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 at the International College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Vancouver. She has practised Chinese medicine since 2005.
She is a registered Doctor of Acupuncture in Alberta and a licensed Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine in British Columbia. In 2008, she became a Fellow of the Acupuncture and TCM Board of Reproductive Medicine. Her clinical work has included on-site acupuncture care at fertility clinics in Vancouver and Edmonton, with a longstanding focus on reproductive health, whole-person care, and mindfulness-informed support. She is currently supporting patients with Eastern medicine, Acupuncture, and Whole Person Care at Whole Family Health, Whyte Ave Root & Rise, and Alberta Reproductive Centre.
Her own experience of reproductive health challenges continues to inform her approach. She seeks to offer care that is both practical and compassionate, supporting patients to pursue their goals while caring for body, mind, and heart.
mindfulness, community, and research
Alda is an ordained member of the Order of Interbeing in the Plum Village tradition of Zen Master Thích Nhất Hạnh. She facilitates mindfulness programs and community practice, and contributes to mentoring, retreat, and cultural-heritage initiatives in Canada and internationally.
She is a Certified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction facilitator through the Centre for Mindfulness Studies. Her work in mindfulness includes supporting people navigating fertility and reproductive health, as well as creating trauma-informed spaces for practice, reflection, and relationship.
Alda has also participated in research investigating the benefits of mindfulness for fertility patients through McMaster University.
writer, oral historian, and mindfulness educator
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, health, 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 developing 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.