She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California, Berkeley, with an undergraduate degree in psychology. She received her master’s and doctorate in psychology from Michigan State University, completed a clinical internship at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Palo Alto, California, and completed post-graduate training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the Baltimore-Washington Center for Psychoanalysis. Since moving to Maryland in 1997, Dr. Donze has worked at Johns Hopkins and at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She has seen patients in her own private psychotherapy practice since 2003.