Creative Harmony Care

04/09/2026

Information for Prospective Clients, Families, Support Coordinators & Plan Managers 📋✨

1). Relevant Professional Background & Experience:

💼 Alongside my lifelong career as an international performing and recording musician and specialist music educator, I bring a multi-disciplinary background that bridges compassionate caregiving with high-level professional expertise:

💞NDIS & General Support: Individualised support, active listening, specialist capacity building, peer mentoring, and dignified personal accompaniment—backed by personal and professional experience across anxiety, depression, cPTSD, adult-diagnosed & childhood neurodivergence, immigrant & multicultural support, discrimination, family violence, general mental health management, addiction recovery, sexual & psychological abuse recovery, chronic pain management, perimenopause & menopause symptom management, osteoporosis & arthritis, hypermobility, aged care, dementia, and other complex care needs.

👶 Youth & Childcare: Au-pairing, babysitting, and creative mentoring focusing on self-expression, nurture, safety, and engagement.

💼 Project Management, Communication Management, Leadership & HR: Substantial leadership and management experience paired with warm, proactive communication, clear and supportive boundary setting, and collaborative coordination with families and allied health teams.

🗺️ Outreach & Event Coordination: Calm under pressure, adaptable in dynamic environments, and experienced in organising meaningful, structured outings—including designing and leading outreach music projects in schools & aged care homes to promote emotional wellbeing.

2). Who I Work With Across Life Stages:

🌱 I offer neuroaffirming, person-centred support tailored to each stage of life:

🧒 Kids & Teens: Dynamic, creative care that channels youthful energy into hands-on projects, curiosity, confidence, and practical life skills.

🧑 Young Adults & Youth: Mentoring focused on building autonomy, social connection, independent living routines, and navigating life transitions.

👵 Adults & Elders: Attentive, respectful companionship and daily routine support tailored to individual rhythms, dignity, personal interests, and comfort.

🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQ+ Community Members

🌏 Minority Group Members

3). Examples of Activities We Can Explore Together:

🌱 Personal Growth, Habit Building & Work-Life Balance: Cultivating positive daily routines, goal-setting, personal milestone tracking, and exploring sustainable strategies to balance professional life, personal well-being, and independent living.

🌊 Wellbeing: Yoga, mindfulness, meditation, breath-work, somatic grounding, aromatherapy, natural cosmetics & cleaning product creation.

🎯 Finding Flow & Peak Performance States: Exploring strategies, mindset shifts, and focus techniques to access flow states, boost creativity, and optimise personal or professional performance.

🎶 Creative Expression: Music, arts & crafts, journaling, poetry, dancing, and other creative projects.

📸 Photography: Capturing nature, wildlife, and creative moments during outings. 🌿📷

💫 Philosophy & Spirituality: Exploring contemplative traditions, personal reflections, moral values, spiritual beliefs, and metaphysical frameworks.

⚛️ Quantum Physics, Consciousness & Universe: Exploring quantum mechanics, modern physics, cosmology, and the nature of reality✨

🧠 Neuroscience & Psychology: Exploring cognitive science, mental wellbeing frameworks, and reflective discussions. 💡

🏄 Active & Outdoor Lifestyle: Surfing, swimming, outdoor play, hiking, walking, beach strolls, and active home- or nature-based strength-training & exercise routines. Hypermobility-informed movement.

🧩 Indoor Games and Puzzles: Strategic board games, card games, and engaging brain-teasers. 🎲

👩‍🌾 Practical Life Skills: Cooking together, routine planning, household organising, home decoration, DIY, and gardening.

🏛️ Community Connection: Art gallery and local library visits, music and performance events, market trips, and cosy café trips.

