Mood that tracks your cycle. Anxiety that arrived with motherhood. Rage that showed up in perimenopause. ADHD that everyone missed because you were a "good girl." Women deserve care built for how these conditions actually show up.
Women experience depression and anxiety at roughly twice the rate of men, and hormonal transitions create windows of real vulnerability: puberty, the premenstrual phase, pregnancy, postpartum, and perimenopause. These are not character weaknesses or "just hormones" to be dismissed. They are biological realities that deserve specific clinical attention.
At the same time, conditions like ADHD and autism were defined by studying boys, so generations of women were missed, mislabeled as anxious, dramatic, or disorganized. And the invisible labor many women carry, managing households, careers, children, and aging parents at once, creates a chronic stress load that medicine rarely asks about.
Care for women works best when it considers the whole picture: hormones and life stage, sleep and support, the roles you carry, and the conditions that may have been hiding for decades. That is the lens I bring to every evaluation.
Evaluation starts with actually listening, and with tracking symptoms against your cycle and life stage when relevant. PMDD, postpartum conditions, perimenopausal mood changes, and adult ADHD in women all have specific, effective treatments, and distinguishing them from each other matters enormously.
Treatment may include medication timed and chosen with your hormonal reality in mind, collaboration with your OB or primary care provider, and supportive therapy for the load you carry. Appointments are available in person in Fairfax or via telehealth across Virginia, in English and Tiếng Việt.
If you are in crisis right now, please do not wait for an appointment.
Call or text 988, the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. Free, confidential, available 24/7.
For emergencies, call 911 or go to your nearest emergency room.
Alice Tran Psychiatric Care does not operate 24/7 and does not provide crisis services. Emails, voicemails, text or portal messages are typically responded to within 24 to 72 business hours.
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