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Rainbow Muse Collective

Welcome

To Rainbow Muse Collective, ​a constellation of radically affirming therapy practices, united in purpose, diverse in form.

 

Rainbow Muse Collective is a community of independent therapy practitioners within a shared ecosystem. 

Each therapist runs their own unique practice, but we’re united by shared values: radical love, embodied practice, neurodivergent joy, decolonial care, and deep respect for lived experience. 

We’re not a clinic, we’re a collective. Each practitioner sets their own rhythm, offers their own style of support, and works in ways that are authentic to them. No central intake. No triage. Just connection, your way. That means

➤ Each therapist has their own page, approach, and contact details.

➤ You can see who’s currently accepting referrals and reach out to them directly.

➤ If they have a waitlist, you’ll be able to join it from their page.

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Rainbow Muse Collective Team Illustration by Chenai Mupotsa-Russell

Who we are

The Rainbow Muse Collective is a loving community of allied therapy providers offering radically affirming, trauma-informed, and neurodivergence-affirming care. 

 

Rooted in values of relational safety, creativity, and collective healing, we work collaboratively—honouring each person’s unique story, identity, and way of being in the world.

 

Based on Wurundjeri Country in Naarm (Melbourne), we offer a diverse range of therapeutic supports, including: Art therapy, mental health peer support, psychology, child-centred play therapy, dance and movement therapy, family therapy, developmental therapy,  animal-assisted therapy and trauma-sensitive yoga

 

 

All services are provided in an inclusive, culturally responsive environment that celebrates diversity across neurotypes, bodies, genders, cultures, and lived experiences

 

We are not here to “fix” people. We are here to walk alongside—co-creating spaces where people can reconnect to themselves, their communities, and their sense of possibility.

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How Rainbow Muse Became a COllective

Rainbow Muse began as a dream.  In 2019, Chenai founded Rainbow Muse with the vision of creating a magical, therapeutic safe space for those who don’t fit neatly into boxes—people often overlooked, misread, or pathologised by systems not built for them. A place where neurodivergence, queerness, cultural complexity, and radical softness could be held with care.

 

The dream grew. And in 2022, Chenai joined forces with her best friend Sammy—founder of Girl and Dog Psychology, fellow youth mental health rebel, and passionate disruptor of the norm. Together, they opened Rainbow Muse Clinic, pouring their hearts into building a home for fierce, creative, radically affirming care.

 

Over two incredible years, our team and community expanded beyond anything we imagined. But so did the weight—of long waitlists, endless referrals, and a clinical system that too often demands more than it gives. The clinic model, with its hierarchies and pressures, began to pull us away from our values.

 

So we made a bold choice. We dismantled the clinic. And rebuilding something softer, braver, more aligned.​ A home built not from the top down, but from the inside out. A collective led by shared values, collective leadership, and deep trust in community care.

 

We are artists, therapists, troublemakers, and dreamers. We work on Wurundjeri Country, with an unwavering commitment to decolonial, neuro-affirming, and intersectional practice. We honour lived experience and the wisdom of those too often silenced.

 

We believe healing is not about compliance—it’s about connection. It’s about being seen, protected, and empowered to live fully, messily, and magnificently as yourself. r

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What's On

  • Soft Art Club
    Soft Art Club
    Multiple Dates
    16 July 2025, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
    16 July 2025, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
    Noble Park, 35f Buckleys Ln, Noble Park VIC 3174, Australia
    A Muslim women’s weekly art therapy program, focusing on mindfulness and wellbeing. All art materials provided.
  • Pencil Dust Launch. Animated Podcast by Lucy Jane and Sophie McPike
    Pencil Dust Launch. Animated Podcast by Lucy Jane and Sophie McPike
    26 July 2025, 8:00 am – 12:00 pm
    YouTube.com/pencildustpod
    Best friends Sophie (artist/animator) and Lucy (artist/art therapist) spent their youth and teen years immersed in creative worlds and struggling to figure out who they were and how to manage socialising and learning without the language to understand the overwhelm.

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Find Us

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Mountain Gate Shopping Centre,
Suite 3, 53-54 1880 Ferntree Gully Rd, Ferntree Gully 3156

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Rainbow Muse Studio

Yarra Ranges Enterprise Centre
Studio 13B, 21 Woods Point Road Warburton 3799

Contact US

Each person here runs their own case-load. That means: no central admin, no one-size-fits-all support, and no inbox manager handing out referrals.

 

If you’re curious about working with someone, we invite you to take your time. Explore each person’s page, feel into what resonates, and reach out to them directly when you’re ready.

 

If you’re a service provider or support coordinator reaching out about an existing client. Find all our individual contacts here. Please click the email icon on their profile to contact them directly. We do not share information without consent.

 

Want to join a waitlist?
Visit our Waitlists page to see each practitioner’s current availability and join if they have an open list.

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Rainbow Muse acknowledges the Bunurong/Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Peoples of the Kulin Nation, on whose lands we tandara. We are committed to allyship and are guided by the leadership and self-determination of First Nations Peoples. We honour connection to land, culture and community of the traditional custodians of this land, and offer respect to Elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty has never been ceded and this always was and always will be Aboriginal Land. We are committed to ongoing practices of decolonisation that centre the experiences of the people of this land.

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Rainbow Muse is committed to embracing diversity and eliminating all forms of discrimination in the provision of wellbeing services. Rainbow Muse celebrates all people, ethnicities, faiths, sexual orientations and gender identities. We are an anti-racist, anti-discrimination, anti-ableism, anti-stigma and anti-oppression space.

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