About Us

Rainbow Muse Collective is a creative, values-driven ecosystem of therapists, peers, and practitioners working together to provide radically affirming, neurodivergent-friendly, and decolonial care.

We are more than a team—we are an intentional community. Rainbow Muse Collective is an umbrella under which multiple small practices live, grow, and flourish. Each brings its own wisdom, modality, and magic—from art therapy to psychology, peer work to play, movement to mindfulness. By nourishing each other’s strengths, we create richer, more responsive supports for the communities we walk alongside.

Though we each work in our own way, we are united by a shared vision: to centre healing justice, honour lived experience, and offer care that affirms people in the full complexity of who they are.

We centre the needs and voices of BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, disabled, and neurodivergent communities—especially those who have been pathologised, marginalised, or made to feel like they don’t belong in traditional spaces. We believe in community care over top-down systems. We believe in tenderness as radical. We believe that healing happens in relationship.

This is not a place to be fixed—this is a place to be met.

our story

A Space for the Ones Who Never Fit the Mould

Rainbow Muse was founded by Chenai Mupotsa-Russell in 2019, born from the aching truth that too many magical, complex humans still don’t have safe spaces to land. Working across mental health and community sectors, Chenai saw firsthand how systems often exclude those whose identities sit at the intersections of race, neurodivergence, gender diversity, trauma, and queerness.

Rainbow Muse began as a response—a whisper of a dream to create a space where people could show up as their full selves without needing to shrink, mask, or translate. A space that wasn’t about fixing, but about honouring. A space to be seen, to be safe, and to belong.

Chenai and Sammy Rainbow Muse by Me and My Girl Lauren Peters

Two Friends, One Dream, and a Growing Vision

In 2022, Sammy Elliott, founder of Girl and Dog Psychology and longtime kindred spirit, joined forces with Chenai to co-create Rainbow Muse Clinic. As best friends with shared values and deep community roots, they built a beautiful, vibrant practice alongside an incredible team of practitioners.

But as the work expanded, so did the questions: What are we building? Who is it for? Can we do this in a way that really reflects our values?

The traditional clinic model—with its hierarchies and hustle—no longer felt right. It was clear that growth, for us, meant not scaling up but deepening down. We began the slow, intentional work of shifting towards collective leadership, reimagining how care could be held more collaboratively, ethically, and sustainably.

At its heart, Rainbow Muse Collective is a community of intersectionally-conscious practitioners. We name the ways systems of power shape access to care—and we hold ourselves accountable for how we show up within them. Power is never neutral, and our work is to keep interrogating it with humility and care.

Not a Rebrand—a Rebirth

Rainbow Muse Collective isn’t just a new name—it’s a new way of being. We use the word collective intentionally. It’s not a business model, it’s a worldview. A collective is a shared dream of care that is collaborative, relational, and non-hierarchical. It’s about leadership that listens, evolves, and grows sideways—not from the top down.

Think of Rainbow Muse Collective as a constellation of small practices, each one luminous in its own right, gathered under one shared sky. We are a network of independent therapists, walking together with trust, transparency, and a shared commitment to learning, liberation, and collective care.

We don’t all work the same way. And that’s the point. Diversity is not a challenge to overcome—it’s our strength, our magic, and the future we are building.

Meet The Collective Crew

Rainbow Muse Collective is home to a vibrant team of independent therapy practitioners—each offering their own unique flavour of care, creativity, and connection. We are artists, thinkers, feelers, movers, and space-holders, united by shared values and a deep commitment to radical, responsive, and affirming practice.

While we work collaboratively under the Rainbow Muse Collective umbrella, we are each our own practice—offering specialised supports in our own ways, with our own rhythms.

A gentle reminder: Because we are separate practices, we cannot share information or make internal referrals without your clear consent. If you’re interested in working with someone below, please reach out to them directly using their individual contact details.

We trust that you’ll be drawn to the person who feels right for you. Follow the spark—your therapist is the one who makes you feel safe, not small.