Chantilly runs on demanding work: government contracting, tech, small business, and long hours on Route 28 and 66. Alice Tran, PMHNP-BC offers psychiatric care in English and Tiếng Việt, in person in Fairfax or by secure video.
Book an Appointment →Chantilly sits at the center of Northern Virginia's contracting and technology corridor: cleared professionals who cannot always talk about their work, small business owners who never truly clock out, and immigrant families, including a growing Vietnamese and Korean community, building ambitious lives near Dulles. High-pressure careers and quiet perfectionism are the norm here, and so are the anxiety, insomnia, and burnout that come with them.
Alice Tran, PMHNP-BC grew up between two worlds, Vietnamese at home and American everywhere else. She provides psychiatric evaluations, medication management, and supportive therapy fully in Vietnamese or English, with no interpreter needed. When it helps, parents and family members can join the conversation, so care feels clearer and more comfortable for everyone involved. Khám và tư vấn hoàn toàn bằng tiếng Việt.
The Fairfax office at 3060 Williams Drive is about a fifteen-minute drive from Chantilly, with free on-site parking, and every service is also available by secure video anywhere in Virginia. Most major insurances are accepted, including Medicare and Medicaid, and new patients are typically seen within one to two weeks.
Complete psychiatric care in Tiếng Việt, no interpreter needed, so nothing is lost between languages. Learn more →
Whether it arrived suddenly or has been the background noise of your life for years, anxiety and depression respond well to careful evaluation and the right treatment plan.
Immigrant family dynamics, achievement pressure, and duty to parents are not side topics here. They are often the heart of the story, and they are understood.
If you have wondered for years whether it is ADHD, a comprehensive two-visit evaluation can finally give you a real answer.
The corridor around Chantilly runs on infrastructure that is never allowed to stop. Data centers, network operations, systems that carry a penalty for downtime, and the people who keep them up. A large share of the work here comes with a rotation, a pager, or an expectation of reachability that does not end at six.
Being on call is not the same as working long hours, and it is worth separating the two. Long hours are tiring. Being on call is a state of partial alertness that continues through the evening, through dinner, and through the night, whether or not anything actually happens. Sleep taken while braced for an alert is not restorative sleep, even when nothing pages.
Over months this produces a recognizable picture: exhaustion that rest does not fix, a shortening fuse, difficulty concentrating on anything that is not urgent, and a loss of interest in things that used to be enjoyable. It gets labeled burnout, and sometimes that is right. Sometimes it is depression, and sometimes it is a sleep problem that has been driving both.
Telling those apart changes what actually helps, which is a large part of what an evaluation is for.
Genuinely hard to distinguish from the inside, and the distinction changes the treatment. Compare them →
Broken or hypervigilant sleep does not restore the way uninterrupted sleep does. Learn more →
Chronic sleep disruption imitates ADHD closely. Worth sorting out properly. Free screener →
Video visits from home or the office. No drive, and no half day lost.
Completely. Every part of the appointment can happen in Vietnamese, and family members may join when that helps.
Yes, for adults up to age 65. Many families book visits for parents who feel more comfortable in Vietnamese, and Alice makes those first conversations gentle.
Aetna, Anthem, Cigna, Medicare, Medicaid, and several others. The Rates page lists the full current panel and self-pay options.
The Fairfax office at 3060 Williams Drive, Suite 300 is about a fifteen-minute drive from Chantilly, with free parking. Telehealth visits are also available anywhere in Virginia.
Yes, and the fact that nothing happens is part of why. On call requires sustained partial alertness through the evening and overnight, so sleep taken in that state is less restorative even when no alert comes. The cost accumulates quietly over months.
Burnout tends to ease with genuine distance from the source, so a real vacation improves it. Depression tends to follow you into the vacation. If time away has stopped helping, that is worth an evaluation.
In person in Fairfax or by video. English & Tiếng Việt. Board-certified PMHNP.
Book Now →Or call/text: (703) 791-9099
Many people searching for a psychiatrist in Chantilly end up here, so it is worth being clear about who you would be seeing. Alice Tran is a board certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP-BC), not a psychiatrist. For outpatient care in Virginia that distinction matters less than most people expect: she evaluates and diagnoses mental health conditions, prescribes and manages psychiatric medication including ADHD medication, and provides supportive therapy.
The practical differences tend to favor the patient. Psychiatrist offices in this area commonly quote waits of one to three months and many do not take insurance. This practice usually sees new patients within one to two weeks, accepts most major plans including Medicare and Medicaid, and gives every new patient a full 60 minute first appointment. Alice also trained under psychiatrist Dr. Errol Segall, MD, who brings over 50 years of clinical experience.
Want the full comparison? Read what a PMHNP is or how a PMHNP and a psychiatrist differ in Virginia.