About Xin
Xin "Gloria" Guo is an AASW-accredited social worker with six years of clinical experience in Australia. She offers individual counselling for people dealing with grief, trauma, anxiety and life changes. Gloria speaks English and Mandarin and focuses on building a steady, respectful relationship with each client.
Gloria takes a person-centred approach in sessions. She listens first, then helps people identify small, practical steps they can try between meetings. Sessions are aimed at helping people manage stress, improve sleep and cope with loss or difficult events.
How Xin works
Her work includes care for people who have experienced childhood trauma, sexual assault, or chronic and acute trauma. Gloria also supports those facing compassion fatigue, caregiving stress, chronic illness and serious health challenges. She helps with relationship and intimacy-related concerns as well as body image and eating difficulties.
Gloria uses a mix of approaches that fit each person’s goals. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) and client-centred practice. She adapts these methods to match what the person finds most helpful in daily life.
Her style is calm and strength-based. Sessions tend to be collaborative and practical, with a focus on small changes that reduce distress. People who want a clear, compassionate counsellor for ongoing challenges often find this approach useful.
Xin lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
- 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
What Xin works with
The areas below are the ones Xin selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
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
Training and background
| Register | AASW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English, Mandarin |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Australia |
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Online support options
How Gloria uses therapy approaches online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings while taking actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression and major life changes because it focuses on living a meaningful life despite difficulty.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours. It teaches practical skills for reducing unhelpful thinking patterns and changing behaviours that keep problems going, which can help with sleep, anxiety and low mood.
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) offers skills for emotional regulation, distress tolerance and clearer communication. These tools can be helpful for intense emotions, relationship strain and managing strong urges or impulses.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Gloria works together with each person to decide which methods feel most useful. She adjusts the plan based on a person’s goals, preferences and what actually helps in day-to-day life.
Online sessions give practical flexibility. Video calls let the therapist and client use visual cues for emotional work. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging suit short check-ins, skills practice and people who prefer writing. Together these options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving or health routines.
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