Kimona Premjith is a Clinical Psychologist based in Johannesburg, where she runs a clinical practice.

She completed her Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Arts (Honours) and Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology degrees at the University of Witwatersrand.

After completion of her Masters degree, Kimona went on to complete her internship year at Tara H. Moross Psychiatric Hospital in Hurlingham. During her first six months, she worked in the psychotherapy unit where she diagnosed, treated and facilitated groups among adult patients experiencing varying personality pathology. She also worked in the adolescent unit treating young adolescents with the use of individual psychotherapy and Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) groups.

Subsequently for the next six months, Kimona worked extensively in the biochemical wards. She was a member of the multidisciplinary team, diagnosing and treating acute psychotic males as well as acute psychotic females. The work in these wards required both group and individual psychotherapy interventions. Whilst seeing inpatients at Tara, Kimona also worked in the Outpatient Department. Here she treated a range of pathology from mood disorders to personality disorders. Further, she treated couples and was a co-therapist for family therapy, run through the Tara Family Clinic.

After completion of her internship, Kimona went on to complete her community service at Sizwe Tropical Disease Hospital in Edenvale. Sizwe TD is a specialist hospital diagnosing and treating patients presenting with drug resistant Tuberculosis (TB) and HIV. Kimona saw patients for a longer term psychotherapy intervention, as the duration of stay for most patients were longer than nine months. During her time here, she treated infants, toddlers as well as adults. The scope included a vast amount of bereavement, health psychology and psychoeducation. Kimona experienced the disheartening socioeconomic issues many patients faced within the community as well as the realised stigma around mental health and TB. Kimona often worked with pregnant women as well as first time mothers, helping them bond with their baby in utero and postnatally. She was also able to provide psychoeducation and psychotherapy around HIV and TB as infants were often sick due to vertical transmission from mother during pregnancy This work highlighted Kimona's interest in parent-infant psychotherapy as well as infant development, postpartum depression and attachment between caregiver and infant. 

After qualifying as an independent Clinical Psychologist, Kimona furthered her training in parent-infant psychotherapy work. She completed parent-infant psychotherapy training through Ububele and is currently a member of the South African Association for Infant Mental Health (ZA-AIMH). Kimona is dedicated to the continuation of her training, supervision and research in the field of parent-infant psychotherapy and infant mental health.