After training in Melbourne and the United Kingdom Dr Tovey has spent her working life in Melbourne.
For the past twenty years she has had an inpatient and outpatient psychiatric practice at Ramsay Clinic Albert Road. Dr Tovey also works in telepsychiatry. She enjoys working in various modalities including adult (general) psychiatry and trauma informed psychotherapy.
Dr Tovey has been Program Director of the Ramsay Clinic Albert Road Outreach Service for over twelve years, Deputy Chair of the Clinic's Medical Advisory Committee.
Dr Tovey is a member of the Ramsay Clinic Albert Road Professorial Psychiatry Unit, linked to the University of Melbourne where she holds the title of Honorary Lecturer. She was appointed a Life Fellow of Queen's College, the University of Melbourne, in 2017.
Dr Tovey enjoys working in a collegiate environment, teaching medical students and supporting registrars and other your doctors at the Clinic. She enjoys working collaboratively in all aspects of her work.