Evaluation and review of art psychotherapy in private practice

This article considers the ways in which gathering evaluative evidence may be inhibited when working beyond the supportive frameworks provided by an employing organisation. While recognising these difficulties, the article then focuses on the differences in the practice setting and the ways in which visual arts-based methodologies are evolving. Two arts-based evaluation methods are described – the ‘retrospective review’ and the ‘reflect interview and audio-image recording’. This article also considers how art psychotherapists in private practice might adapt these methodologies in order to gather arts-based evaluative evidence within a collaborative client/therapist paradigm