Dr Carla Walton is the Service Director of the Centre for Psychotherapy, a specialist service for Borderline Personality Disorder and Eating Disorders within Hunter New England Mental Health Service.

Carla has significant expertise in the treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder. She is trained in a number of treatment models for Borderline Personality Disorder and provides training to clinicians particularly in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy.

Her PhD focussed on evaluation of two psychotherapies (Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and the Conversational Model) in a real-world treatment setting.

Alongside the Service Director role, Carla is currently a Clinical and Health Service Research Fellow with Hunter New England Local Health District. In her fellowship research, she is expanding her focus from the specialist service to a whole of service approach for Borderline Personality Disorder and looking at improving the quality and consistency of care provided to individuals with a diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder across Hunter New England Mental Health Service.

Carla’s main research interests are linked to identification and evaluation of effective, efficient, and equitable treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder.