Dieter Dvorak was born in Stuttgart, Germany.
He worked in the public workplace accident rehabilitation service between 1981 and 1994.
In 1994 he began formal studies in Psychology at the Eberhard-Karls University in Tuebingen.
In 1995 he and his family immigrated to Auckland, New Zealand and he subsequently continued his professional training with Massey University to become a Clinical Psychologist. He has been working as a psychologist in Auckland since 2001.
Returning to his roots in rehabilitation, after an initial period of working for local public adult mental health services, he has specialized in interventions for long-term health and injury and chronic pain since 2005.
In 2011 he created the Psychology module of a local public chronic health service and has been developing and implementing it since then.