Life does not always move in a straight line. Sometimes the work that shapes us most comes from the challenges we never planned for.
Dr. Andrew Hatch began his career as a chiropractor, driven by a deep interest in helping people improve their health, function, and quality of life. After years of working hands-on with patients, a repetitive stress injury forced him to step away from clinical practice and rethink the future he had built.
What could have ended his ability to help others became the beginning of a new chapter.
Rather than walking away from healthcare altogether, Andrew returned to university to pursue advanced training in counselling and clinical psychology. That transition expanded the way he understood healing. Physical pain, burnout, anxiety, depression, identity struggles, and emotional exhaustion are often deeply connected, especially for people who carry responsibility, work with their hands, create for a living, or spend years pushing themselves beyond healthy limits.
Today, Andrew combines his background in healthcare, psychology, creativity, and lived experience to help people navigate mental health in a practical, grounded, and human way.
His work is especially focused on makers, tradespeople, creatives, entrepreneurs, and individuals who often feel caught between productivity and personal wellbeing. Drawing from years of experience as both a healthcare professional and small business owner, Andrew understands the pressures of building, providing, creating, and trying to hold everything together while quietly struggling underneath.
Through counselling, speaking, writing, and projects like The Workshop Therapy Podcast, he explores the intersection of creativity, identity, resilience, skill development, and mental health. His approach blends evidence-based psychology with authentic conversation, practical tools, and a strong belief that meaningful work, creativity, and community can play an important role in healing.
Andrew believes mental health care should not feel cold, clinical, or disconnected from real life. It should help people become more capable, more connected, and more fully themselves.
Anxiety and stress management
Depression and burnout
Identity and purpose
Creativity and mental health
Men’s mental health
Trades and maker community wellbeing
Personal growth and resilience
Narrative and meaning-centred approaches
Skill development and confidence building
Whether you are struggling with stress, feeling stuck, navigating burnout, or trying to reconnect with purpose and creativity, support is available.
If you are looking for counselling that understands the realities of work, responsibility, creativity, and everyday life, Andrew would be honoured to work with you.
Ready to take the next step?
Reach out to book a consultation or learn more about available counselling services.