Dr. James Rao has been working in the field of mental health since 1998. He provides counseling to adults through individual, couples and family psychotherapy, and is able to draw on extensive experience in a variety of settings and with many different populations. He spent 8 years counseling chronically ill patients (and their families) as they coped with chronic kidney and liver disease at a hospital organ transplant center. In this capacity he was significantly involved in program development. He has provided a good deal of supervision to those seeking to enter the mental health field. Dr. Rao’s experience has included providing therapy to graduate and undergraduate students from a number of different Universities. In an outpatient mental health setting he has provided crisis intervention to in short, moderate and long- term frameworks. He has experience in helping people with depression, anxiety, phobias, social discomfort, low self-esteem, OCD, ADHD, trauma, grief, anger control, difficulty adjusting to life circumstances, coping with chronic illness, complicated family dynamics, insomnia/disrupted sleep and substance use. Dr. Rao has run anger management groups in the past and is also very familiar with the dynamics involved in substance abuse and the treatment of addictive disorders.

I do not accept insurance
Fee for 45 minute session: $150