Online Psychological and Wellbeing Therapy for Lifelong Explorers, Across Midlife and Beyond, Australia Wide
Life is full of upsides — Find your JOY, all your life
Welcome to Upside Stories — a progressive online psychology practice
At Upside Stories, we connect you with an experienced clinical psychologist and tailored online therapy for the themes that shape midlife and later life, themes that don't always arrive on schedule. Whether you're navigating mental health concerns, life transitions, caring for someone else, or thinking ahead to your own next chapter, we're here for you.
Upsides in Life
Every chapter brings upsides and downsides, new challenges, and growth. While regrets, disappointments, and distress are inevitable, they can also be a catalyst for surprising upsides.
How we make sense of adversity can be a turning point for new meaning and purpose throughout life. In turn, how we grow, contribute, and evolve in every chapter.
Welcome, I’m Bruce.
I founded Upside Stories to help rewrite limiting stories about ageing, for people in midlife and later life, for those in earlier adulthood supporting ageing parents, and for anyone whose story involves bigger questions ahead of schedule.
As a clinical psychologist with more than 16 years of practice, research, and postgraduate teaching experience, focusing on family carers and older person’s mental health and wellbeing, I've seen how those stories shape our mental health, our relationships, and our sense of what's possible.
I'm here to challenge those stories with you through a warm, insightful, down-to-earth, and tailored approach to exploring what this chapter of life is really asking of you, and what it might yet offer.
Our mission is to rewrite limiting stories about ageing and support you to find meaning, stay connected, keep growing, protect your health, and live life on your own terms.
How We Can Help
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Online Therapy
Online psychological therapy, assessment, and diagnosis when you're facing mental health concerns, mental illness, or significant life transitions, whether they're arriving earlier than expected in your 20s or 30s, your midlife, or later in older age. We’ll work together to support your recovery and explore what brings you meaning and purpose.
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Rewrite Your Story
A 10-week program for when life takes an unexpected turn, through posttraumatic stress, unexpected adversity, or challenging life transitions, and you're questioning the stories you're living by. Together we'll explore your past and life's turning points in a meaningful way, recognising strengths, and supporting new purpose and direction ahead.
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Healthy Brain Happy Heart
This 10-week program is for when you're thinking about brain health, whether you have a family history of dementia, are noticing changes, or believe in starting early. With dementia starting decades before symptoms appear, it's rarely too early or too late to act. We'll explore modifiable risk factors and help you turn good intentions into meaningful lifestyle habits.
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Carers' Compass
Our 10-week program when you're supporting family living with dementia or another chronic illness, whether you're a partner, an adult-child, or a younger relative in the carer role. Family caregiving can bring ambiguous loss, isolation, guilt, and a deep need for connection. We'll support you in practical ways to adapt, reconnect, and explore new meaning.
In our online sessions, here’s what you can expect…
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Relaxed Environment
Appointments with us are down-to-earth, warm, empathic, and non-judgmental.
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Good Questions
We believe insightful questions can transform your view.
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Tailored Approach
We work with you to find an approach that meets your needs.
Life is full of upsides.
Find your JOY.
All your life.
Explore our insights on life’s big questions, transitions, and challenges today.
