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Welcome
Rainbow Muse is based in Warburton on the lands of the Wurundjeri People. We offer neuro-affirming, anti-oppressive and culturally inclusive support specialising in working with people with diverse intersecting identities.
Rainbow Muse is a space for healing justice. In this therapeutic space the goal is not to ‘fix’ anyone so that they are better conditioned to approximating to normatively. But instead, to co-create the conditions of keeping a person safe and allowing them to thrive. By safe, I mean to hold the gentle dwelling space where their complexity is magical and not to be ‘fixed’. But also where we can collaborate on creating the tools to allow humans to negotiate the world and thrive.
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Rainbow Muse has a collaborative and participatory approach to care and believes community connection, collective care and creativity foster wellbeing and social connection. Chenai is an NDIS Registered provider for Therapeutic Support and Innovation Community Participation with a focus on using creative methods to mobilise communities for cultural resilience, revitalisation.​​
Neuroaffirming Therapeutic Support for The Magic Ones and their grown ups
Innovative Employment Support and Mentoring
Therapeutic, Peer-led and Creative Arts Community Groups
Training, Consulting
and Supervision
Creative Community Engagement & Participation
Workshops and Program Development
These our the Rainbow Muse Studio Warburton Offerings. If you want to see someone from the magical Rainbow Muse Collective in Ferntree Gully click here.
Chenai Is a Registered NDIS Provider for Therapeutic Supports and Innovative Community Participation and work with humans in the following ways:
I have worked therapeutically with people of all ages but will be moving towards focusing on children and young people. I use child-centred play therapy, and art therapy to meet my littlest clients where they are at, helping children make sense of the world in ways most relevant to them, through art, imagination, creativity and play​. I specialising in working with neurodivergent kid. I am a late diagnosed neurodivergent human myself and love heloing little humans make sense of the world.
still magical bigger ones
I prioritise working with people with marginalised identities as part of ensuring equitable access to identity affirming, inclusive , culturally responsive, liberatory mental health care. I celebrate all identities, abilities, and bodies. I use arts therapy, talk-based psychotherapy, trauma sensitive yoga in a multi-modal approach that facilitates body/mind integration and the creation of safety and emotional-regulation. I acknowledge that I am a an imperfect human just fumbling through so I do not have all the answers. I do believe in co-creating meaning and the healing power of authenticity, vulnerability, belonging, creativity, humour and community.
into the community
I also work with more of a focus on community participation with a focus on enhancing social inclusion for those feeling excluded. Care needs to move outside of individual therapy and work building capacity of eco-systems around people, fostering connection and encouraging active participation. Humans need support in breaking down of barriers that hinder inclusion and belonging. I am passionate about working with working alongside people outside of the "helper" "helpee" binaries to ensure equity, inclusion, and the amplification of the voices of people with disabilities with intersecting diverse identities.
Finding ways to authentically live
I offer gentle employment related counselling and business mentoring for NDIS participants needing accessible, empowering, innovative and creative employment pathways and options By pursuing their passions and developing skills individual empowerment can be achieved alongside actively participating in their communities. By removing barriers to access and creating supportive ways for people to engage participants can gain a sense of mastery, independence, and self-worth.
The Magic Ones is a new offering as part of Rainbow Muse. It's a love letter to the magically brained younger humans that enchant the world with their whimsy but need a little extra help navigating big feelings. My one-on-one therapy is now only for Magic Ones and the adults who support them.
The magic ones are neurodivergent, and it is through co-creating meaning with them I learned I was neurodivergent too! The world can feel tricky with all its rules, conventions, textures, sounds and changes. We figure it out together and I use my grown up words to teach the adults how to help.
Decolonial Practise
Acknowledging I am a settler on these lands. May all who I work alongside, join me in considering our ongoing roles in supporting the liberation, and restoration of Land, language, and culture for FIrst Nations Peoples as led by them.
Social Justice Oriented
Therapy that is social justice and liberation-oriented. Using a healing justice framework we can work on individual goals while being aware of and challenging systematic oppression and structural violence and injustice. Care with a commitment to LGBTQIA+, racial, neurodivergence, and disability Justice.
Arts-based praxis
Utalising creative arts-based methods in therapy, participatory action, research and community care. Rainbow Muse incoperates therapeutic arts practice as a mode of healing, connection making, activism and meaning making.
Walking Together
Fostering equitable and empowering relationships. I advocate for a sense of wellness not conditioned around ones capacity to best approximate a way of being neurotypical or normative in whatever way. There are many ways to be human, to be well and to thrive.
Holding Intersectionality
Care that is culturally affirming and sensitive, addressing the damages that are caused by ableism, colonialism, imperialism, and cishetero-patriarchy, and simultaneously confronting and repairing internalised bias and phobias.
Body and Mind
Connecting boy and mind and engaging in embodied practices for body-based emotional regulation. Incorporating create tools for mind/body integration, sensory modulation and through which we can simply play.
