Xin "Gloria" Guo, AASW

Xin "Gloria" Guo is an AASW accredited social worker with six years' experience in Australia. She provides individual counselling for people facing grief, trauma, relationship and attachment difficulties. She also works with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions and codependency concerns.

Gloria's background includes work with people affected by acute and chronic trauma, childhood abuse and sexual assault. She has used a range of therapeutic approaches while supporting clients through loss and difficult life changes. She also brings body-based practices into her work, including chair yoga and trauma-sensitive yoga training.

Her counselling style is person-centred and strength-based. Sessions tend to focus on what a person wants to change and the practical steps that can help. She pays attention to how past attachment patterns show up in current relationships and coping styles.

Gloria uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy alongside Dialectical Behaviour Therapy skills and existential ideas when they fit a person's goals. She may combine talking work with breathing and gentle movement exercises learned in her yoga training.

Sessions are offered in English and Mandarin. Gloria asks people to be clear about their goals in early sessions so the focus can be kept practical. She invites straightforward conversations about boundaries, people-pleasing, setting limits and rebuilding a sense of identity after loss or controlling relationships.

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