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Rainbow Muse began as a dream. Not a business plan. Not a brand.
A dream of a space where care felt real, where difference wasn’t treated like a problem, where art and softness and colour could live in the same room as trauma and complexity.
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​In 2019, I founded Rainbow Muse to be that space—for the kids I saw myself in, for the grown-ups still carrying their younger selves, and for the families who were trying to love each other through impossible systems.
Over time, the dream grew. And in 2022, I co-founded Rainbow Muse Clinic with my best friend Sammy—pouring everything we had into building a place for radically affirming care. But like many good things, the clinic became heavy. The weight of waitlists, admin, and constant referrals started to pull us away from what mattered most: relationships, creativity, and community.
So we dismantled the clinic, gently. And rebuilt something softer, slower, more true. That’s how the Rainbow Muse Collective was born—a web of independent practices, held together by shared values and deep respect.
I continue to practice through Rainbow Muse Studio, offering creative, affirming support to neurodivergent kids, teens, adults, and families.
My work is rooted in art, play, identity, and embodied co-regulation—and always shaped by the belief that healing isn’t about fixing. It’s about being seen.
Alongside my therapy work, I’m completing a PhD that explores radical love, normativity, and decolonial practice through the lens of community psychology. I’m also the founder of Tandara Pa Rainbow, a not-for-profit grown from this work—offering community-led programs, peer-based support, and creative healing justice outside of clinical models.
Rainbow Muse is still my baby.
It just got bigger. More honest. More real.
Consulting, Speaking & Creative Collaborations
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For the dreamers, the disrupters, and the ones doing things differently.
My consulting work is grounded in radical care, creative practice, and lived experience. I offer training, supervision, mentoring, and project support—but more than that, I offer space. Space to unlearn, to imagine, and to figure out what it means to do this work with integrity, softness, and guts.
I work with therapists, educators, community leaders, health workers, artists, and people building things that don’t fit neatly in boxes. I’ve worked in schools, studios, clinics, policy spaces, and places with bad lighting and good people. I bring my clinical training, my PhD research, my years in the sector—and my whole self. But honestly? I also bring my awkwardness. My questions. My absolute refusal to pretend I have it all figured out. I’m not here to perform expertise. I’m here to sit with complexity, make things better where we can, and build community where the cracks are.
I care deeply about sensory justice, intersectionality, decolonising care, gender freedom, and all the ways art and play help us hold what’s too big for words. I don’t believe in one-size-fits-all workshops. Every offering is tailored, collaborative, and rooted in real, responsive relationship. If you’re building something brave—or trying to make something old less harmful—I’d love to hear from you. Reach out, and let’s see what we can make together. Every collaboration is responsive, relational, and grounded in care—not off-the-shelf.​​
My Consulting Work in Practice​​
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Conference presentations, workshops, speaking, and panel conversations
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Reflective education rooted in lived experience and systemic insight
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Program design and service co-creation
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Clinical supervision and creative mentoring
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How I Work
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Creative, relational, neuroaffirming
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Guided by radical love and cultural humility
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Grounded in lived experience and clinical skill
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Centring care over performance
past collaborations
Previous Work Experience
I draw from experiences gained within the multiple roles in the mental health and community service sector. Prior to starting Rainbow Muse I previously worked in:​
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Community Engagement, Programs and Youth Mental Health at headspace
Community Liaison and Family Dispute Resolution/ Mediation at Relationships Australia Victoria
