Interior Design’s Impact in a Treatment Facility: A Catalyst on Simulating the Healing Process of Performance Anxiety in the Professional Industry

The design of the built-environment individuals occupy everyday on a daily basis, has an impact on our mental health and well-being. Important to interior designers is to provide an environment to fit the needs of their client. Good design means users experience psychological contentment in a successfully designed space. The aim of this thesis is to discover how to best design a treatment facility suitable for users well-being. To include purposeful design stimulation and enhancements for all users of the facility. The patient focus of this facility is those people who suffer from performance anxiety in public and professional industries. That is, those who are professional performers, public speakers, and post-secondary students. This thesis explores how interior design elements, to include spatial design factors, can have an impact on patients. This thesis explores how interior design can alter patient fears. Furthermore, this thesis discusses findings that support the importance of the principles and elements of design that can act as a catalyst to aid the healing process of patients with performance anxiety.