Bethesda runs on expertise: NIH scientists, Walter Reed clinicians, attorneys, and consultants who spend their days taking care of everything and everyone else. Alice Tran, PMHNP-BC offers psychiatric care by secure telehealth that respects both your intelligence and your calendar.
Book a Telehealth Appointment →Bethesda is one of the most educated communities in America, anchored by the National Institutes of Health and Walter Reed. It is full of people who can read a journal article about SSRIs but have never had forty-five uninterrupted minutes to talk about their own sleep, their own worry, their own flatness that will not lift. High-achieving communities do not have less anxiety and depression; they are simply better at hiding it.
This practice is built for exactly that patient: evaluations that are thorough rather than rushed, treatment reasoning explained like the informed adult you are, and honest conversations about evidence, side effects, and alternatives. Alice Tran is dual board-certified and trained under a psychiatrist with more than fifty years of experience.
Appointments for Bethesda patients are by secure telehealth, which means no fighting for parking on Wisconsin Avenue and no explaining a midday absence. Maryland visits are self-pay, and new patients are typically seen within one to two weeks.
Impressive on paper, running on empty in private. The gap between how you look and how you feel is treatable.
The brilliant researcher who cannot finish the manuscript. Careful multi-visit evaluation, then treatment that works with a demanding career.
Clinicians and researchers carry distinct pressures, including the fear that seeking care looks like weakness. It is handled here with complete discretion.
Common companions of high achievement, and strong predictors of hidden depression. Both respond to treatment.
Care is private and HIPAA-protected, and telehealth adds another layer: no waiting rooms, no chance encounters. If you have licensure or clearance concerns, raise them at the first visit; Alice is direct about what records exist and who can see them.
Telehealth visits fit into a lunch block or between meetings, and there is no commute on either end. Most follow-ups are 30 minutes.
Yes, frequently. Bright adults who compensated for decades are a large share of this practice. The evaluation takes two to three visits and looks at the whole picture, not just a symptom checklist.
Not at this time. Maryland visits are self-pay: $400 for the initial evaluation and $200 for a 30-minute follow-up. Nothing is billed to insurance and no claim is filed. See Rates for details.
Secure telehealth throughout Maryland. Board-certified PMHNP.
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