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Arts-based therapy & creative coaching to reconnect with your inner wisdom.

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You’re not alone.

Virgil Therapy offers a compassionate, creative space for becoming—online and in Sydney’s Sutherland Shire. Through experiential and creative arts therapy, I support you to listen and reconnect: to your body, your values, the world around you, and your deepest inner knowing. So that you can move through life with greater clarity, resilience, and self-trust.

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  • Creative Arts Psychotherapy

    Art as self-discovery. You’re invited to explore your inner world through image-making, dialogue, and metaphor. We work together to support emotional insight, resilience, and self-expression—no artistic ‘skill’ required.

  • Integrative Counselling

    By approaching psychotherapy from an experiential, creative, and depth-inclusive framework, I support you to process your feelings and support your nervous system in a gentle, relational way.

  • Mindfulness & Somatics

    Learn to slow down and reconnect with your body’s innate wisdom. Through grounding practices, meditation, and embodied awareness, we learn to tolerate the full spectrum of our emotional states.

  • Coaching For Creatives

    A supportive, actioned-oriented space for creative professionals to overcome perfectionism, reconnect to flow state, and own their authentic voice in public, via an intimate, resource-filled coaching container.

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About Virgil Therapy

Hi, I’m Jerico Mandybur, AThR (she/her). I’m a professionally registered experiential and arts-based therapist, award-winning author and creative coach, and the founder of Virgil Therapy. Rooted in relational, multimodal, and ecological perspectives, my approach is gentle, warm, and affirming. I centre the client’s lived experience, curiosity, witnessing, and the creative process itself as the path to wisdom and wholeness.

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Who I help

  • Adults

    I work with adults, especially women and LGBTQIA+ community members, seeking depth and creativity in the therapeutic process. Whatever you’re navigating, arts-based therapy offers a trauma-informed path towards wholeness and meaning.

  • Teens & Children

    Playful, sensory, and imaginative arts-based therapy sessions for young ones that nurtures confidence and inner safety through the arts. Each session supports the client to find their own language for their unique experience.

  • NDIS Participants

    Accessible and affirming creative arts therapy for self-managed and plan-managed NDIS participants, led by an ND registered art therapist. Designed to support emotional wellbeing, authentic communication, and self-expression.

Services

Offering

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  • Trauma-informed sessions held online or in-person (outdoors in Bundeena, Royal National Park) to explore and honour your emotional landscape through creative, somatic, and reflective processes for wellbeing. NDIS-funding welcome.

  • Intimate arts therapy groups exploring particular experiences, themes, or multimodal materials. Made to foster community, expression, inclusion, and mutual support.

  • Collaborative arts workshops and initiatives designed for a wide range of community groups, using collective creativity as a form of connection, meaning-making, and social care.

  • Facilitated workshops and wellbeing programs for professional workplaces and teams. Build connection, creativity, and emotional literacy through participatory arts-based experiences.

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What is creative arts therapy?

Experiential and creative arts therapy is a form of psychotherapy that uses the present moment and the creative process—painting, collage, movement, writing, sound, gestures, and more—as a way to explore emotions and experiences that words alone can’t express. It’s not about making art that looks good; it’s about gently exploring new ways of seeing, feeling, knowing, and being. At Virgil Therapy, the arts offer us a way to practice being; a somatic bridge between our historic patterns and potential new possibilities.

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“Creativity is the way the soul makes itself known.” — Shaun McNiff

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“Creativity is the way the soul makes itself known.” — Shaun McNiff •

  • "Jerico’s approach is gentle, curious, and transforming. I felt they 'saw' me...”

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  • "Since working with Jerico, I feel more connected and curious towards my creativity, intuition, and the whole world.

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  • "I now feel more motivated, grounded, and grateful. Jerico helped bring me back in touch with myself."

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  • "I've gently coaxed myself out of overwhelm by creating a rhythm of rest, self-encouragement, and creative play."

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Thresholds

A newsletter.

Thresholds is the Substack of Jerico Mandybur. A place where she offers regular essays, personal reflections, and creative practices exploring the art of inner life. Subscribe now for your FREE 20-min somatic centering practice.

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Get in touch

Ready to begin? Whatever you’re curious about, feel free to reach out. Use the form below to enquire, or simply book a complimentary 15-minute call to learn more about how we might work together.

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