Embrace your authentic self.
Culturally sensitive, embodied therapy for a happier mind, body, and heart.
Welcome to Avalo Therapy + Wellness.
Happiness is an inside job. We’ve got this, together.
Welcome to Avalo Therapy + Wellness! We celebrate diversity and your unique, intersectional identity. We offer you a safe, inclusive sanctuary for self-discovery, healing, and personal growth. Experience our culturally sensitive, embodied therapy approach for a happier mind, body, and heart.
Whether you are seeking identity exploration, trauma healing or relationship improvement (and more), our trauma-informed, compassion-based care is tailored to your unique needs.
We offer specialized holistic and evidence-based therapies, including Somatic Therapy, Mindfulness Self-Compassion, Expressive Arts and EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing).
Your personal healing is key to collective liberation. Let’s do this, together.
We are:
- Multicultural
- Inclusive
- Trauma-informed
- Compassion-based
- Holistic + Scientific
- Somatic + Embodied
- Mindful
Meet Zoe, clinical counsellor and somatic therapist.
Zoe Ho, RCC, CCC, MACP
Registered Clinical Counsellor
Canadian Certified Counsellor
Hi, I’m Zoe Ho (she/her), a registered clinical counsellor (RCC, CCC) and founder of Avalo Therapy + Wellness. With over a decade of experience in somatic therapy and a master’s degree in Counselling Psychology, I help clients navigate life’s twists and turns with resilience, humour, and practical strategies.
As a first-generation immigrant, I’ve lived in Asia, Vancouver, and Canada’s Arctic, where amplifying Inuit voices deepened my empathy and cultural respect. Life’s challenges—including cancer, divorce, and PTSD—have shaped my trauma-informed, culturally sensitive approach. I provide an inclusive space for healing, growth, and celebrating your strengths.
I specialize in working with BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ communities, supporting identity exploration, relationship transitions, and sex-positive healing. Using somatic therapy, EMDR, expressive arts, and mindfulness self-compassion, I tailor therapy to your unique needs.
Outside the therapy room, I lead embodied-mindfulness workshops and psychoeducation sessions for organizations like Gallup Inc. and Google Asia. My work is grounded in compassion, creativity, and a belief that your personal healing contributes to collective liberation.
Let’s turn your challenges into growth—together. Book a free consultation or a full session below. I look forward to meeting you!
My Services
Areas of Focus
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Relationships
- Life Transitions
- Self-Esteem
- Self-Compassion
- Burnout & Stress
- BIPOC & Intergenerational Trauma
- LGBTQIA2S+
- Sexuality
- ADHD
- Cancer
- Chronic Illness
Open to supporting couples, families, LGBTQIA2S+, and open/polyamory/CNM relationships
Approach
My therapeutic approach is to welcome you into a safe space filled with warmth, respect, and non-judgement. Here you can feel unconditionally supported to explore your lived experiences, thoughts, and feelings.
Collaboratively, we will identify your needs and understand what blocks your authentic self-expression.
We will practice safe ways to attune to your body, to ease and regulate your challenging emotions and sensations.
You will gain insight from embodied approaches and evidence-based treatments that nurture mind-body healing. You will feel better resourced, increasing your confidence and capacity for connection.
In addition to traditional talk therapy, you will be supported by integrative and holistic therapies, including proven therapies for the safe processing of trauma. Modalities used include somatic therapy, mindfulness self-compassion, IFS (Internal Family Systems) as well as EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) and more.
Our Values
Integrative Embodied Approach
We provide trauma-informed, integrative therapy, including holistic and somatic approaches for mind-body connection. EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) helps to safely desensitize traumatic memories. We are experienced in treating PTSD, anxiety, depression, and/or other trauma-related symptoms.
Collaborative & Inclusive
We respect that each person’s identity is intersectional and unique. We provide a collaborative space where you can safely question and challenge how systemic, societal and cultural oppression impacts your sense of choice. We are sex and pleasure positive.
Strengths-based
We offer a strengths-based, non-judgemental approach. Mental health challenges are often rooted in internalized shame and blame. We support you to liberate such blocks, and to celebrate your strengths. You will gain clarity, self-compassion and insight.
Avalo Therapy + Wellness
© 2024 Zoe Ho