Dr. Stacey Hatch: Research, Private Practice Tips, and Seeing Clients at Home | Ep 137

Fearless Practice

Life can take us in many different directions, and what helps is how we can make use of the knowledge that we acquire when exploring these routes.

For today’s guest, Dr. Stacey Hatch followed her passion for psychology and working with people all the way from her near two-decade work experience in television to now running her own successful Canadian private practice!

In this podcast episode, we talk about her journey into counselling, how she managed to complete her studies while teaching and working, and advice on seeing clients directly out of your home.

MEET STACEY

Stacey is a clinician-educator-researcher. She is a registered psychotherapist and worked in primary mental healthcare at the Prince Edward Family Health Team for ten years, where she saw patients across the lifespan. She also served as the mental health lead and coordinator of the Mint Memory Clinic for seven years. She has a private practice in Prince Edward County where she sees clients in person and virtually. She provides psychotherapy within a trauma-informed approach in inclusive and equitable spaces. Dr. Hatch also holds adjunct professor positions at Athabasca University and Yorkville University and is a post-doctoral fellow at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

Learn more about Stacey on her website and Psychology Today profile.

In this episode:

• Stacey’s career

• Pursuing a private practice while researching and teaching

• Balancing work commitments

• Offering therapy from your home

• Marketing tips

• Dr. Hatch’s private practice advice

Stacey’s career

Stacey’s successful therapy career that she’s thriving in now started many years ago as a job in television!

Dr. Hatch’s journey to her private practice today has been a roundabout route, but she took many of her lifelong inspirations and interests forward and brought her experience together to now do what she is passionate about.

After her years working in television, Stacey began doing volunteer work in her local hospice, and that’s when the desire to work in therapy really clicked into place for her.

From launching the hospice with the board, Stacey started taking psychology classes and completed her Master’s Degree in Counselling Psychology. Afterward, Dr. Hatch spent time working in a primary care clinic, and it’s an experience that she recommends to every therapist and counsellor.

Pursuing a private practice while researching and teaching

Even though some things ended up coming together serendipitously, many of the threads that wove Dr. Stacey Hatch’s career up until now did support one another and were built into her career together.

Balancing work commitments

Slowly but surely, Dr. Hatch is finding her work/ life balance.

It may have taken some time, but she is discovering that the more she puts in systems and helpful routines or mindsets, the more that she can do without becoming overly stressed or pressured.

Stacey also offers virtual sessions, and she even takes clients for sessions in a home office room.

Offering therapy from your home

Marketing tips

Some of Dr. Hatch’s most used marketing tools are;

• A website that she loves and that showcases her Canadian private practice well

• Uploading up-to-date blogs for new potential clients to read over

• Connecting her website with her consultation platform to allow clients to book an initial consultation immediately

• Maintains a Psychology Today profile and updates it regularly

Dr. Hatch’s private practice advice

Find out when you feel the brightest and work the best! Pace yourself, and work in the periods throughout the day when you are excited and open to working with them, rather than forcing yourself to work in periods when you struggle to do any work at all.

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Learn more about Stacey on her website and Psychology Today profile

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