Effective, compassionate care to help you find calm, clarity, and balance.
Anxiety is a natural response to stress, but when constant worry or fear interferes with your daily life, it becomes more than just nerves. At DuPage Psychiatric Care PLLC, our experienced mental health professionals provide evidence-based anxiety treatment in Chicago and surrounding areas, helping you regain peace of mind and restore emotional balance.
If you often feel uneasy in situations others find manageable, you may be living with an anxiety disorder. Our dedicated team in Chicago, Skokie, Hinsdale, and Wheaton is here to listen, support, and guide you toward recovery in a safe and judgment-free space.
Anxiety disorders are among the most common mental health conditions, affecting millions of adults every year. They involve intense, excessive, and prolonged fear or worry about everyday situations.
While everyone feels anxious from time to time, persistent anxiety can impact sleep, relationships, work performance, and overall well-being.
Common anxiety symptoms include:
You’re not alone. Effective help is available. Through our personalized anxiety treatment plans, clients learn how to manage symptoms, challenge negative thoughts, and live more confidently each day.
Anxiety manifests differently for each person. Understanding which type you may be experiencing helps us tailor your treatment for lasting relief.
At DuPage Psychiatric Care PLLC, diagnosis begins with a comprehensive evaluation by our licensed therapists, psychiatrists, or nurse practitioners.
We discuss your symptoms, history, lifestyle, and triggers to understand your experience fully.
We also use GeneSight® genetic testing to determine which medications may work best for your genetic profile, allowing for more personalized and effective treatment options.
If you’re uncertain about whether your symptoms indicate anxiety, consider booking a mental health assessment with one of our trusted providers, such as Dr Murali Rao or Dr Anita Rao.
Our treatment approach is holistic – addressing your mind, body, and lifestyle together.
We combine evidence-based therapies, medication management, and compassionate guidance to help you find long-term relief.
Your care plan may include:
Learn more about our TMS therapy for anxiety and depression relief.
Your therapy sessions are designed to help you feel seen, heard, and supported.
Our team meets you where you are – whether in person or through secure telehealth visits – so you can receive consistent care in the way that’s most comfortable for you.
During sessions, you’ll:
Progress takes time, but with continued care, most clients experience significant improvement in their ability to manage symptoms and enjoy daily life.
Our skilled team provides expert care tailored to your needs.
We create individualized plans to support your unique journey.
Your privacy and safety are our top priorities throughout care.
Dr Patel is kind and engaging, thorough and knowledgeable, listens and goes beyond expectations of being helpful."
"I feel safe with him and his team."
"Dr. Patel has been very patient with me and all of my question."
"I love Dr. Patel! He is very knowledgeable, understanding and nonjudgmental. He understands my needs. He is very flexible with appointment times. He is fantastic psychiatrist. I highly recommend him."
Our practice is built on compassion, experience, and evidence.
With locations in Chicago, Skokie, Hinsdale, Chicago, and Wheaton, our team provides accessible, high-quality mental health care for every journey.
Highlights of our anxiety treatment program:
Meet our dedicated providers on the Our Team page, including Natalie Pollard, LPC.
This is your opportunity to meet with a provider to discuss your symptoms, history, and goals in a supportive, judgment-free space.
Our experienced therapists utilize evidence-based approaches to support you on your path to wellness.
While professional care is key, daily practices can complement your treatment and help reduce anxiety symptoms:
Dr Patel is kind and engaging, thorough and knowledgeable, listens and goes beyond expectations of being helpful."
"I feel safe with him and his team."
"Dr. Patel has been very patient with me and all of my question."
"I love Dr. Patel! He is very knowledgeable, understanding and nonjudgmental. He understands my needs. He is very flexible with appointment times. He is fantastic psychiatrist. I highly recommend him."
If anxiety is holding you back, you deserve compassionate, professional care that truly understands what you’re going through.
Our team is here to guide you through every step, from diagnosis to recovery, with empathy and evidence-based support.
Begin your journey toward lasting calm and confidence. Schedule an appointment online or contact our Chicago office today.
If your anxiety interferes with daily activities, sleep, or relationships – or if you experience panic attacks – it’s a strong sign that therapy or treatment can help.
Mild anxiety may ease with lifestyle changes, but persistent or severe anxiety often requires professional treatment to achieve lasting relief.
The duration depends on your symptoms and goals. Some patients notice improvement within a few weeks, while others benefit from longer-term therapy.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is highly effective for most anxiety disorders. Your therapist may also combine other evidence-based methods tailored to your needs.
Yes. We provide secure telehealth appointments so you can meet with your therapist virtually from anywhere in Illinois.
We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all of the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside of it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers), both for Windows and for MAC users.
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs, there may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to