4). NDIS Compliance & Safety:

My clients’ safety, dignity, and peace of mind are my highest priorities. 🌟

I hold the following relevant compliance and safety certificates:

🛡️ NDIS Worker Screening Check (NWSC)

🌍 National and International (UK) Police Checks

👶 Working with Children Check (VIC)

💻 NDIS Worker Orientation Module: Quality, Safety and You

🚨 NDIS Worker Safeguards & Serious Incident Response Scheme (SIRS) Certified

👵 Aged Care & Dementia Care Code of Conduct (Standard 5) Certified

🩹 First Aid & CPR Certified

🚗 Current Victorian Driver’s Licence & Registered Vehicle (TAC Covered)

5). Qualifications & Education:

🎶 Bachelor of Music / First Class Honours (4 years /Royal College of Music, London)

🎻 Master of Performance / Distinction (2 years /Royal College of Music, London)

🗂️ Project Management Diploma (Albright Institute, Melbourne)

🏫 Teacher Training & Students Associates Scheme (Teacher Training Agency, London)

🧘 Peer Wellbeing Support Certificate — Pursuit of Happiness

🌱 200hr Yoga Teacher Training (YTT) — (Ongoing)

🌿 Transcendental Meditation (TM) Course & Advanced Practitioner Workshop (Maharishi Foundation Australia)

🧠 Ongoing Professional Development in Person-Centred & Trauma-Informed Care

🧩 Ongoing Professional Development in Neurodivergence-Informed Care, Holistic Wellbeing & Personal Growth

6). Practical Details & How to Book:

💳 Funding Options: Welcoming self-managed NDIS, plan-managed NDIS, and private clients.

🗺️ Service Area: Torquay, Jan Juc, Anglesea, Aireys Inlet, Bellbrae, Ocean Grove, Barwon Heads, and surrounding Surf Coast / Bellarine regions.

📍 Location: Surf Coast, VIC 🦘

⏰ Current Availability: Tuesdays to Saturdays | Flexible hours / morning & afternoon slots.

📝 References available upon request.

7). Get in Touch:

💌 Whether you are a participant, family member, or support coordinator looking for a reliable, engaging, and compassionate specialist support worker or peer mentor, I’d love to connect:

📧 Email: [email protected] ✉️

💬 Note on Direct Messaging: Please note that this page is not monitored and you are advised against attempting to contact me via Messenger. 🚫📲

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Ways We Can Work Together | Creative Harmony Care 🌿✨

I treat every person as a unique universe, offering a bespoke approach centred on genuine human connection. Support is structured across four distinct pathways across Creative Harmony Care and the Centre for Creative Harmony:

1). 1:1 Core Support & Attentive Companionship 🌊
(Creative Harmony Care)

For individuals wanting a reliable, grounded, and engaging presence for daily life, shared interests, and community access. A relaxed, low-pressure space focused on shared activities, active living, and everyday flow:

🏄 Active Outdoor Grounding: Coastal trail walks, swimming, surfing, or quiet nature immersion.
🎨 Tactile Crafts & Making: Shared making sessions (jewellery, art, crafts).
🏡 Everyday Flow: Attentive support at home, in the garden, and out in the community.

💳 NDIS Funding: Category 04 (Core Supports) for Self-Managed and Plan-Managed participants, or available privately.

2). Adaptive Music Mentoring & Creative Capacity Building 🎶
(Creative Harmony Care)

A bespoke, science-backed 1:1 space blending adaptive instrumental engagement, creative expression, and practical functional capacity building. Tailored for all ages and life stages—including neurodivergent individuals (auDHD, ADHD, sensory differences), those supporting cognitive maintenance and neuroplasticity, or individuals rebuilding motor pathways and joint mobility (e.g. post-surgical recovery, neurological rehabilitation, or arthritis management):

🧠 Neuroplasticity & Cognitive Agility: Stimulating neural pathways, working memory, processing speed, and focus through multi-sensory musical engagement.
🤲 Fine Motor Dexterity & Physical Rehabilitation: Adaptive instrument handling and tactile play to rebuild bilateral integration, motor planning, joint mobility, and physical ease.
🎧 Sensory Regulation & Neural Grounding: Harnessing acoustic resonance, rhythm, and vibrational feedback for nervous-system regulation and physiological calm.
📋 Executive Function: Task sequencing, active listening, attention span building, and working memory support.
✨ Confidence & Creative Agency: Restoring self-esteem, autonomy, and emotional expression through low-pressure, adaptive musical exploration.

💳 NDIS Funding: Categories 15 & 09 (Capacity Building) for Self-Managed and Plan-Managed participants, or available privately.

