Dr. Walton grew up in Houston and graduated from UT Austin and UT Health Science Center at Houston. She completed her Psychiatry residency at Washington University Medical School in St. Louis, Missouri. Dr. Walton is Board Certified in General Psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and is a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.
After returning to Texas in 2007, she spent 13 years at Seton Healthcare family caring for patients experiencing mental health crises, and training medical students and residents from UTMB Galveston, Texas A&M, UT Southwestern Medical School, and the Dell Medical School. During her time at Seton, Dr. Walton also served as the Chief Medical Officer of Seton Shoal Creek Hospital and the Associate Chief of the Ascension Texas Mental Health Service Line. She maintains a faculty appointment in the Dell Medical School Department of Psychiatry.
After 13 years of treating people in crisis, Dr. Walton turned her attention to developing longer term treatment relationships with patients in an office-based setting. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the Austin Clubhouse. In her free time, she enjoys running, hiking, cooking, reading, and spending time with her family and pets.