Arts-based therapy & creative coaching to reconnect with your wise inner knowing.
You’re not alone.
Virgil Therapy offers a compassionate & creative space for becoming. We believe that each one of us has deeply wise, resilient, and joyful parts. We exist to help you get back in touch with them, through psychotherapy and the arts.
Based online and in Sydney’s Sutherland Shire.
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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 relational framework, we support you to process your feelings and support your nervous system in a gentle, emergent 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 creatives to overcome perfectionism, reconnect to flow state, and own their authentic voice in public, via an intimate, resource-filled coaching container.
Who we help
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Adults
We work with adults (predominatly women and LGBTQIA+ community members), seeking depth and creativity in therapy. Whatever you’re navigating, an arts-based approach offers a trauma-informed path towards wholeness and meaning.
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Teens & Children
We offer playful, sensory, and imaginative arts-based therapy sessions for young ones that nurture confidence and inner safety through the creative and expressive arts. Each session supports the client to find their own language for their unique experience.
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NDIS Participants
We offer accessible and affirming creative arts therapy for my fellow NDIS participants (self-managed and plan-managed). These client-centered therapy sessions help 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 post-modern, existential, and ecological perspectives, my approach is gentle, warm, and affirming. I centre your unique lived experience, guided by curiosity, witnessing, and the creative process itself as the path to wisdom and wholeness.
What is creative arts therapy?
Experiential and creative arts therapy (or just “art therapy”) is a recognised 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.
“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.
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.
