Areas of Focus
Varsha Vaidya, MD extensive experience and knowledge can help her treat both psychiatric symptoms (anxieties, fears, mood changes, etc)
and other difficulties that interfere with your enjoyment of life, professional growth, and relationships. She approaches your difficulties
with acceptance, compassion, and respect.
Here are some of the conditions and problems Varsha Vaidya treats
- Anxiety disorders, including generalized anxiety/worry,
obsessions and compulsions, social anxiety, and panic disorder - Depression, grief and loss, including “complicated grief”
- Bipolar and other mood disorders
- Trauma, PTSD, and dissociation as a result of physical and
sexual trauma, childhood neglect or abandonment, intimate
partner violence, war and social violence, and catastrophe - LGBTQ and transgender concerns
- Struggles with self-assertion and interpersonal communication
- Difficulties in interpersonal relationships and emotion
dysregulation - Marital difficulties, divorce, and co-parenting
- Navigating major life changes, including education, career,
marriage, parenting, and aging - Legal evaluations for asylum/ hardship/ N648 waivers
- Challenges in medical training, including medical school, residency, and life as a doctor
- Chronic pain and coping with chronic medical illness
- Psychosomatic illness and psychogenic/non-epileptic seizures
- Substance misuse and abuse
- Eating disorders, including anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating
disorder - Perfectionism, rigidity, self-defeating and compulsive behaviors
- Distractibility and procrastination
- Loneliness, social isolation, and struggles with intimacy
- Creativity and developing a richer, more alive, sense of self
- Spiritual and existential concerns, finding and creating meaning
- Consultation with patients and family doing a full evaluation to
assist understanding and best options for treatment of your
symptoms. - Varsha Vaidya, MD has served as an expert witness in court many times in
the USA as well as in the UK.