3). Specialist Peer Mentoring & Capacity-Building 🌱
(Creative Harmony Care)

For individuals seeking intentional guidance, nervous-system tools, and practical self-transformation. Drawing on lived auDHD experience, academic research, and decades of mentoring, these sessions draw upon a bespoke Library of Tools:

🌿 Sensory Regulation: Practical strategies to manage overload, navigate sensory environments, and maintain nervous system equilibrium.
🧭 Executive Function: Task flow, sequencing, organisation, and real-world routines built around how your brain naturally operates.
💡 Creative Identity & Self-Enquiry: Hands-on creative inquiry to unlock focus, clarity, and authentic self-expression.
🧘 Somatic & Grounding Practices: Tailored breathwork and grounded mindfulness techniques to restore physiological calm.
🛡️ Self-Advocacy & Autonomy: Cultivating self-trust, resilience, and practical tools to navigate the world on your own terms.

💳 NDIS Funding: Categories 15 & 09 (Capacity Building) for Self-Managed and Plan-Managed participants, or available privately.

4). Holistic Music / Performing Arts Mentoring & Instrumental Coaching 🎻
(Centre for Creative Harmony)

For students, aspiring artists, and established players seeking high-level instrumental training, technical mastery, and creative flow:

🎼 Artistic Development & Coaching: Specialist violin tuition, multi-instrumental coaching, composition, and holistic creative mentoring tailored to all ages and neurotypes

💳 NDIS Funding: Categories 09 & 15 (Capacity Building) for Self-Managed and Plan-Managed participants working toward creative skill acquisition, community participation, or vocational pathways, or available privately.

Note: Private artistic tuition and formal instrumental coaching are run separately under my creative education practice, Centre for Creative Harmony.
🔗 Explore music offerings & creative studio tuition: DunYa Centre of Creative Harmony / Dunja Lavrova / Dunya Loverover

💡 A Note on NDIS Funding & Plan Verification
All services are structured to align with NDIS guidelines for Core (Category 04) and Capacity Building (Categories 09 & 15). Because every NDIS plan is individualised, participants and families are encouraged to verify that they have sufficient uncommitted funds in their “my NDIS portal”, or confirm with their Support Coordinator / Plan Manager that supports align with their active goals prior to commencing.

📩 Getting Started: Self-Managed and Plan-Managed NDIS participants of all ages, as well as private clients, are warmly welcome.

Please get in touch at [email protected]
to request the full Service Guide and schedule of fees.

01/09/2026

Welcome to Creative Harmony Care ✨

👋 My name is Dunja, and I’m so glad you’re here!

🌿 I provide Specialist Capacity-Building, authentic Peer Support, and dedicated 1:1 care across all stages of life—informed by my signature holistic methodology, doctoral-level research, and a lifetime of personal and high-stakes professional experience. Based on the Surf Coast, I work alongside Self-Managed NDIS, Plan-Managed NDIS, and private clients.

My Background:

🎨 Recognised very early in life, my innate prodigious gifts were initially expressed through visual arts, crafts, and writing, and soon channelled into intensive music and violin training from age 3.

🎻This rapidly plunged me into the high-pressure world of childhood performances, international tours, and competitions by age 8.

🌏 By 13, that momentum took me away from my family and birth country—navigating immigration, new cultures, and unfamiliar societies, eventually propelling me into high-stakes global careers across three continents.

🧠 Facing these environments as a sensitive child with unrecognised auDHD—and extremely limited support or accommodations—demanded that I learn self-regulation and self-reliance under intense pressure.

🔍 To decode my mind and the world around me, I began a lifelong journey of self-enquiry at age 11, exploring the study of human consciousness, Western psychology, the dynamics of human behaviour, and ancient Eastern traditions.

💡 As I learnt to find my flow within a society where I often felt like 'an alien', I now know that it was my fearless curiosity, boundless creativity, and relentless positivity which helped me move beyond mere survival into immense self-awareness, hard-won self-acceptance, and genuine, long-lasting growth.

🌈 My life has played out in full, vivid technicolour: a journey driven by relentless inquiry, radical reinventions, and life-changing transformations.

