawan
Palawan is consistently ranked among the world’s most beautiful islands. The setting is not incidental — it’s chosen to give you the conditions to actually think: quiet mornings, an unhurried pace, and physical distance from the demands of your practice.
Each day follows a rhythm: structured training sessions in the morning and early afternoon, with time in the late afternoon to rest, walk the beach, or decompress before dinner. Evenings are unscheduled. There is no pressure to be on.
To support your arrival and transition into the training environment, a complimentary massage is included as part of your welcome experience on day one.
Your partner is welcome to join you for the week at no additional accommodation cost — they will have full access to the resort and all its surrounds while you’re in training.
Everything is taken care of
Your registration covers six nights’ accommodation and all meals at Princesa Garden Island Resort & Spa — a quiet, beachfront property chosen for its calm and its proximity to Palawan’s natural environment. You arrive, you focus, everything else is handled.
Your facilitator.
Dr. Yuliya Richard, PsyD
Clinical Psychologist · Founder, Eudora · Founder, Blue Horizon Counselling & Mediation · APS Associate Member
Dr. Richard has spent over fifteen years working at the intersection of burnout, chronic stress, and professional sustainability. She has developed clinical programmes targeting burnout recovery across the helping professions, and brings to this training retreat both the rigour of a practitioner-researcher and the understanding of someone who has spent fifteen years sitting with the people this work costs the most.
15+ Years Experience
Working across burnout, impulsivity, trauma, and professional sustainability.
International Perspective
Integrating clinical insight shaped across Ukraine, Germany, and Australia.
Programme
Six days of content. One coherent framework
Each day builds on the last. By the end of the week, you’ll have a unified, neurobiologically grounded model of impulsivity that holds together across the presentations you encounter in practice.
ARRIVAL & CHECK-IN
Participant arrival, registration, and welcome at Princesa Garden Island Resort & Spa. Your complimentary arrival massage is available from check-in.
Day 1
Foundations of Impulsivity
The conceptual and neurobiological foundations of the retreat. You will work through the COR and JDR models, the Maslach Burnout Inventory as a reflective tool, and the physiological and psychological mechanisms that make burnout both invisible and self-perpetuating. What depletion actually looks like in the nervous system — and why knowing this matters.
Day 2
Impulsivity in Binge Eating
A clinical and functional understanding of binge eating: emotional eating mechanisms, impulsive predispositions (urgency, lack of premeditation, delay discounting), and the neurobiological and psychological drivers of disordered eating. Practical application to assessment and case conceptualisation.
Day 3
Impulsivity in Binge Drinking
Biopsychosocial and developmental factors in binge drinking, including neurocognitive deficits, emotional regulation processes, and assessment frameworks for alcohol use disorder. The role of impulsivity across severity levels.
Day 4
Impulsivity in Addiction & Behavioural Patterns
Addiction models including opponent-process, incentive-sensitisation, and habit/compulsion. Impulsivity as a core mechanism across substance, behavioural, and technology-related addictions, with attention to links between impulsivity, adversity, and suicidality.
Day 5
Impulsivity Across Clinical & Everyday Contexts
Impulsivity in anxiety, stress, and clinical conditions, as well as its role in everyday behaviours — buying, gambling, sexual behaviour, aggression, and risk-related actions. Integration across the week through applied exercises and case-based discussion.
Accreditation
Formally recognised professional development
This programme is APS-approved and structured to meet Continuing Professional Development requirements. You will receive formal documentation of 20 CPD hours on completion.
The programme integrates evidence-informed theory, applied clinical content, and structured reflection — meeting the criteria for substantive professional development, not just attendance hours.
Supported by the Australian Psychological Society, the Impulsivity Research Institute, and Blue Horizon Counselling & Mediation.
Pricing & Registration
Reserve your place
Places are limited to maintain the cohort size that makes this format work. If you are considering attending, registering early is recommended — both to secure your spot and to access the early-bird rate.
All rates are per person in AUD and cover the full programme: 25 hours of APS-approved professional development, six nights’ accommodation, and all meals. Your partner may share accommodation at no additional cost (meals and incidentals for partners are not included).
Places are limited to maintain the cohort size that makes this format work. If you are considering attending, registering early is recommended — both to secure your spot and to access the early-bird rate.
All rates are per person in AUD and cover the full programme: 25 hours of APS-approved professional development, six nights’ accommodation, and all meals. Your partner may share accommodation at no additional cost (meals and incidentals for partners are not included).
