Trauma Therapy & First Responder Psychotherapy | Aurora, Ontario

Two decades of meeting people exactly where they
need to be met.

Joddie Walker is a Registered Psychotherapist and the founding Clinical Director of
Hummingbird Therapy Clinic. She built the clinic on a simple belief: that thoughtful, evidence-based therapy should be accessible to anyone navigating something hard — a child, a teenager, an adult, a couple, a family, or a person whose job exposes them to other people’s worst days.
Joddie’s team brings clinical depth across the lifespan. They support kids and youth through play, art, and skills-based therapy. They walk with adults through anxiety, depression, grief, and life transitions. They help couples and families re-find each other. And they bring a particular fluency to first-responder culture — firefighters, paramedics, police, corrections, dispatch, and the families who carry the work home with them.

Whatever brought you here, you don’t need to have the right words for it yet. You just need a place where someone can listen, and where the work that comes next is shaped around you.

01 — Method. Evidence-based.
Modalities chosen for the person, not the trend. CBT, EMDR-informed work, somatic regulation, mindfulness skills, music and art for younger clients, and group debriefing — appliedwith clinical precision.

02 — Lens. Trauma-informed.
Pace, choice, and safety are not extras — they’re the structure of every interaction. We assume nothing, push nothing, and build trust before we ask anything of you.

03 — Fit. First Responder Culturally aware.
Care that fits your life, your work, your family system, your stage of life. From a kindergartener afraid of the dark to a chief two years from retirement — the approach changes; the respect
doesn’t.

01 Children
Music art, and skills-based therapy from age 4 and up.

02 Youth & Teens
School stress, identity, anxiety, and the bigness of growing up.

03 Adults
Anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and life transitions.

04 Couples & Families
Communication, conflict, parenting, and healing together.

05 First Responders
Active and retired — police, fire, EMS, corrections, dispatch.

06 Helping Professionals
Nurses, physicians, victim advocates, and frontline workers.

07 Spouses & Loved Ones
Support for the families standing beside someone in a hard role.

08 Therapists & Clinicians
Clinical supervision and vicarious-trauma