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Welcome
Rainbow Muse is nestled in Warburton, on the lands of the Wurundjeri People. We offer difference-affirming, anti-oppressive, and culturally inclusive support, specialising in working with people whose identities exist at the intersections of neurodivergence, race, gender, culture, class, and other overlapping forms of marginalisation.
This is a space for healing justice. Our goal is not to “fix” anyone to better fit normative expectations. Instead, we co-create the conditions for safety, dignity, and thriving. Safety here means more than absence of harm. It means a gentle dwelling space where complexity is seen as magic, not pathology. Where tools can be collaboratively built to help humans navigate the world, rather than erase the parts that make them beautifully different.
At Rainbow Muse, care is collaborative and participatory. Community connection, collective care, and creativity are understood as essential to wellbeing and belonging, not optional extras.
Chenai is a NDIS Registered Provider for both Therapeutic Supports and Innovative Community Participation, with a strong focus on using creative methods to support individuals, families, and communities toward cultural resilience and meaningful participation.
Areas of Support
Developmental Capacity and Functional Participation
Support focuses on building practical skills for everyday functioning, including communication, emotional regulation, self-understanding, relationships, identity development, and participation across home, education, work, and community settings.
The work prioritises functional capacity, confidence, and real-world participation, rather than diagnostic labelling or deficit-based approaches.
Family, School, and System Collaboration
Where appropriate, support includes collaboration with families, caregivers, schools, and other service providers.
This work strengthens consistency across environments, supports skill generalisation, and assists systems to better understand and respond to individual needs.
The focus is on shared understanding, practical alignment, and reducing barriers to participation across settings.
Creative and Sensory-Based Support Methods
Art, play, movement, and sensory-based approaches are used as structured methods to support regulation, expression, integration, and skill development.
These methods are particularly effective for individuals who do not engage well with purely verbal or traditional clinical models and allow access to experiences that are difficult to communicate through language alone.
Participation is always voluntary and guided by individual preference and capacity.
Emotional Regulation and Relational Skills
Support assists individuals to develop emotional regulation, coping strategies, and relational skills in a safe and supportive environment.
This includes support during periods of transition, stress, grief, identity development, and relational difficulty, with an emphasis on safety, consent, and pacing appropriate to the individual.
Neuroaffirming Individual and Family Therapeutic Support
Creative Community Engagement & Participation
Developmental Education, Consulting and Supervision
Therapeutic, Peer-led and Creative Arts Community Groups
Innovative Employment Support and Mentoring
Workshops, Training and Program Development
Support Across the Lifespan
Early Childhood and Primary Years - The Magic Ones
Chenai works with children in the early years and primary school age using child-centred play, art, and relational approaches that meet children where they are developmentally. The focus is on supporting communication, emotional regulation, sensory processing, imagination, and meaning-making through creative and play-based engagement. This work supports children who experience the world intensely, creatively, and sensitively, and who may be navigating neurodivergence, anxiety, identity exploration, or developmental differences. The aim is to build safety, trust, and understanding, while supporting children and their caregivers to develop shared language, tools, and strategies that translate into everyday life.
Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Chenai works with adolescents and young adults navigating identity development, emotional regulation, social relationships, and increasing independence. Support during this stage focuses on building self-understanding, agency, and capacity during periods of transition, including school changes, mental health challenges, marginalisation, or system fatigue. Creative, embodied, and relational approaches are used to support regulation, expression, and meaning-making, particularly for those who do not thrive in purely verbal or clinical settings. This work centres collaboration, consent, and respect for each person’s pace and emerging autonomy.
Adulthood, Identity, and Participation
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Much of Chenai’s work with adults focuses on participation, belonging, and navigating the world in ways that align with identity, values, and capacity. Support may include building confidence in social and community settings, exploring identity and self-advocacy, reducing the impact of systemic barriers, and strengthening access to meaningful roles and relationships. The work recognises that wellbeing is deeply connected to inclusion, voice, and the ability to participate on one’s own terms. This includes supporting adults to translate insights from sessions into practical strategies across daily life, relationships, and community contexts.
Work, Pathways, and Meaningful Living
Chenai provides capacity-building and mentoring support for people seeking meaningful pathways in work, study, creative practice, or community contribution. This support is not about forcing people to fit existing systems, but about identifying strengths, interests, access needs, and realistic pathways that support autonomy and sustainability. Work may include exploring motivation, identity, accessibility, and self-worth, as well as navigating employment-related systems where relevant. The focus is on supporting people to build lives that feel aligned, doable, and meaningful, according to their own definitions of success.
Values and Practice Foundations
Decolonial Practice
Chenai works on Wurundjeri Country as a settler and is committed to centring First Nations sovereignty in her practice. This includes recognising the ongoing impacts of colonisation and aligning her work with First Nations-led knowledge, cultural restoration, and self-determination. This commitment shows up in how care is delivered, whose knowledge is prioritised, and how power, consent, and responsibility are held in therapeutic and community spaces.
Social Justice-Oriented Practice
Chenai’s work recognises that distress and exclusion do not exist in isolation from social, cultural, and systemic conditions. Her practice is informed by an understanding of how power, inequality, and marginalisation shape people’s experiences of health, disability, education, and participation. Support is oriented toward reducing harm, increasing access, and supporting people to navigate systems with dignity and agency.
Arts-Based Praxis
Creative expression is not an add-on to Chenai’s work. It is a core method of engagement, learning, and meaning-making. Arts-based approaches are used across therapeutic practice, developmental education, research, and community programs to support expression, regulation, reflection, and participation. Creativity is understood as both a wellbeing resource and a legitimate form of knowledge, particularly for people who communicate and process the world in non-linear or non-verbal ways.
Walking Together
Healing and development are understood as relational processes. Chenai works collaboratively, alongside clients, families, and communities, with a strong emphasis on consent, transparency, and shared decision-making. The work is not about fixing or directing, but about supporting people to develop understanding, tools, and confidence in ways that respect their pace, autonomy, and lived experience.
Intersectionality
This practice is designed for people whose lives sit at the intersections of neurodivergence, disability, race, gender, sexuality, culture, and class. Care is responsive rather than standardised, recognising that people experience systems differently depending on their identities and histories. The aim is not to categorise or simplify, but to offer support that is attuned to complexity and context.
Body and Mind
Chenai supports nervous system regulation and wellbeing through body-based and sensory-informed approaches alongside cognitive and relational work. Movement, rhythm, breath, stillness, and creative practices are used as accessible tools to support regulation, interoception, and self-awareness. These approaches are especially supportive for people whose experiences of distress are held in the body rather than easily articulated in words.
Where to Next
Rainbow Muse brings together several strands of Chenai’s work, connected by shared values and a developmental, relational approach across the lifespan. Support is offered across early childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, with specific pages providing more detail depending on age, context, and funding pathway.
If you are seeking support for younger children and their families, you can explore The Magic Ones, a dedicated space focused on early childhood, play, sensory development, and relational safety.
If you are looking for NDIS-funded support across adolescence or adulthood, including identity, regulation, participation, and community connection, you can visit the NDIS Support pages.
If you are interested in Chenai’s professional background, values, and experience across clinical, community, and international contexts, you can visit Working with Chenai.
If you are exploring consulting, program design, training, or advisory work in Australia or internationally, you can learn more via Rainbow Muse Consulting.
Contact
Studio 13b 21 Woods Point Rd Warburton Victoria
