Few places in America hold as many languages, histories, and hustles as Silver Spring. Alice Tran, PMHNP-BC, herself a child of immigrants, offers psychiatric care by secure telehealth for the people who keep this community running.
Book a Telehealth Appointment →Silver Spring is one of the most internationally diverse communities in the United States, home to large Ethiopian, Salvadoran, Caribbean, Asian, and African American communities, plus thousands of federal employees at FDA and NOAA. Diversity like that comes with a truth the mental health system rarely honors: distress does not look the same in every culture, and neither does asking for help.
Alice Tran built her practice around that truth. As a first-generation Vietnamese American, she knows what it is to carry a family’s hopes, to translate for your parents, and to grow up believing that struggling quietly is a virtue. Patients from immigrant families consistently say the same thing: it is easier to talk to someone who does not need the context explained.
For Silver Spring patients, every appointment is by secure telehealth, which also solves the practical barriers: no Red Line delays, no parking garages, no waiting rooms. Care is available in English and Tiếng Việt, visits are self-pay, and new patients are typically seen within two weeks.
The acculturation gap, family obligation, and the exhaustion of living between two worlds are treated here as central, not incidental.
FDA scientists, teachers, and healthcare workers, whose jobs demand steadiness they may not feel. Discreet, flexible care that fits shift work.
Still working, still providing, still showing up at church or mosque or temple, and quietly empty. That counts, and it is treatable.
From constant background worry to full panic attacks, with treatment that starts working in weeks, not years.
Yes, and you would be in good company. Many patients here are the first in their family to seek care. Telehealth keeps it private, and Alice is glad to help you think through what, if anything, to share with family.
Not at all. Vietnamese-language care is one distinctive offering, but the practice serves adults of every background, and cultural humility applies to everyone’s story.
You get a secure video link, join from any private spot, and prescriptions go to your local Silver Spring pharmacy the same day. Nothing to install, nothing to commute to.
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 statewide. English & Tiếng Việt welcome.
Book Now →Or call/text: (703) 791-9099