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 in Houston, TX.

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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 in Dallas. She has combined clinical experience of 20+years since graduating from medical school. She is fluent in several languages, including Punjabi, Hindi, Russian, and English. She loves to read, travel and garden however at this time she is most passionate about learning to chant Vedic texts.

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