Care in Vietnamese, directly, with no interpreter in the room and no family member asked to translate. Alice Tran, PMHNP-BC sees Vietnamese-speaking adults across Oregon by secure video.
Book a Telehealth Appointment →Portland has one of the most established Vietnamese communities on the West Coast, and almost no Vietnamese-speaking psychiatric prescribers to serve it. What usually happens instead is an interpreter on a phone line, or an adult child pulled out of work to translate their parent’s symptoms. Neither one lets a person say what they actually mean.
Describing depression, panic, or intrusive thoughts is hard enough in a first language. In a second language, the words that carry the real weight tend to be the first ones lost. Here the entire visit happens in Vietnamese if you prefer: the questions, the explanation of what is going on, and the reasoning behind any medication.
There is also the part that has nothing to do with vocabulary. Shame about mental illness, worry about what relatives would say, the instinct to describe distress as a physical symptom because that feels more acceptable, the weight of what an older generation carried and never discussed. None of that needs to be explained from scratch here.
Not a translated version of an English appointment. The evaluation, the explanation, and the treatment plan all happen in the language you think in.
Your adult children do not need to take time off work, and you do not have to say difficult things through someone you love.
Portland, Beaverton, Gresham, Hillsboro, Salem, Eugene. Secure video means the nearest Vietnamese-speaking prescriber is not a driving distance question.
Family obligation, immigration and refugee history, and generational silence around mental health are treated as part of the picture.
Alice Tran speaks Vietnamese and conducts the visit directly. There is no interpreter and no third party on the line.
Yes. The entire appointment can be conducted in Vietnamese, including the intake questions and the discussion of any medication. Adult children are welcome to join if the patient wants them there, but they are not needed to translate.
Booking and intake forms are in English, and help with them is available by phone at (703) 791-9099. Everything clinical, meaning the visit itself and the explanations, is in Vietnamese.
No. Care is private and HIPAA-protected. Oregon visits are self-pay, so no claim is filed and no diagnosis is sent to a health plan. Nothing goes to family, employers, or anyone else without your written permission.
The initial 60-minute evaluation is $400 and follow-ups are $200 for 30 minutes or $250 for 45. Oregon care is self-pay only, and the price is the same in either language.
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