Christopher Brown is an artist and art therapist currently in private practice after retiring from careers in mental health and higher education.

Helen Omand is an artist and art therapist working in a therapeutic studio and as a lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Foreword: Tessa Dalley; Introduction, Christopher Brown & Helen Omand; PART I: FRAMES OF REFERENCE; 1. Historical perspectives, Christopher Brown & Helen Omand; 2. Literature review, Helen Omand & Dalaila Bumanglag; 3. How might studios help? Further thoughts on the significance of studios, Chris Wood; 4. The influential idea of the studio in the thinking and practice of U.S. art therapists, Lynn Kapitan; 5. Studio Upstairs: a working arts studio with a therapeutic concern - beginnings, Claire Manson, Douglas Gill, David Fried; 6. Art therapy in an art school: learning through studio practice, Philippa Brown; 7. Studio encounters: a personal view of shifting frames in art therapy, Christopher Brown; PART II: MODELS OF PRACTICE; 8. The Community Table: developing art therapy studios on, in-between and across borders, Bobby Lloyd & Miriam Usiskin; 9. Transitioning into visibility: exhibiting art from a therapeutic group for the intended purpose of knowledge sharing, education, social action and social change in the northern Canadian community, Zoe Armstrong; 10. The wall inside: painting with young offenders, Ben Wakeling; 11. Inside-outside: on being art focussed, Steve Pratt; 12. Making art alongside each other in a therapeutic art studio: exploring the space between us, Helen Omand and Patsy McMahon; 13. Terms of engagement: aspects of facilitating open art therapy groups for adults in a psychiatric inpatient setting, Annamaria Cavaliero; 14. Family residential art therapy studio model: in discussion with a parent and member of the open-studio group, Kristen Catchpole; PART III: CURATING, EXHIBITING, AND ARCHIVING; 15. Looking at the curation of art made by older adults in a median art therapy group, Kristina Page; 16. Exploring experiences of exhibiting artwork from a therapeutic art studio for refugees and asylum seekers, Jon Martyn;17. Private to public: exhibition in art therapy, Mary Andrus; 18. Making space: art, the studio, and exhibition in homelessness services, Simon Richardson; 19. Reliquary for the departed: archiving and collections, Christopher Brown & Helen Omand