Arts-based therapy to reconnect with your wise inner guide.
You’re not alone.
Virgil Therapy offers a compassionate, creative space for becoming—online and in Sydney’s Sutherland Shire. I offer experiential and creative arts therapy that supports you to listen and connect—to your body, to your values, to the world around you, and to your deepest inner knowing.
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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.
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Integrative Counselling
By approaching psychotherapy from an experiential, creative, and spiritually-inclusive framework, I support you to process your feelings and support your nervous system in a gentle, relational way.
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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.
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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.
About Virgil Therapy
Hi, I’m Jerico Mandybur, AThR. I’m a professionally registered experiential and creative arts therapist, award-winning author, and the founder of Virgil Therapy. Rooted in relational, ecological, and archetypal perspectives, my approach is trauma-informed and neuro-affirming—centering curiosity and the therapeutic creative process as the path to wisdom and wholeness.
Offering
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Personalised, 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.
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Intimate arts therapy groups exploring particular experiences, themes, or multimodal materials. Made to foster community, expression, inclusion, and mutual support.
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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.
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Facilitated workshops and wellbeing programs for professional workplaces and teams. Build connection, creativity, and emotional literacy through participatory arts-based experiences.
Who I help
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Adults
For those seeking depth and creativity in the therapeutic process. Whatever you’re navigating, arts therapy offers a trauma-informed path towards healing and reconnecting with your inner wisdom.
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Teens & Children
Playful and imaginative therapy sessions (ages 8+) that nurture confidence and inner safety through the arts. Each session supports young people find their own language for their unique experience.
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NDIS Participants
Accessible and affirming creative arts therapy for self-managed and plan-managed NDIS participants. Designed to support emotional wellbeing, authentic, communication, and self-expression.
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 bridge between our historic patterns and potential new possibilities.
“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 •
Thresholds
A newsletter by Virgil Therapy.
A companion for your journey inward, 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.
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.
