Welcome to The Middle Bridge Project
Culturally Responsive Mental Health Education, Tools & Programs
Empowering you to embrace cultural identity, bridge generational gaps and foster self compassion.
New 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.
Preorders Sold Out! We’re Restocking - Slowly, Gently and with Heart!
We’re officially sold out of our first batch of 50 decks for preorders! We’re so grateful for the love you’ve shown to the Cultural Compass™. Every order, message and kind word has been a meaningful grounding mark for us to continue creating and innovating more culturally responsive tools.
Right now, we're diligently and thoughtfully preparing behind the scenes for our next chapter restocking and tending to all the little details.
Want to be the first to know when we’re back in stock? If you’d like to be the first to hear when we’re restocked (and get a gentle nudge straight to your inbox), pop your name in the form below.
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
Imagine.. a life where you feel deeply connected with yourself and your roots, paving your own path, embracing self kindness, with openness to express when and how you want, freedom from guilt and shame, on your terms.
You can relearn your internal patterns, embrace your inner authentic voice and flourish with increased awareness in your cultural identities, sense of self and belonging in the world
Foster deeper connections in close relationships
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Heal your inner wounds
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Learn culturally sensitive emotion regulation 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 sensitive emotion regulation 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
A collaborative space where we explore self-trust, cultural narratives, and emotional wellbeing through practical culturally attuned strategies that honour your lived experiences.
Together, we relearn and reconnect with our inner wisdom and will create space for emotional expression, boundaries, and self-compassion all in community with others navigating life between cultures.
🍊 Our uniquely well loved and signature program, ‘How to Cut Fruit for Yourself’ a reparenting and self-compassion journey will return in the second half of the year.
Reach out directly to let us know or sign up to our mailing list to join the waitlist, access exclusive reflections and resources and be the first to know when enrolments open.
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Online Educational Courses
On-demand learning for those navigating life between cultures.
Our self-paced online courses are designed for people from diasporic, intercultural or marginalised backgrounds who are seeking guidance, clarity, and tools that honour their lived realities.
Whether you're learning how to set boundaries that feel aligned, support your wellbeing in workplaces that may not fully understand you or manage your time in ways that centre care over productivity, these courses offer culturally attuned strategies grounded in real-life contexts.
No forced fixes. No universal solutions. Just thoughtful, reflective learning that respects the complexity of your experiences and supports meaningful personal growth.
Launching Soon.
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Consultation & Workshops with Community & Organisations
We offer tailored workshops and training for organisations and community groups wanting to deepen their cultural responsiveness.
Our approach is grounded in lived experience, collaboration, and evidence-based frameworks - supporting teams to create safer, more inclusive spaces.
We focus on:
- Cultural identity and systemic impacts
- Strengths-based, practical strategies
- Reflective and inclusive practice
We work with you, not at you to create create meaningful sustainable change together.
Why The Middle Bridge Project?
A space to feel seen, without needing to explain everything.
Hi, I’m Vi - a psychologist, daughter of refugee and immigrant parents, 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 - weren’t built with all of us in mind. 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. Not to fix, but to walk alongside.
For those living between cultures and those who support them.
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.
You are the expert in your own life. Our work together is about collaborating, not prescribing. We centre your wisdom, strengths, and cultural knowledge - offering guidance, tools, and reflection spaces to support your self-determined growth.
In Lived Experience & Collective Wisdom, as Co-Learners.
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?
Real-World Tools for Real-Life Contexts
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.
Let’s Walk the Middle Bridge, Together
You deserve spaces where your full self is welcome. Where you don’t need to code-switch to be heard.
Where your community care, your culture, your boundaries - all have room to breathe.
If that’s what you’ve been searching for, I’m so glad you’re here. Your wellbeing matters.
With warmth & solidarity.
Vi Tran
Founder | Clinical Psychologist | Fellow Human
Tried traditional therapy but felt it was missing something?