Welcome to The Middle Bridge Project
Culturally Responsive Mental Health Education, Tools & Workshops
Embrace cultural identity, bridge generational gaps and foster self compassion.
Cultural Compass™
A values card deck for those who move between cultures, to help you find clarity, honour your story and reconnect with what matters.
Created for personal reflection, group work and culturally affirming practice.
Each deck is prepared slowly, gently, and with heart, a continuation of our commitment to crafting culturally responsive and affirming tools.
Ready to explore?
Decks are now available, order yours today and be part of this next chapter with us.
Otherwise, sign up to our mailing list to stay in the loop, we’d be so glad to have you along.
With warmth
Vi & The Middle Bridge Project team
Foster deeper connections in close relationships
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Heal your inner wounds
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Learn culturally informed strategies
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Find fulfilment in work and relationships
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Connect with your integrated values to clarify your direction
Foster deeper connections in close relationships · Heal your inner wounds · Learn culturally informed strategies · Find fulfilment in work and relationships · Connect with your integrated values to clarify your direction
What we offer | How we help
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Culturally Informed Group Coaching
If you've spent a long time putting yourself last, navigating life between cultures, or struggling to trust your own needs and feelings this space was made with you in mind.
Our group coaching brings together people with shared lived experiences to explore self-trust, cultural narratives, and emotional wellbeing through practical, culturally attuned strategies. Together we relearn how to reconnect with our own inner wisdom and make room for emotional expression, boundaries, and self-compassion in community with others who get it.
Our signature program, How to Cut Fruit for Yourself, is a reparenting and self-compassion journey returning in the second half of the year.
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Workshops with Community & Organisations
We run workshops for two different groups and both matter.
For organisations and teams working with culturally and linguistically diverse communities, our sessions build cultural responsiveness. We cover cultural identity and systemic impacts, intergenerational trauma and post-traumatic growth, strengths-based approaches and reflective practice. We've worked across public sector teams, private organisations and grassroots community groups.
For communities, we offer workshops focused on you: leadership, confidence, understanding your values and strengths, and navigating workplaces and systems.
We work with you, not at you.
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Online Learning & Webinars
Our webinars are run online, by and for those from culturally and racially marginalised communities including people of colour, diaspora and immigrant communities. They're practical, honest, and built around what our community has actually asked for including topics like authenticity at work, navigating racialised expectations, and cultural safety.
We're also developing a range of self-paced online courses for people from diasporic, multicultural, and marginalised identities. These aren't live yet, but if this sounds like something you've been looking for, get on the list and we'll let you know when they're ready.
Why The Middle Bridge Project?
A space to feel seen, without needing to explain everything.
Hi, I’m Vi, a psychologist, daughter of former refugee and immigrant parents, second generation Vietnamese Australian and someone who grew up moving between languages, expectations and worlds. I started The Middle Bridge Project because for a long time, I couldn't find a space that truly held the layered, in-between parts of me which include the parts shaped by culture, community, survival and silence. Maybe you know that feeling too.
Mental health systems - while well-intentioned were not built with all of us in mind, particularly when they draw from dominant western psychological frameworks. Too often, they’ve asked us to fragment who we are: to show up without our ancestry, our community, our complexity. This space exists to do things differently.
For those living between cultures and those who support them. In Collective Wisdom, as Co-Learners.
Whether you’re someone moving through the world with a racialised, diasporic or marginalised identity, or a therapist seeking to practice from a culturally affirming lens - this work is about unlearning, remembering and reconnecting. We begin not from scratch, but from what you already carry.
This work draws from Schema Therapy, Narrative Therapy, ACT and DBT as resources to be reinterpreted and reshaped. Every offering is adapted through a culturally responsive lens that makes room for cultural context, to the best that we can with openness to feedback, learning and refinement.
We start with what you already carry - your insight, your values, your history - and build from there. I don’t pretend to have all the answers. This work is about walking alongside, not ahead and whether we’re unpacking internalised narratives or exploring culturally safe practice, we do so in a way that centres relationship, curiosity and self-determined growth. We honour complexity over certainty, nuance over neatness.
Reclaiming Cultural Narratives
So many of us hold inherited stories about who we should be, how we should give, what we must carry. Some of those stories feel sacred and others feel heavy. In this space, we ask:
What parts of my culture still nourish me?
What have I outgrown and how do I let that go?
How do I stay rooted and expansive at the same time?
We strive with intention from everything we offer, from programs to resources - is made with everyday life in mind. Whether you’re navigating burnout, care responsibilities, bicultural identity or the emotional labour of holding space for others, we aim to offer tools that are reflective, kind and culturally grounded.
With warmth & solidarity.
Vi Tran
Founder | Clinical Psychologist | Fellow Human
Tried traditional therapy but felt it was missing something?