about
acupuncturist, mindfulness educator, writer, and emerging oral historian, working across whole-person care, community, creativity, and cultural memory
Dr. Alda Xuân-Mai Ngô
B.Sc., Dr.TCM, FABORM, OBAAM
clinical practice and credentials
Alda Xuân-Mai Ngô (she/her) holds a Bachelor of Science in General Biology from the University of British Columbia and completed a five-year Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine program with training in Vancouver and China. She has practised Chinese medicine since 2005, specializing in fertility and reproductive health for much of her clinical career.
Alda is a registered Doctor of Acupuncture in Alberta and a registered Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine in British Columbia. In 2008, she became a Fellow of the international Acupuncture and TCM Board of Reproductive Medicine (ABORM). She is also a Senior Member of the International Obstetrical Acupuncture Association (OBAA). Her clinical work has included on-site acupuncture care at fertility clinics in Vancouver and Edmonton.
She is currently an acupuncturist at Whole Family Health and Whyte Ave Root & Rise. She is also the lead acupuncturist at Alberta Reproductive Centre, where she serves as the Whole Person Care Guide. In this role, she provides compassionate, patient-centred support to help people navigate fertility treatment, access supportive resources, and nurture a sense of agency throughout the process.
Her own experience of infertility and pregnancy loss continues to inform the way she practises. She seeks to offer care that is clinically grounded, practical, and compassionate. She aspires to support patients in pursuing their wellness and reproductive goals through cultivating wholeness, and caring for body, mind, and heart.
mindfulness, research, and community
Alda is a Certified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) facilitator through the Centre for Mindfulness Studies. She co-facilitates evidence-based mindfulness programs for supporting people navigating fertility and reproductive health. She has also been part of a research team investigating the benefits of mindfulness for fertility patients through McMaster University.
She is an ordained member of the Order of Interbeing in the Plum Village tradition of Zen Master Thích Nhất Hạnh. Alda facilitates mindfulness programs and community practice, mentors practitioners, and contributes to retreats and cultural-heritage initiatives in Canada and internationally. She also co-creates trauma-informed spaces for reflection, relationship, and shared practice.
story, memory, and cultural inheritance
Alda is a Vietnamese Canadian writer, and emerging oral historian, based in Edmonton, Alberta. Her work is grounded in attentive listening, relationship, and the ways memory, culture, well-being, and spiritual practice shape individual and collective lives.
Across literary nonfiction, oral history, contemplative practice, and community-based work, Alda is especially drawn to questions of ancestry, displacement, intergenerational connection, belonging, and continuation. Her published writing includes Ancestral Roots in The Mindfulness Bell. Her creative work includes Dear Tien, a multimedia creative nonfiction work weaving family photographs, narration, and Vietnamese Canadian history, and Alda’s Altar (Bàn Thờ), an installation reflecting on ancestry and diasporic home.
Alda is currently in the early development stages of The Stories We Carry, a book-length literary nonfiction and oral-history project gathering Vietnamese Order of Interbeing voices in Vietnam and across the diaspora. The project explores histories of war, migration, cultural rupture, spiritual lineage, and continuation through culturally grounded, trauma-informed story gathering.