Yulia Furlong Verified listing

Wexford Psychiatry is now closed.  The old email system bounces, website is down and phone number is no longer in use.

Yulia Furlong is now available at the Beacon Clinic in Subiaco.  I am not aware of a website or any further information than the below:

Email: reception@beaconclinic.com.au

Phone: 0411 894 722

The Beacon Clinic

The Beacon Clinic is a medical day clinic providing advanced, evidence-informed care to children, adolescents and adults with complex neurodevelopmental needs.

Located in Subiaco, Western Australia, our clinic offers a highly structured, interdisciplinary service that integrates psychiatric, nursing, and allied health perspectives in a seamless and holistic framework.

Central to our mission is the delivery of timely and accurate diagnostic clarification, followed by tailored treatment pathways that support each child’s functional, emotional, and developmental potential.

Our assessment and treatment model is anchored in the latest clinical research, reflecting an appreciation of the multifactorial nature of developmental presentations

About Dr Furlong

Associate Professor Yulia Furlong is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and one of the founding Director of The Beacon Clinic, a professorial day clinic in Subiaco, Western Australia, providing advanced diagnostic and therapeutic services for young people with complex neurodevelopmental and psychiatric conditions. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Western Australia (UWA), where she contributes to postgraduate teaching, clinical training, and supervision of research candidates.

With a career spanning clinical leadership, academic scholarship, and system-level advisory roles, A/Prof Furlong is known for her expertise in complex ADHD, autism spectrum disorder, Tourette’s syndrome, paediatric psychopharmacology, and genomics-informed prescribing. She chairs the WA Psychotropic Medication Expert Group and has contributed to several national and state committees focused on clinical excellence, service innovation, and safe prescribing in youth psychiatry.

A/Prof Furlong holds Fellowship of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) and Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (UK). She is an accredited member of the WA Faculty of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

She earned her Doctorate in Psychiatry from University College Cork (UCC), Ireland, in 2009. Her doctoral research explored the psychiatric comorbidities of chronic illness within hospital liaison settings and led to publications in peer-reviewed journals, as well as a chapter in “Rheumatoid Arthritis” (Lemmey A., 2011).

A passionate educator, A/Prof Furlong also completed a Graduate Diploma in University Teaching and Learning at University College Dublin. At UWA, she supervises medical students, paediatric and psychiatry registrars, advanced trainees, and PhD students. She is regularly invited to examine and review clinical training programs and has contributed to the development of interprofessional curricula in child and adolescent mental health.

Her academic contributions include chapters in the Oxford Textbook of Neuropsychiatry, where she has authored content on ADHD, Tourette’s syndrome, Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, and the neuropsychiatric sequelae of paediatric brain tumours. She is also a contributor to “Brain Tumour” (Agrawal A., 2018) and “Autism Spectrum Disorder – Profile, Heterogeneity, Neurobiology and Intervention” (Fitzgerald M., 2021).

Her current clinical and research interests include:

• Neurodevelopmental psychiatry across childhood and adolescence

• Integration of genomics in psychopharmacology

• Service reform in youth mental health

• Translational models of interdisciplinary care

Associate Professor Furlong is committed to delivering culturally responsive, trauma-informed, and evidence-based psychiatric care that promotes recovery, resilience, and systemic inclusion for all children and adolescents.