Love yourself, just as you are.
Reconnect to joy. Restore balance. Liberate self-love.
Zoe Ho, RCC, CCC, MACP
Registered Clinical Counsellor
Canadian Certified Counsellor
Meet Zoe Ho, Registered Clinical Counsellor and Somatic Therapist.
Hi, my name is Zoe Ho (she/her), I am a registered clinical counsellor (RCC) and founder of Avalo Therapy + Wellness. As well, I have over ten year’s experience in yoga and somatic therapy.
I am a first-generation immigrant, storyteller and artist. I have lived in Asia, Vancouver and Canada’s Arctic, where I worked to bring powerful Indigenous voices to print and broadcast media.
I was privileged to interview Inuvialuit (Inuit) elders, leaders, and youth. This taught me deep empathy, listening, and cultural respect. It propelled my journey to become a somatic therapist, followed by a master’s in Counselling Psychology at Yorkville University. In between, I survived cancer, divorce, and marginalization trauma.
While life has certainly been a wild ride, I am grateful for the resilience I have gained, along with the healing tools of embodiment, mindfulness, and self-compassion. I now infuse these ingredients into my evidence-based work with clients.
Each healing journey is unique. I am deeply moved to walk alongside as an ally and guide, supporting clients to reclaim their sense of joy, identity and direction.
I provide trauma-informed somatic therapy for life/relationship transitions, cancer, LGBTQIA+, and BIPOC concerns, with a focus on attachment issues, anxiety, and grief.
I am an advocate for creativity and sex-positivity, and often use expressive arts techniques to help clients liberate their self-expression.
Outside of private practice, I am an experienced facilitator of embodied-mindfulness and psychoeducation workshops for national cancer support organizations. This includes corporate clients such as Gallup Inc., and Google Asia.
Click below to book a free consultation or session. I look forward to meeting you!
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
Therapy 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.
Methods
Integrative treatment modalities include:
♦ Sensorimotor/ Somatic Therapy
♦ EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing)
♦ Mindfulness-based Self-Compassion
♦ Internal Family Systems
♦ Trauma Informed Stabilization Treatment
♦ CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy)
♦ EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy)
Book a free consultation or a full session to get started.
Education
& Training
// Yorkville University
Master’s Degree in Counselling Psychology
// University of British Columbia
Bachelor’s Degree in English Literature
// EMDR: Integrating EMDR into
your Clinical Practice
EMDR Consulting (EMDRIA Approved)
// Pat Ogden’s Complex Trauma Master Class
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy in Action
// PESI
Janina Fisher’s Trauma Treatment Certification Training
// PESI
Treating Complex Trauma with Internal Family Systems
// Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy
600 Hr Somatic Yoga Therapy Certification
// University of British Columbia
Solutions Focused Brief Therapy Intro
// Como Shambhala Singapore
E-RYT 500 Hr Yoga Teacher Training
The Story of Avalo
Avalokiteshvara in Kannon form.
Japan,
Modern compassion-based therapy draws from mindfulness traditions, which since ancient times have helped us to savour the joys of life, and navigate the challenges of being human.
‘Avalo’ is inspired by ‘Avalokiteshvara’, the Sanskrit name of a bodhisattva who listens and helps with deep compassion and skill. Like Avalokiteshvara, we are dedicated to help you feel truly seen, heard, and held. In naming our practice Avalo Therapy + Wellness, we acknowledge the roots of the healing practices we now share to enhance your experience of healing with mindfulness, presence and self-compassion.
FUN FACT: Avalokiteshvara is highly adaptable, acquiring new qualities, robes, and names to skillfully help in infinite circumstances. They are gender fluid and culturally responsive! You might have heard their other names: Guanyin (China), Kannon (Japan), Karunamaya (Nepal), and Chenrezig (Tibet).
Avalo Therapy + Wellness
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