Columbia was planned as a place where life would be balanced. The to-do lists had other ideas. Alice Tran, PMHNP-BC offers psychiatric care by secure telehealth for Howard County adults juggling careers, kids, and aging parents.
Book a Telehealth Appointment →Columbia consistently ranks among the best places to live in America, and that reputation creates its own quiet pressure: when everything around you is excellent, struggling feels like a personal failure. Behind the village greens and top-ranked schools is a community full of sandwich-generation adults managing demanding jobs in the Baltimore-Washington corridor, children’s schedules, and parents who are starting to need them.
That load has a clinical cost. Chronic stress that never lets up becomes anxiety; running on empty for years becomes depression; and the scattered, overwhelmed feeling that gets blamed on “mom brain” or busyness is sometimes ADHD that was never caught. An unhurried evaluation figures out which is which, because the treatments differ.
Every appointment for Columbia patients is by secure telehealth, made to fit real schedules: between school pickup and dinner, from an office in Gateway, or after the house finally goes quiet. Maryland visits are self-pay, and new patients are typically seen within one to two weeks.
Caring for kids and parents at once while working full-time is a mental health risk factor, not a character test. Support here is practical and judgment-free.
When the family logistics manager goes down, everything goes down. Treating the exhausted parent is treating the whole household.
Often discovered when a child is diagnosed and a parent recognizes themselves in the paperwork. It happens weekly here.
Howard County excellence culture reaches adults too. Perfectionism and constant worry respond well to treatment.
That is exactly why the practice is telehealth for Maryland: no drive, no waiting room, thirty-minute follow-ups from wherever you are. Patients keep these appointments because they can.
Extremely. ADHD is strongly heritable, and a child’s diagnosis is one of the most common ways adults discover their own. A proper adult evaluation takes two to three visits.
Yes. Many patients keep a local therapist for talk therapy while Alice manages evaluation and medication. With your permission, coordination is standard practice.
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.
Telehealth across Maryland. Appointments that fit family life.
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