Early Intervention Crime Prevention and for young people at YSAS
Family and Youth Support for Refugees and Asylum Seekers at The Brotherhood of St Laurence
Youth Support and Programs in local government Youth Services
Parent and Child Programs with Communities in Remote East Arnhem Land, Northern Territory
Youth Programs in the Tiwi Islands Northern Territory with NTCSA​​
Tertiary QUalifications
PhD (Community Psychology), 2022 ongoing
Dissertation Working Title: "Everyone is a Rainbow: Re-imagining and Re-structuring Normativities through the Lenses of Decolonial Practice, Collective Care, and Social Justice"​
Masters in Therapeutic Arts Practice (Therapy),, 2018
Thesis Title: “Look at All the Rainbows: My Journey through the Implementation of a Therapeutic Arts Program in a Youth Mental Health Setting”​
Graduate Certificate in Autism Studies, 2021 ​
Graduate Diploma in Family Dispute Resolution, 2013​
Bachelor of Arts, 2007
Professional Development
Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) Certification Program (ongoing)
Synergetic Play Therapy (2022)
Monteiro Interview Guidelines for Diagnosing the Autism Spectrum, Second Edition
MIGDAS-2 Interview Training (2022)
NDIS Functional Behaviour Assessment (FBA) Training (2021)
Child Centred Play Therapy Training 2019
Drumbeat (Discovering Relationships Using Music, Beliefs, Emotions, Attitudes and Thoughts) Training 2019
Kids Yoga Teacher Training 2019
Tuning Into Teens – Emotion Focused Parenting Facilitator Training (2018)
Trauma Sensitive Yoga Training 2018
Yoga Teacher Training 2018
Tuning into Kids-Emotion Focused Parenting Facilitator Training (2017)
Space 4 Us -Program Facilitator Training, 2017
CHAMPS (Children and Mentally Ill Parents)- Program Facilitator Training, 2017
Advanced Training in Mindfulness Based Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
Advanced Training in Psychotherapy
Youth Mental Health First Aid, 2014
Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASSIST) Training, 2014
registrations and memberships
​Australian, New Zealand and Asian Creative Arts Therapies Association (ANZACATA) Professional Member
NDIS Registered Service Provider NDIA Registered for Therapeutic Support and Innovative Community Participation
The Australasian Society for Autism Research (ASFAR)- Full Membership Autistic Researcher
The Australian Professional Association for Trans Health Member (AusPATH)
The Society for Community Research and Action (SCRA) - Community Psychology, American Psychological Association
Registered Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner
Registered Yoga Teacher RYT200 Yoga Alliance
Decolonial Practise
I work on Wurundjeri Country as a settler and commit to centring First Nations sovereignty in my practice. This means actively recognising the ongoing impact of colonisation and aligning with the liberation, land back, and cultural restoration work led by First Nations Peoples. I invite all who enter this space to reflect on our shared responsibilities in this.
Intersectionality
This space is built for those living at the intersections of race, gender, class, disability, queerness, and neurodivergence. I provide care that is culturally affirming and critically aware of how ableism, cisheteropatriarchy, colonialism, and imperialism shape our experiences. I work to repair the internalised harm these systems cause, while always honouring lived wisdom.
Arts-based praxis
Creative expression isn’t an “add-on”—it’s the foundation of how I work. Arts-based praxis is used in therapy, participatory action, research, and resistance. At Rainbow Muse, creativity becomes a mode of healing, connection, and meaning-making. It’s also a method for activism, self-definition, and reclaiming power.
Body and Mind
I support nervous system healing through body-based and sensory-informed approaches. Using creative, trauma-sensitive tools for self-regulation and interoception, we begin to reconnect with our bodies as safe places to live in. Movement, rhythm, breath, and stillness all have a place here—because sometimes surviving asks more of us than words alone can hold.
Social Justice Oriented
Therapy here is never apolitical. I use a liberation-focused framework that makes visible the ways systemic oppression shows up in our bodies, our stories, and our survival. Together, we work toward wellness not through compliance—but through resistance, reclamation, and joy. My practice is explicitly LGBTQIA+, neurodivergent, and disability justice aligned.
Walking Together
Healing is relational. My work is grounded in collaboration, consent, and co-regulation—not hierarchy or “fixing.” I walk beside each person with deep respect for their pace, process, and autonomy. There is no one way to be human, and no singular way to heal. All paths toward thriving are welcome here.
