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Welcome to the space for Rainbow Muse’s Magic Ones in adulthood.
This is a place for people who were once sensitive, curious, intense, imaginative children, and who are now navigating adulthood in bodies and minds shaped by difference, adaptation, and survival. Many people arrive here carrying unfinished stories from childhood, years of masking, or a quiet sense that they never quite fit the worlds they were expected to move through. This space does not ask you to harden, perform, or fix yourself.
Here, we honour tenderness, complexity, and the slow work of becoming more fully yourself. Healing is not about erasing your quirks or smoothing out your edges. It is about learning how to live, participate, and belong without abandoning yourself in the process.
Work with adults at Rainbow Muse is grounded in developmental education, relational practice, and community participation. Support focuses on capacity, regulation, identity, and connection, using creative and embodied approaches that make space for nervous systems shaped by difference.
This work often includes reclaiming parts of the self that did not get to be seen or supported earlier in life. Many adults describe this as inner child repair, not by revisiting the past endlessly, but by building safety, choice, and agency in the present.
This space is for adults whose lives sit at the intersections of difference.
Many people who work with Rainbow Muse are neurodivergent, disabled, late-diagnosed, trans, queer, racialised, culturally diverse, or navigating multiple forms of marginalisation at once. Often, the challenges people bring are not only about individual capacity, but about living in systems that were not designed to hold complexity, difference, or care.
Support across adulthood here recognises that identity, wellbeing, participation, and capacity are shaped by social context, power, history, and access. This work does not ask people to separate their needs from who they are, or to leave parts of themselves at the door in order to receive support.
Instead, we work relationally and developmentally, supporting adults to understand themselves more fully, regulate in a demanding world, and build ways of living that are sustainable and affirming. This may include unpacking long-term masking, chronic stress, identity fatigue, or the impact of repeated exclusion, alongside building practical strategies for everyday life.
The focus is not compliance or normalisation. It is dignity, agency, and participation on your own terms, within real constraints, with support that respects both your strengths and your limits.
How this Work is Funded Through the NDIS
For many adults, this work is funded through the NDIS. At Rainbow Muse, NDIS categories are used as practical pathways rather than rigid definitions of who you are or what your life should look like. Support may be delivered under the following categories, depending on your plan goals and needs.
Therapeutic Supports
This is therapy, but not the kind that pathologises difference or tries to fix who you are.
Therapeutic Supports focus on healing justice, identity affirmation, and building practical capacity for everyday life. Creative, sensory, and relational approaches are used to explore what safety, expression, and regulation mean for you in real, lived contexts.
This support may include:
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Developing emotional regulation and coping strategies
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Building routines that feel manageable and sustainable
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Exploring identity, self worth, and boundaries
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Increasing capacity for self advocacy and participation
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Healing from trauma through gentle, non verbal, and embodied approaches
The work is collaborative and paced. Nothing is imposed. You are met where you are.
Finding and Keeping a Job
This category is not treated as a push toward productivity at any cost.
Support here focuses on building the internal and external scaffolding needed to engage with work, contribution, or meaningful activity in ways that are sustainable and aligned with your values, energy, and access needs.
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Energy management and pacing
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Identifying access needs and workplace adjustments
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Communication tools, scripting, and preparation
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Exploring safe and authentic pathways into work
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Reconnecting meaning and agency to what you do
This support also includes people who are not suited to traditional employment, including creatives, freelancers, neurodivergent entrepreneurs, and those seeking alternatives to the nine to five model. Work does not need to cost you your wellbeing.
Innovative Community Participation
This category supports connection, creativity, and belonging beyond the therapy room.
Innovative Community Participation is used to support engagement with community life in ways that feel safe, affirming, and genuinely meaningful, especially for people who have experienced exclusion or burnout in social spaces.
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Reconnecting with community on your own terms
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Exploring creative activities that build confidence and skill
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Accessing sensory friendly and affirming environments
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Using art, storytelling, and movement to process lived experience
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Developing projects, passions, or routines that support wellbeing
This work is not about pushing you out into the world before you are ready. It is about walking alongside you as you build a life that fits.
Growing in Real Time
Many adults who come to Rainbow Muse have spent years adapting to systems, expectations, and environments that were not designed with them in mind. They have learned to mask, to push through, or to survive in ways that made sense at the time. This space recognises that reality without pathologising it.
Support here is grounded in the understanding that growth in adulthood is rarely linear. Capacity is built alongside regulation, identity, and meaning, not in opposition to them. The work honours the complexity of adult lives, including the impact of neurodivergence, disability, trauma, culture, gender, sexuality, and other intersecting experiences of difference.
Rather than rushing change or imposing goals from the outside, this work focuses on developing ways of living that are more sustainable, self-directed, and humane. Growth happens in real time, shaped by real constraints, real bodies, and real lives.
This is a space where adults are supported to meet the demands of life without abandoning themselves in the process. Where participation, contribution, and connection are approached with care, flexibility, and respect for who you are and how you move through the world.
