// Case studies
What changed, and how we know.
Nine studio builds, community partnerships and care programmes, written up with the brief we were given, the decisions we made and the numbers we measured afterwards.
Featured · Studio spaces
Calm Water Way Studio
A 1930s printworks turned into six therapy rooms, a quiet library and a courtyard. The brief was one sentence: nothing in the building should ask a person to perform being fine.
14
months, brief to open
6
rooms, plus courtyard
-38%
first-session no-shows
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2021
A waiting room that people were avoiding, rebuilt as a reading room
with no reception desk and no queue.
2022
A structured opening to therapy for new clients, designed to remove
the gap between enquiry and first session.
2022
Weekly guided sessions across four secondary schools, run with
pastoral staff rather than alongside them.
2023
One room reworked so that a parent, a child and a guide could sit
together without anyone taking the head of the table.
