About Us

Director

Dr. Margaret Walker  
D.Clin.Psych., MSc. (Psychology), GDSc. (Psychology), B.A. MAPS
Clinical Psychologist

As Director of the Psychology, Trauma & Mindfulness Centre, Dr Walker aims to develop and provide a comprehensive trauma treatment service on the Mornington Peninsula which can offer the most recent research and evidence-based trauma interventions both from Australia and internationally.

Dr Walker specialises in the treatment of complex trauma, including childhood and adult sexual and physical assault, Personality Disorders, Depression and Anxiety disorders; she is experienced in the diagnosis and treatment of trauma-related dissociative presentations, anxiety and mood disorders, substance and process addictions, and the impacts of intimate/partner/family violence.

Dr Walker has expertise in a range of evidence-based treatments including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectic Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Schema Therapy, and Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR). Dr Walker is an Accredited EMDR Practitioner, and has Advanced Level Certification as an Individual Schema Therapist and Schema Therapy Trainer-Supervisor from the International Society of Schema Therapy (ISST).

Dr Walker has a particular interest in the treatment of trauma-related presentations with experience working in the Public, Private and Non-Government mental health sectors. This has included Westmead and Cumberland Hospitals in NSW as an active member of the Westmead/Cumberland Dialectical Behaviour Therapy team; Dympna House – Child Sexual Assault Counselling and Resource Centre; and Directions ACT – Drug Resource and Information Centre in Canberra - a primary care harm-minimisation centre providing counselling, youth support, information, community education and advocacy, and needle exchange. Dr Walker has been working in Private Practice since 2010.