Dr. Louise McCutcheon is a Clinical Psychologist, Principal Psychology Educator at the Parkville Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing Service, Melbourne Australia. She holds an honorary Clinical Associate Professor role with the Centre for Youth Mental Health, The University of Melbourne.

She jointly founded the award-winning, evidence-based Helping Young People Early (HYPE) program, an early intervention program for personality disorder in young people at Orygen, in Melbourne. She coordinated the HYPE clinical program for 12 years and has been an investigator on many of the research projects investigating treatments for young people and support programs for their family members and friends. She established the HYPE Service development program and coordinates the Orygen clinical training program.

She co-developed the practical, psychologically informed approach for working with personality disorder called Relational Clinical Care and has been teaching this approach to mental health clinicians in Australia and internationally since 2003.