APS Member Early Bird
APS Member-
5-Day Clinical Training Program
-
APS-Approved CPD Points
-
Accommodation & Daily Breakfast
APS Member Regular
APS Member-
5-Day Clinical Training Program
-
APS-Approved CPD Points
-
Accommodation & Daily Breakfast
Non-APS Member Early Bird
Non-APS Member-
5-Day Clinical Training Program
-
Certificate of Completion
-
Accommodation & Daily Breakfast
Non-APS Member Regular
Non - APS Member-
5-Day Clinical Training Program
-
Certificate of Completion
-
Accommodation & Daily Breakfast
Location
Princesa Garden Island Resort & Spa
Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Philippines
Palawan has been named the world’s best island multiple times. Puerto Princesa is a short direct flight from Manila, with connections available from major Australian cities. The resort sits on a quiet stretch of beachfront, away from the busier tourist areas — chosen deliberately for the atmosphere it creates.
Questions before you register?
If you would like to talk through whether this training retreat is right for you, or have questions about travel, accommodation, or the programme, Dr. Richard is happy to hear from you directly.
Clinical Perspectives on Impulsivity
Integrating neuroscience, psychology, and practical intervention strategies
APS-Approved · 20 CPD Points · Palawan, Philippines · 13–19 July 2026
July 13–19, 2026 · Princesa Garden Island Resort & Spa, Palawan, Philippines
The Psychology & Neuroscience of Impulsivity
A five-day immersive clinical training for clinicians who want a precise, neurobiologically grounded understanding of impulsivity and the practical frameworks to apply it across binge eating, addiction, and complex clinical presentations.
Who it’s for
Built for clinicians who work at depth.
This training retreat is for psychologists, counsellors, social workers, coaches, nurses, occupational therapists, somatic therapists, wellbeing practitioners, support workers, and anyone working in a helping role — who regularly encounter impulsivity-driven presentations and want more than a surface-level understanding of what’s driving the behaviour.
If you work with clients experiencing binge eating, binge drinking, addiction, emotional dysregulation, or impulsive patterns across everyday life, this programme will give you the conceptual precision and applied tools to work with those presentations more effectively.
This training is designed to move you meaningfully forward in how you understand and respond to impulsivity in practice — as well as reducing premature termination of treatment by your clients.
What you'll leave with
This is not simply a week away. It is a carefully structured experience designed to help you understand burnout more deeply, recover more intentionally, and return to your work with greater clarity, sustainability, and connection.
01. A Working, Precise Understanding of Impulsivity Across Its Dimensions
Move beyond general familiarity into a model-grounded, neurobiologically integrated understanding of impulsivity — including the UPPS-P framework, delay discounting, behavioural activation and inhibition, and the role of the orbitofrontal cortex and neurotransmitter systems. You’ll understand not just what impulsivity is, but how it operates differently across presentations.
02. Frameworks You Can Apply the Week You Return
Each day moves between teaching, applied discussion, and case-based reflection. The programme is structured around use, not just comprehension — so you’ll leave with conceptual tools you’ve already begun to apply, not a folder of slides to revisit later.
03. Clarity Across the Most Common Impulsivity-Related Presentations
You’ll work through how impulsivity functions in binge eating, binge drinking, substance and behavioural addiction, anxiety, and a range of everyday contexts — giving you a coherent lens across presentations that often look different but share underlying mechanisms.
04. A Small Cohort of Peers Working at the Same Level
The group is deliberately small. You’ll spend six days alongside a focused cohort of helping professionals moving through the same material — with enough time between sessions for real conversation, reflection, and the kind of collegial connection that rarely happens at conferences.
Structured to support serious learning
Six days in Palawan
Palawan is consistently ranked among the world’s most beautiful islands. The setting is not incidental — it’s chosen to give you the conditions to actually think: quiet mornings, an unhurried pace, and physical distance from the demands of your practice.
Each day follows a rhythm: structured training sessions in the morning and early afternoon, with time in the late afternoon to rest, walk the beach, or decompress before dinner. Evenings are unscheduled. There is no pressure to be on.
To support your arrival and transition into the training environment, a complimentary massage is included as part of your welcome experience on day one.
Your partner is welcome to join you for the week at no additional accommodation cost — they will have full access to the resort and all its surrounds while you’re in training.
Everything is taken care of
Your registration covers six nights’ accommodation and all meals at Princesa Garden Island Resort & Spa — a quiet, beachfront property chosen for its calm and its proximity to Palawan’s natural environment. You arrive, you focus, everything else is handled.
Your facilitator.
