About Xin
Xin "Gloria" Guo is an AASW-accredited social worker with six years' clinical experience. She offers calm, practical support for people dealing with anxiety, stress, grief and trauma. Gloria speaks English and Mandarin and aims to make sessions easy to follow for worried parents and busy adults.
Gloria uses a person-centred style that focuses on the individual's strengths. She listens first, then helps people set clear goals and small steps they can try between sessions.
Background and approach
Her work is grounded in everyday language rather than jargon so clients can use new skills straight away. Her background includes substantial work with people affected by loss, acute and chronic trauma, childhood trauma, sexual assault and attachment difficulties. That experience shapes how she approaches safety and pacing in therapy, especially when memories or strong emotions come up.
Gloria draws on a mix of well-known approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy. She blends these frameworks to match each person's needs rather than following a fixed recipe. Outside the consulting room she brings embodied practices into her work, including yoga-informed breathing and relaxation methods.
These tools are offered as options to help with sleep, calming the body and building resilience between sessions. Gloria aims to create a steady, respectful space where people feel heard and can take practical steps forward. She guides conversations so worries become manageable tasks rather than overwhelming problems.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress and life changes because it focuses on meaningful steps rather than getting rid of every worry. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, sleeping problems and low mood. Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) offers skills for managing strong emotions and improving coping; it can help with anger, intense distress and relationship difficulties.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, try methods that suit those aims, and adjust the plan over time. Clients can expect a mix of talking, skill practice and small tasks to do between sessions so progress is steady and measurable.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls let people read facial cues and have fuller conversations. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a lunch break. Live chat and messaging work well for brief check-ins or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to keep regular sessions, practise skills between appointments and access support from different locations.
Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does Gloria help with?
What is her general therapy style?
How much experience does she have?
What credentials and location are listed?
Which languages are offered and can international clients join?
What session formats are available?
How are costs handled?
How do I begin working with Gloria?
What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- 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
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.