Trauma changes how the nervous system reads the world, and no amount of willpower resets it alone. Alice Tran, PMHNP-BC provides trauma-informed psychiatric care to Maryland adults by secure telehealth, in English and Tiếng Việt.
Book a Telehealth Appointment →PTSD is not only a combat condition. Car accidents, assaults, medical emergencies, childhood abuse, and sudden losses all leave the same signature: intrusive memories, nightmares, avoidance of reminders, a body stuck on high alert, and a mood that has gone flat or dark. Maryland holds many communities where trauma concentrates, from military families around Fort Meade and Aberdeen to refugees and immigrants who carried war and displacement with them, to healthcare workers who spent the pandemic years absorbing more than anyone acknowledged.
Treatment starts with a careful evaluation, because PTSD is routinely tangled with depression, panic, substance use, and insomnia, and because complex PTSD from prolonged or repeated trauma behaves differently than single-incident PTSD. Getting the full picture right is what makes treatment work.
Medication has a real, evidence-based role: SSRIs and SNRIs are first-line for PTSD, prazosin can quiet trauma nightmares, and treating the accompanying depression or insomnia often unlocks progress everywhere else. When trauma-focused therapy such as EMDR or prolonged exposure is the right next step, Alice coordinates with your therapist or helps you find one, so medication and therapy pull in the same direction. Telehealth is a genuine advantage here: many people with PTSD find it far easier to talk about trauma from their own safe space than in an unfamiliar office.
Accidents, assaults, medical events. When one day divides life into before and after, treatment helps the after get bigger.
Prolonged trauma shapes identity, relationships, and the sense of safety itself. It is treated here with patience, not a checklist.
Targeted options like prazosin plus real insomnia care, because nothing heals on four broken hours of sleep.
War, displacement, and the silence that often follows. Care in English or Vietnamese, from a clinician who understands why some stories were never told.
No. A psychiatric evaluation does not require reliving events. Alice needs to understand the shape of what happened and its effects, and you control the depth. Detailed trauma processing belongs in therapy, at a pace you choose.
Yes, trauma-focused therapy alone helps many people. But when nightmares, hyperarousal, or co-occurring depression make therapy itself impossible to engage with, medication often opens the door. The evaluation lays out honest options either way.
For evaluation and medication management, yes, and many trauma patients strongly prefer it: your own space, your own exits, no waiting rooms. Crisis-level situations need in-person emergency care, and Alice is direct about that line.
Yes. Alice sees veterans and military family members across Maryland by telehealth, and coordinates with VA care when patients want both.
Trauma-informed care by telehealth across Maryland. English & Tiếng Việt.
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