Honouring your inner creative intelligence and alongside you on the path of becoming.
Art. Soul. Psyche.
I’m Jerico Mandybur (AThR, M.A), a registered experiential and creative arts psychotherapist and coach for creatives.
I came to this work because I needed it. Through therapy, I've experienced the slow (often non-linear) process of making meaning from life's great challenges. I’m not an expert in your story. I’m a companion on your journey; walking alongside you with respect, curiosity, and compassion.
My work integrates creative expression, embodied inquiry, and trauma-informed relational presence to support clients through complex emotional experiences, identity exploration, and meaning-making.
I combine evidence-based rigour with a sensitivity to the somatic, imaginal, and transpersonal dimensions of healing.
I’m also the author of five books and tarot/oracle decks (which have been translated into seven languages) and my work has been featured in publications like New York Magazine, LA Times, VOGUE, New York Times, and more.
My public therapeutic workshops and talks have been held at places like the Sydney Opera House’s All About Women festival, TEDx, The Galeries, and The Hoxton.
With an attuned, curious, and non-hierarchical style, I offer a compassionate container for women, LGBTIQ+, and young people above 8 years to engage with inner complexity and emerge with greater clarity, resilience, and wholeness.
Lived experience
I value offering a therapeutic relationship that deeply affirms my client’s stories, identities, and potentialities. For clients who value the role of lived experience, my own includes an intimate understanding of:
꩜ The immigrant and culturally mixed experience.
꩜ The LGBTQIA+ community.
꩜ Living with AuDHD.
My experiences have confirmed that healing and meaning-making are a relational, creative, and decolonial process. Art-making, embodiment, relationship, and reverence for the animate world have sustained me through my own experiences. And I’ve found, can lead to generative new ways of being and doing. My practice now is to walk alongside others, no matter their identities or labels, supporting them to experience a deeper sense of belonging and aliveness.
Training
I am professionally registered with ANZACATA and the Meditation Association of Australia, and I’m engaged in ongoing clinical supervision and professional development.
Qualifications & Training:
Master of Therapeutic Arts Practice (2025)
Diploma of Meditation Teaching & Earth-Based Mindfulness (2021)
Complex Trauma Training Certificate - CCTP1 (currently)
Jungian Core Concepts Training (2026)
Certificate in Autistic Wellbeing (2022)
Qualified Somatic Coach and Creative Coach (2019, 2021)
B.A (1st Hons) Art History & Theory, Gender Studies (2009)
Post-Grad Diploma of Advanced Journalism (2011)
National Police Check, Working With Children Check, NDIS Screening
Frameworks
My approach is steeped in gestalt therapy, parts work, relational therapy, and the MIECAT form of inquiry; an arts-based therapeutic inquiry framework that values phenomenological and post-modern approaches, emergence, and multimodal forms of expression as profound sources of knowledge.
The now moment
I approach each session meeting the present moment as it is. This means letting go of “fixing” or “outcomes” and instead, cultivating curiosity about what is happening between us—sensations, images, emotions, gestures—as pathways to greater understanding.
The somatic
The body is a vital part of our creative and emotional life. Art-making and creative expression can act as a bridge to a embodied awareness. Grounding and sensory awareness practices support nervous-system regulation and deepen connection to the here and now.
The more-than-human
Ecological and depth paradigms tell us that healing happens in relationship; with self, others, the natural environment, and the symbolic. Art allows us to connect to both our materials, our inner knowing, as well to our sense of belonging to the human and more-than-human world.
"The wound is the place where the light enters you." — Rumi
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"The wound is the place where the light enters you." — Rumi •
Tarot: A therapeutic & creative approach
Alongside being a creative arts therapist, I’m also a tarot author and scholar. As such, some clients may be curious to incorporate the tarot into sessions as a therapeutic modality.
I view tarot cards as an imaginal, symbolic language that can offer powerful metaphors for our experience. When it resonates with a client, I’m happy to incorporate the tarot (or an assortment of other card decks) into creative arts therapy sessions. From an archetypal framework, the images within the tarot may offer a wider, higher perspective on a current tension; a creative thought experiment and a potential new way of seeing, or being with, an issue.
Used with therapeutic intention and an embrace of our experience in the present moment, the cards become another form of creativity. A dialogue between different parts of yourself, in service of insight and wholeness. Curious clients are welcome to express interest at their own leisure.
Ethics
As a professional member of ANZACATA (the Australian, New Zealand and Asian Creative Arts Therapies Association) I abide by their Code of Ethics and Professional Practice, which upholds principles of integrity, confidentiality, and respect for the dignity and autonomy of all individuals.
This includes:
Maintaining professional boundaries and confidentiality
Practising within my scope and qualifications
Respecting cultural, spiritual, and individual diversity
Prioritising informed consent and client safety
Commitment to ongoing professional development and supervision
Read the full ANZACATA Code of Ethics.
Thresholds
A newsletter.
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