Dr. Yuliya Richard, PsyD
Clinical Psychologist · Founder, Eudora · Founder, Blue Horizon Counselling & Mediation · APS Associate Member
Dr. Richard has spent over fifteen years working at the intersection of burnout, chronic stress, and professional sustainability. She has developed clinical programmes targeting burnout recovery across the helping professions, and brings to this training retreat both the rigour of a practitioner-researcher and the understanding of someone who has spent fifteen years sitting with the people this work costs the most.
15+ Years Experience
Working across burnout, impulsivity, trauma, and professional sustainability.
International Perspective
Integrating clinical insight shaped across Ukraine, Germany, and Australia.
Programme
Six days of content. One coherent framework
Each day builds on the last. By the end of the week, you’ll have a unified, neurobiologically grounded model of impulsivity that holds together across the presentations you encounter in practice.
ARRIVAL & CHECK-IN
Participant arrival, registration, and welcome at Princesa Garden Island Resort & Spa. Your complimentary arrival massage is available from check-in.
Day 1
Foundations of Impulsivity
The conceptual and neurobiological foundations of the retreat. You will work through the COR and JDR models, the Maslach Burnout Inventory as a reflective tool, and the physiological and psychological mechanisms that make burnout both invisible and self-perpetuating. What depletion actually looks like in the nervous system — and why knowing this matters.
Day 2
Impulsivity in Binge Eating
A clinical and functional understanding of binge eating: emotional eating mechanisms, impulsive predispositions (urgency, lack of premeditation, delay discounting), and the neurobiological and psychological drivers of disordered eating. Practical application to assessment and case conceptualisation.
Day 3
Impulsivity in Binge Drinking
Biopsychosocial and developmental factors in binge drinking, including neurocognitive deficits, emotional regulation processes, and assessment frameworks for alcohol use disorder. The role of impulsivity across severity levels.
Day 4
Impulsivity in Addiction & Behavioural Patterns
Addiction models including opponent-process, incentive-sensitisation, and habit/compulsion. Impulsivity as a core mechanism across substance, behavioural, and technology-related addictions, with attention to links between impulsivity, adversity, and suicidality.
Day 5
Impulsivity Across Clinical & Everyday Contexts
Impulsivity in anxiety, stress, and clinical conditions, as well as its role in everyday behaviours — buying, gambling, sexual behaviour, aggression, and risk-related actions. Integration across the week through applied exercises and case-based discussion.
Accreditation
Formally recognised professional development
This programme is APS-approved and structured to meet Continuing Professional Development requirements. You will receive formal documentation of 20 CPD hours on completion.
The programme integrates evidence-informed theory, applied clinical content, and structured reflection — meeting the criteria for substantive professional development, not just attendance hours.
Supported by the Australian Psychological Society, the Impulsivity Research Institute, and Blue Horizon Counselling & Mediation.
Reserve your place
Places are limited to maintain the cohort size that makes this format work. If you are considering attending, registering early is recommended — both to secure your spot and to access the early-bird rate.
All rates are per person in AUD and cover the full programme: 25 hours of APS-approved professional development, six nights’ accommodation, and all meals. Your partner may share accommodation at no additional cost (meals and incidentals for partners are not included).
Places are limited to maintain the cohort size that makes this format work. If you are considering attending, registering early is recommended — both to secure your spot and to access the early-bird rate.
All rates are per person in AUD and cover the full programme: 25 hours of APS-approved professional development, six nights’ accommodation, and all meals. Your partner may share accommodation at no additional cost (meals and incidentals for partners are not included).
APS Member Early Bird
APS Member-
5-Day Clinical Training Program
-
APS-Approved CPD Points
-
Accommodation & Daily Breakfast
APS Member Regular
APS Member-
5-Day Clinical Training Program
-
APS-Approved CPD Points
-
Accommodation & Daily Breakfast
Non-APS Member Early Bird
Non-APS Member-
5-Day Clinical Training Program
-
Certificate of Completion
-
Accommodation & Daily Breakfast
Non-APS Member Regular
Non - APS Member-
5-Day Clinical Training Program
-
Certificate of Completion
-
Accommodation & Daily Breakfast
Location
Princesa Garden Island Resort & Spa
Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Philippines
Palawan has been named the world’s best island multiple times. Puerto Princesa is a short direct flight from Manila, with connections available from major Australian cities. The resort sits on a quiet stretch of beachfront, away from the busier tourist areas — chosen deliberately for the atmosphere it creates.
Questions before you register?
If you would like to talk through whether this training retreat is right for you, or have questions about travel, accommodation, or the programme, Dr. Richard is happy to hear from you directly.