Evaluations, medication management, and supportive therapy with Alice Tran, PMHNP-BC. Appointments by secure video across Virginia, or in person at the Fairfax office with free parking.
Book an Appointment →This is one of the most densely populated corners of Fairfax County. The Skyline towers rise over Leesburg Pike, the garden apartments of Culmore hold families who have been here for decades and families who arrived last spring, and the buses run early because a lot of people here start work before the region wakes up. Dozens of languages are spoken within a mile of the intersection.
What is harder to find nearby is a mental health provider taking new adult patients without a months-long wait. Alice Tran, PMHNP-BC is a dual board-certified psychiatric mental health and family nurse practitioner licensed in Virginia. She treats adults 18 to 65, offers appointments in English or Tiếng Việt with no interpreter, and can typically see new patients within one to two weeks. No referral is needed to make an appointment.
Start with the commute. A large share of residents here work in Arlington, Crystal City, the Pentagon area, or downtown DC, and they get there on buses along Columbia Pike and Leesburg Pike rather than in a car with a reserved spot. An hour each way is normal. That is two hours a day that cannot be spent sleeping, cooking, or sitting with your kids, and the loss adds up in a way that eventually shows in mood.
Then the work itself. Hotels, restaurants, hospitals, construction, childcare, warehouses, and cleaning contracts do not run on a nine-to-five clock. Overnight shifts and rotating schedules disrupt sleep at the biological level, and disrupted sleep is one of the most reliable ways to destabilize mood, attention, and appetite. People describe irritability they do not recognize in themselves and a fog that coffee stopped touching a long time ago.
Cost of living presses on everything. Rent in an apartment shared with extended family, a car payment, tuition for someone in the family, and money sent overseas every month create a math problem that never fully resolves. Underneath it sits the quiet weight many immigrant households carry: separation from parents or children abroad, uncertainty about status, and the sense that complaining would be ungrateful.
None of this is weakness, and none of it is untreatable. Anxiety, depression, insomnia, and trauma responses are medical conditions with real treatments, and they do not require a dramatic breaking point before they are worth addressing.
Paperwork is done online before the appointment, so the hour itself is spent talking. In person you park free at 3060 Williams Drive, Suite 300 in Fairfax. By video you open doxy.me/alicetran on any phone or laptop, with nothing to install.
Alice starts with what is bothering you now and works backward. Sleep, appetite, energy, worry, mood, focus, physical symptoms, past treatment, medical history, family history, alcohol and caffeine. She asks direct questions in plain language and gives you room to answer. You will not be rushed toward a prescription, and you will not be lectured. Near the end you will hear what she thinks is going on and why, what the options are, what each one is realistically expected to do, and what side effects would be worth calling about. Then you decide together. You leave with a written plan, a follow-up appointment, and a way to reach the practice in between.
Depression here often looks like exhaustion and irritability rather than sadness. People keep going to work, keep cooking dinner, and keep answering family obligations while feeling almost nothing. Anxiety frequently attaches itself to concrete worries, money, health, paperwork, a relative far away, and then refuses to switch off even when the day is over.
Insomnia gets a full workup rather than a quick sleeping pill, because shift work, pain, caffeine, and untreated depression each call for a different response. Trauma and PTSD are common in people who came from conflict or lost someone during migration, and the symptoms often surface years later. Adult ADHD is frequently missed in people who never had the chance to be evaluated as children. Panic disorder, OCD, bipolar disorder, burnout, perinatal and postpartum mood changes, and grief are all treated here.
If you want to read further, see the pages on depression, anxiety, and adult ADHD. Free private screeners are also available: the PHQ-9, the GAD-7, and an adult ADHD screener. None of them diagnose anything, but they give you words for the first appointment.
There are three services here, and they are not sold as packages or add-ons.
The 60-minute first visit. A complete history and an honest explanation of what is likely happening, in language that makes sense without a medical background.
Thoughtful prescribing and steady follow-up. Cost matters, so generic options and pharmacy availability are part of the conversation from the beginning.
Focused talk built into the visit: sleep routines around shift work, setting limits with family, and managing the worry that repeats at 3:00 AM.
Full appointments in Vietnamese with the provider herself, no interpreter service. Learn more →
Adult ADHD evaluation deserves a note, because many people in this area finished school in another country or under circumstances that made a childhood diagnosis unlikely. The evaluation here is a structured clinical interview about attention, organization, restlessness, and impulsivity across your whole life, supported by rating scales, rather than a quick questionnaire. When medication is appropriate it is prescribed and monitored under current Virginia rules. The Virginia ADHD treatment guide covers what to expect, and the services page lists everything offered.
