Xin "Gloria" Guo , AASW

Xin "Gloria" Guo is a social worker with a Master of Social Work (MSW) and accreditation from the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW), which recognises her as an accredited social worker in Australia. She brings extensive experience providing individual counselling and family therapy for people affected by grief and loss, acute and chronic trauma, childhood trauma, sexual assault, and attachment-related difficulties. Her clinical work also addresses a broad range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, addiction, eating and sleeping difficulties, and compassion fatigue.

Gloria has trained across a wide spectrum of therapeutic modalities, including Gottman Couple Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR), Internal Family Systems (IFS), and somatic approaches to psychological healing. Alongside psychotherapy training she has completed body-based and mindfulness-oriented teacher trainings - including a 200 RYT certification and trauma-sensitive and compassion-focused yoga therapy trainings - informing her integrated, embodied approach to recovery.

Her style is person-centred, strength-based, and trauma-informed, with an emphasis on building a collaborative therapeutic relationship that honours each personâs experience and resilience. Gloria values paced, empathic work that aims to restore agency, improve coping with life changes, and support meaningful connection in relationships.