About Xin
Xin "Gloria" Guo is an AASW-accredited social worker with six years' practical experience supporting people through grief, trauma and major life changes. Gloria brings a calm, down-to-earth presence to sessions and works directly with clients to identify what matters most to them. She commonly helps with anxiety, depression, stress, sleep and eating concerns, and addiction-related difficulties.
Gloria also supports people dealing with attachment wounds, intimacy issues, relationship strain and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
Her approach includes attention to how the body holds stress and trauma as well as talk-based work. Gloria uses a mix of Somatic approaches, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Client-Centred principles to suit each person. She blends breathing, body awareness and movement when useful, alongside practical skills for managing difficult thoughts and emotions.
Sessions are paced to each client's comfort and goals. Her background includes training in trauma-sensitive yoga, chair yoga and meditation practices, which she sometimes weaves into sessions for clients who find embodied practices helpful. Gloria emphasises a strengths-based and trauma-informed stance in her work.
Sessions are offered in English and Mandarin and are available through online formats. People who choose Gloria can expect a collaborative process focused on realistic steps and improvements that fit their daily life.
How somatic and ACT approaches work in online therapy
Somatic Therapy pays attention to bodily sensations and movement as part of healing. It helps people notice where tension and stress show up in the body and learn gentle ways to regulate those sensations, which can reduce overwhelm and support recovery from trauma.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small, practical steps toward them. It teaches skills for noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, which can be useful for anxiety, depression and life transitions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options, try different techniques and tailor sessions to a client's goals and comfort. Decision-making is shared so that the chosen methods fit the person's needs and preferences.
Online therapy with Gloria uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. These formats let people attend from home, fit sessions around work and family, and use shorter check-ins when needed. Therapists who combine somatic and ACT work can adapt exercises for online delivery, guiding breath work, body awareness and practical skills in ways that suit each client.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Mandarin