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The Magic Ones is a heart-offering from Chenai, created as a dedicated space within Rainbow Muse for younger neurodivergent humans and the grown-ups who walk alongside them. This work honours children whose nervous systems are sensitive, curious, intense, imaginative, and deeply feeling. Children who experience the world vividly, sometimes joyfully, sometimes with overwhelm, and often in ways that do not fit neatly within school or clinical expectations.
As a Developmental Educator and Arts Therapist, Chenai works at the intersection of learning, sensory integration, emotional development, and everyday life. Her approach is grounded in the belief that children do not need fixing. They need understanding, attunement, and environments that meet them where they are.
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​Sessions are playful, relational, and collaborative. Art, play, movement, stories, and sensory tools are used to help children make sense of feelings, experiences, and transitions. Rather than shaping children to fit the world, the work gently reshapes the world around them, building shared language, practical tools, and a sense of safety and belonging. One-on-one work in this space focuses on early childhood and primary-aged children, alongside parents and caregivers. Together, they co-create supports, rituals, and understandings that help daily life feel safer, softer, and more possible.
The Magic Ones sits within a broader lifespan approach at Rainbow Muse. Support for adolescents, adults, and systems-level work is offered through other areas of the practice.
Arts-Based Therapy
Sensory Play & Regulation
Neuroaffirming Training for Adults
Developmental Education
Parent & Carer Support
Tools & Resources
Some things I do with The Magic Ones
Sessions are shaped to honour each child’s communication style, sensory profile, and neurotype. Support is always responsive to the child in front of me and aligned with their NDIS goals. Depending on the child this may include:
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Art-making and creative expression to support emotional regulation
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Play-based exploration to build identity, confidence, and boundaries
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Sensory-informed tools and routines to support co-regulation
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Storytelling, movement, and metaphor to process experiences safely
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Collaborative support during big changes and transitions
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Parent and carer guidance and support
Work happens slowly and relationally, with respect for the time it takes to build safety. The focus is not compliance or performance, but connection, understanding, and trust.
I can also support with
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Parent-child sessions
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Carer support and advocacy
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Letters, reports, and practical resources for schools and care teams
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Collaboration with your child’s broader support network
Funding and NDIS alignment
Support through The Magic Ones can be funded under:
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Capacity Building Improved Daily Living
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Capacity Building Increased Social and Community Participation
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Capacity Building Improved Relationships
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Capacity Building Improved Emotional Regulation
For older children and teens, some goals may also align with Capacity Building Finding and Keeping a Job.
Common goals families work towards
Support often focuses on goals such as:
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Expressing emotions in safe and supported ways
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Developing independence in routines and communication
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Increasing social confidence and participation
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Supporting sensory regulation across everyday environments
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Building identity, resilience, and self-understanding
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Navigating transitions such as school changes, new environments, or diagnosis
Families are often holding a lot. This work makes space not only for children, but also for the adults who support them.
At Rainbow Muse, we believe every child carries their own kind of magic. Some children speak it through paint. Some through movement. Some through stillness. Some through deep, quiet knowing. The Magic Ones is a dedicated space for neurodivergent children and their families, where therapy is playful, sensory-aware, trauma-informed, and never about fixing who a child is. Sessions are shaped around trust, curiosity, and relationship, meeting each child exactly where they are.
We work alongside children and the grown-ups who care for them, supporting expression, self-understanding, and regulation through gentle, collaborative practice. One session at a time, we co-create safety, language, and tools that help everyday life feel more manageable, meaningful, and kind.
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To all the Magical Little Ones: I see you....... I walk alongside you with my own magic too.
The Magic Ones may have brains that can explore as far as space!
The Magic Ones may have big hearts and big brains that can get a bit stuck.
The Magic Ones may experience their senses differently.
The Magic Ones may find it hard to sit still when there adventures to be had!
The Magic Ones may have the most specialest interests one could find!
The Magic Ones may colour outside the lines because.... they are just a guide.
The Magic Ones may need extra help learning to regulate
The Magic Ones may feel a bit alien from time to time.
The Magic Ones go on great adventures inside their magical minds.
The Magic Ones may think playing with other smalls is a bit strange.
The Magic Ones may prefer to be lost in the pages of books.
The Magic Ones may seem super grumpy without what the growns consider a cause.
The Magic Ones may need to retreat to bed for big chunks of time.
The Magic Ones may be brave and strong at what may seem like the strangest of times.
The Magic Ones may not get whats up with all this stuff about gender binaries.
The Magic Ones may be crying out from inside the grown up ones.
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These images offer a glimpse into how children explore feelings, experiences, and the world around them through art, play, and sensory tools. Each activity is an invitation rather than a task, shaped by the child’s interests, communication style, and nervous system needs. Nothing here is about performance or “doing it right.” These are ways children make meaning, practise regulation, build language, and feel understood, often before words are available.
