Arts-based therapy & creative coaching 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 to women, the queer community, and young people 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.
Who I help
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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.
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Teens & Children
Playful, sensory, and imaginative arts-based therapy sessions for young people (ages 8+) that nurture confidence and inner safety through the arts. Each session supports the client to 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, led by an ND registered art therapist. Designed to support emotional wellbeing, authentic communication, and self-expression.
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.
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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.
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, ecological, and archetypal 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.
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.
