Dr. Vandana Sethi Rao is a board-certified psychiatrist specializing in depression, mood disorders, anxiety, ADD/ADHD, autism spectrum disorders, and behavioral issues. She combines medication management with psychotherapy techniques, including cognitive behavioral therapy and psychodynamic therapy, trained at UT Southwestern (UTSW). Dr. Rao also holds a family therapy certification from the Momentous Institute and has extensive experience working with diverse patient populations at major healthcare institutions.

With three years of adult psychiatry residency and a two-year child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship, Dr. Rao's expertise spans both fields. She has also served as a general practitioner abroad and completed a two-year externship in internal medicine. Her work has been featured on radio 104.6 FM, Doctalklive.com, and in University Park Life magazine.

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Dr. Rao was born into an army family in Delhi, India, and pursued her medical education at Kharkov Medical University in Ukraine, graduating in 1997. After practicing medicine in Delhi for a number of years she completed a Master's in Public Health at UNC and worked as an epidemiologist for the city of Houston. She then specialized in psychiatry through a 5 year residency and fellowship program in both adult and child & adolescent psychiatry at UT Southwestern here in Dallas. She has combined clinical experience of 20+years since graduating from medical school. She is fluent in several languages, including Sanskrit, Punjabi, Hindi, Russian, and English.

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