Meet the team – Bloemfontein branch

Bloemfontein Branch

Juanè Raats

Practice Owner

Juanè Raats grew up in a small town in the Boland named Porterville and matriculated at Porterville High School in 1999. In 2002 Juanè worked as an Occupational Therapy student in Belgium, Gent.

Lieben Piek

Practice Manager

Lieben was born in 1975 in Welkom. Matriculated in 1993 at Hoërskool Riebeeckstad. Studied Beauty Therapy (Somatology) from 1994 – 1995.

Hein Koegelenberg

Quality Control Manager

Hein was born in Clanwilliam, Western Cape. He attended Primary School in Swakopmund, Namibia, and matriculated from Prieska High School in 1987.

Talita van den Heever

Practice Administrator

Talita was born and raised in the Free State. She worked in the financial industry for almost 15 years and made a career change in 2018 when her new career path started at Juanè Raats Occupational Therapy.

Bianca Willemse​

Receptionist


Bianca was born in 1993 in Vanderbijlpark and raised in Bloemfontein. She attended President Steyn and graduated in 2012. After graduating she began working at DHL Couriers, arranging collections. From there she worked at Ashlee Panelshop as a receptionist, and in February 2019 she started working at Juanè Raats Occupational Therapy as receptionist.

Truzaan Blome

Senior Occupational Therapist

Truzaan grew up in Bloemfontein and matriculated in 2011 from Oranje Hoër Meisieskool. She graduated with a Bachelor of Occupational Therapy in 2017 at the University of the Free State. In 2018 she completed her community service year at Klerksdorp/Tshepong Hospital Complex.

Ru-Ann van Bosch

Senior Occupational Therapist

Ru-Ann was born and raised in Kimberley and matriculated from Kimberley Girls’ High school in 2013. She enrolled to the University of the Free State and did a year of BSc. in Genetics. She switched over to Occupational Therapy and graduated from The University of the Free State in 2018.

Tessa Kellerman

Junior Therapist

Tessa was born in Bloemfontein and is proud of her roots in the Free State. She attended school at Jim Fouche High School and grew up knowing that she wanted to
serve people for a living. 
Tessa graduated with a Bachelor of Occupational Therapy in 2020 at the University of the Free State.

Lize Mey

Senior Occupational Therapist

Lize grew up in a small town in the Free State named Bothaville and matriculated at Bothaville
Secondary School in 2016. She graduated with a Bachelor of Occupational Therapy in 2020 at the University of the Free State.
In 2021 she completed her community service year in Potchefstroom at Witrand Specialised
Hospital.