About Xin
Xin "Gloria" Guo is an AASW accredited social worker with six years of clinical experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, grief, trauma and many life changes. Gloria speaks English and Mandarin and offers sessions in Australia.
Gloria keeps sessions simple and practical. She listens first, then helps people identify small, workable steps. Conversations often cover coping skills for panic, sleep problems, low mood, relationship strain and caring for others under pressure.
Background and approach
Her approach is person-centred and trauma-aware. She aims to create calm in the room and to help people notice what matters to them. Goal setting and everyday routines are common parts of the work.
Gloria draws on gentle, evidence-based tools such as acceptance and commitment ideas, cognitive strategies, and dialectical behaviour techniques. She also uses client-centred conversations to explore values and meaning when people face loss or big changes. Sessions can include talk therapy alongside grounding or breath-based practices from her yoga and trauma-sensitive training.
People often use these strategies to manage anxiety, compulsive behaviours, overwhelmed feelings or ongoing stress. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions. Gloria frames therapy as collaborative and practical, focusing on steps that make daily life feel more manageable.
How Gloria uses therapy approaches online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) invites people to clarify what matters most and to take small actions in that direction. It can help with anxiety, avoidance and feeling stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on practical skills to spot unhelpful thoughts and change unhelpful behaviours, which often eases panic, low mood and sleep problems. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers straightforward skills for managing strong emotions, improving interpersonal boundaries and reducing impulsive reactions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Gloria will discuss different methods in early sessions and collaborate with each person to tailor techniques to their needs and goals. The therapeutic plan can change as progress is made or new priorities emerge.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls suit deeper conversations where seeing facial cues helps. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for ongoing check-ins or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to use therapy around work, family or other commitments while still practising the tools discussed in sessions.
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What this therapist works with
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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
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