Two things come up repeatedly. The first is that you see the same provider every time. In a small practice there is no rotating roster, so your story is known and you are not starting over each visit.
The second is that the money is not a mystery. Self-pay is $400 for the 60-minute evaluation, $200 for a 30-minute follow-up, and $250 for a 45-minute follow-up, with no memberships and no hidden fees. If you use insurance, most major plans are accepted, including Aetna, Anthem, Cigna, Medicare, and Medicaid, and your benefits are verified before you ever sit down.
Alice's dual certification in psychiatric mental health and family practice means the physical side is not ignored: thyroid problems, anemia, sleep apnea, and medication interactions can all look exactly like depression or anxiety, and they are checked rather than assumed away. She trained under psychiatrist Dr. Errol Segall, MD, who has practiced for more than fifty years. And care is genuinely available in Tiếng Việt, delivered by the clinician in the room rather than routed through a phone interpreter. You can read more on the about page or check the rates page.
For most people in this neighborhood, telehealth is the practical option. There is no bus transfer, no parking, no hour of unpaid time lost to travel. Visits happen at doxy.me/alicetran and work on a phone, and they are available anywhere in Virginia.
When you would rather sit in a room with someone, the office at 3060 Williams Drive in Fairfax is about twenty minutes out Route 50 or Arlington Boulevard depending on traffic, and parking there is free and on site. Plenty of patients do the evaluation in person and everything after that by video. Either way you are seeing the same provider.
Patients come from Seven Corners, Falls Church, Annandale, Merrifield, Fairfax, Lincolnia, Glen Forest, and across the county line from Arlington and Alexandria. Everywhere else in Virginia is covered by telehealth.
Less than most people expect. The evaluation takes one hour. After that, follow-ups are 30 or 45 minutes, spaced every few weeks at first and often every one to three months once things are steady. Over a year, that is a handful of hours total.
Yes. Telehealth visits are available anywhere in Virginia through doxy.me/alicetran, so a high-rise apartment, a break room, or a quiet corner all work. All you need is a phone or computer with a camera and a few minutes of privacy.
No. There is no membership, no concierge fee, and no monthly charge. You pay per visit or through your insurance. Self-pay is $400 for the 60-minute initial evaluation, $200 for a 30-minute follow-up, and $250 for a 45-minute follow-up.
Let the office know as early as you can by calling or texting (703) 791-9099, and the visit can usually be moved. The current cancellation policy is posted on the rates page. Shifts change and emergencies happen, and the goal is to keep you in care, not to penalize you.
No. Your treatment is confidential and protected by federal privacy law. Nothing is shared with an employer without your written authorization. If you ever need documentation for leave or an accommodation, that is provided only at your request and only with your consent.
Yes, as often as you need. Some patients come in for the evaluation and then meet by video for every follow-up. Others do the opposite. You can change format visit by visit depending on your schedule, your transportation, and how you are feeling that week.
Yes. Sleep that is broken by rotating or overnight shifts is treated as its own problem, not brushed aside. That means looking at your actual schedule, light exposure, caffeine, and wind-down routine first, and considering medication only when it fits the pattern of what is happening.
Yes. Worry about status, money sent home, and relatives you cannot reach is a real and common source of anxiety, depression, and sleeplessness. Those pressures are taken seriously as clinical concerns. No legal advice is given here, but the toll they take is treated.
After you book, the practice verifies your benefits with your plan and tells you what your visits are expected to cost before you come in. Most major plans are accepted, including Aetna, Anthem, Cigna, Medicare, and Medicaid. Billing questions can go to support@alicetrannp.com.
This practice is not an emergency service. If you are thinking about harming yourself or someone else, call or text 988 for the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, call 911, or go to the nearest emergency department. Those services are free, available at any hour, and offered in many languages.
Other questions are answered on the FAQ page, or send a note through the contact page.
You do not need a referral, a diagnosis, or the right words. You need one hour and a willingness to describe how the last few months have actually felt. Book online, or call or text and talk to a person. Most major insurance accepted, self-pay clearly priced, and appointments usually available within one to two weeks.
Book Now →Or call/text: (703) 791-9099 · Not a crisis service. In an emergency, call or text 988.
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