Trained at the University of the Witwatersrand, Harvard Medical School and Boston College, Dorianne is a Clinical and Organisational psychologist with extensive experience in hospital, private and corporate practice.

Appointed as the youngest senior psychologist and Head of the Department of Psychology at Tara – the H. Moross Centre, Johannesburg’s largest psychiatric teaching hospital, she trained psychologists and doctors and practised for a number of years and also held a lecturing post at the University of the Witwatersrand Medical School.