🧘 As a result, I’ve distilled a 32-year career as a globally recognised violinist and 20+ years as a specialist educator into a life of intentional flow, anchored by 13 years of yoga and meditation—which I share with the world via my holistic creativity and music education initiative under the umbrella of "Centre for Creative Harmony", and now bring into Specialist Support Work under "Creative Harmony Care".

✨ Ultimately, at Creative Harmony Care, you’ll find a playful, inquisitive, safe space where we can work in harmony with your unique rhythms, explore practical possibilities that work for you, and nurture your own power for magical self-transformation.

📌 Check out my pinned featured posts for service pathways, my Library of Tools, and practical booking details

21/08/2026

Raising funds for Black Dog Institute Research back in September 2025 🙂

(How to naturally boost Serotonin Levels!)

21/08/2026

This Good-Vibe-Booster is a personal favourite of mine: the endless benefits of GARDENING! 🪷🧑‍🌾🌿

My garden is not only my pride and joy—I started it from absolute zero!—but also my sacred space and haven. 🦄🥰✨

The moment I step into it, I find an instant sense of peace, quiet, and purpose.
It deeply connects me both with my ancestral roots, AND with nature. 🪾🌈

Creatively, my garden really inspires me, and constantly reconnects me of my own values & beliefs:

* As I pull out the weeds, I also clear my own head of harmful worries, or thoughts that don’t serve my greater purpose. 🧠

* My garden is constantly changing, reminding me to stay flexible, innovative, and IN THE FLOW. 🌊

* It makes me become entirely present in the moment🧘‍♀️ - ALL whilst daydreaming!.. 🤷‍♀️😶‍🌫️

* It embodies my own metaphor about “planting seeds” in my mind: when I have a creative idea or need to come up with a solution, I don’t force it. Instead, I plant the seed in my mind, staying aware of it in my subconscious, and nurturing it to grow at its own pace. 🌱

(It’s therefore no coincidence that it is the space where I come up with some of my best creative ideas and solutions, whether I’m tending to it or just enjoying it at different times of the day.💡)🪄✨🦄

With its many magical nooks, my garden IS a place of escape - but ALSO a space of deep presence.

I meditate there first thing in the morning and last thing at night, contemplate and even work there during the day. 👩‍💻

As night falls, it becomes the perfect spot for my signature “stargazing meditations.” 💫🥰

I could go on and on about my garden, but if you’re still not convinced - you don’t have to take my word for it! 🤷‍♀️
Below is some more info about the research into the many benefits of gardening! ⤵️

Research shows that Gardening…👩‍🌾

• Boosts Mood and Combats Depression: All that digging and being in the sun can help your body make more serotonin, and watching things grow gives you a real sense of accomplishment.

• Gives You a Sense of Purpose: Caring for something gives you a routine and a reason to get up and get going, especially on days when you don't feel like it (hello, endorphins!).

• Reduces Stress and Anxiety: It's a great way to be mindful and focus on the moment, which helps you clear your mind of your worries.

• Improves Attention and Focus: Getting your hands dirty with a real, tangible task can help sharpen your attention and concentration.

• Encourages Physical Activity: All the raking, digging, and planting is a gentle way to get your body moving, which is a BIG plus for your mental wellbeing!

Music 🎶 Credit: Babe Rainbow’s “Planet Junior” 🌈

21/08/2026

This was my first watercolour since I was a kid! 😳😱 (I prefer other mediums, but I was practising PATIENCE in my artistic endeavours at the time!.. 😅⏳)

It is what I call “My Happy Place”, inspired by the impossible-to-capture sunsets I experienced on a beach in South Australia while my family were living off-grid there in March 2024!.. 🌅🌊

I tried my best to do it justice, but it’s nearly impossible to capture a moment in time🌀, especially whilst using a new medium!.. 🎨

Anyway, if this little glimpse into my “happy place” brings you some joy too, please consider donating to the Black Dog Institute! 🙏

Let’s keep rising! 💪🐦‍🔥
Please donate, and help a good cause!

🎶 Music credit: Tame Impala’s “Yesterday”

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