Evaluations, medication management, and supportive therapy for adults 18 to 65, delivered by video so nothing has to be scheduled around Langston Boulevard.
Book an Appointment →Cherrydale is one of the older pieces of Arlington and it still shows. The former volunteer fire house anchors a short commercial strip, bungalows from the 1920s sit on lots that were never meant to hold what is being built on them now, and Langston Boulevard runs straight through the middle carrying traffic that has nothing to do with the neighborhood. Families move here for the schools and the trees and then spend a decade watching half the block get replaced house by house.
If you have been looking for Cherrydale psychiatric care, you have probably found that the search returns everything except Cherrydale. Anh "Alice" Tran, PMHNP-BC, FNP-BC, is a dual board-certified psychiatric mental health and family nurse practitioner licensed in Virginia, treating adults 18 to 65. Cherrydale patients are seen almost entirely by video. The physical office is at 3060 Williams Drive, Suite 300, Fairfax, VA 22031, in Merrifield, with free on-site parking, and it is an option rather than an obligation.
Psychiatric evaluation. The first appointment runs a full 60 minutes because a working diagnosis is built out of sequence and context, not out of a symptom checklist. What started first, what was happening in your life at the time, what you tried, what happened when you stopped. A number of Cherrydale patients arrive holding a diagnosis assigned quickly during a difficult year in their twenties, and one honest job of the evaluation is to check whether that label still describes anything true.
Medication management. If medication makes sense, you hear the reasoning first: what it is meant to do, roughly how long that takes, what to watch for in the first fortnight, and what the plan is if it turns out to be the wrong fit. Dose changes follow your actual response rather than a calendar. Prescriptions are sent electronically to whichever pharmacy you already use. Controlled medications, including stimulants for adult ADHD, follow Virginia requirements, which can mean an in-person appointment in Fairfax. The medication management page lays that out step by step.
Supportive therapy. Follow-ups run 30 or 45 minutes, and the longer one exists so the visit can be more than a refill. There is room for the argument with a contractor that has been running for four months, the decision about whether your mother should still be driving, the resentment about a block that no longer feels like yours. When what you actually need is structured longer-term therapy, trauma processing or a full course of cognitive behavioral therapy, Alice says so directly and helps you find someone. See the services page for the full picture.
Almost nobody books because of one dramatic week. More often something has been accumulating for a year or two and a small thing finally makes it undeniable.
One lot finishes and the next one starts. Compressors at seven in the morning, dust, a street you cannot park on. Noise you have no control over is a reliable way to shorten sleep and shorten a temper, and people usually blame the temper on themselves.
No Metro station in the neighborhood, so the day begins and ends in a car on Langston. Two unpredictable hours of the day get spent alone in traffic, which is where a lot of people first notice how much they are dreading arriving anywhere.
Daycare pickup sets a hard deadline that the job does not respect. Parents describe running the whole week at capacity, then discovering they have nothing left for anything optional, including the parts of life they actually chose.
Long-tenured owners see the houses they knew replaced by houses they do not. It reads as complaining about change, and underneath it is often unnamed grief about a place, sometimes stacked on other losses that were never worked through.
Adults who compensated for years with intelligence, adrenaline, and long hours, until a promotion added coordination work that neither one covers. Missed details get called carelessness when they are frequently untreated attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Older residents intent on remaining in a house with a staircase built for someone younger. Conversations about driving, stairs, and help arriving from adult children carry anxiety and grief that rarely get called anything but practical.
Intake forms arrive by email beforehand so the appointment itself is conversation rather than data entry. Fill in what you can and skip the rest. Nothing on the form is scored and nobody is evaluating your thoroughness. Insurance is verified in advance, which means the cost is a known number going in rather than a surprise on a statement in three weeks.
You join by clicking a link a few minutes early and checking that camera and microphone work. Alice usually opens by asking why now, because the moment a person finally schedules something is often more revealing than the symptom list. From there: what you are experiencing, when it began, your medical and family history, sleep, alcohol and caffeine, and every substance you currently take including over-the-counter and herbal products. Then she tells you what she is thinking and why, in ordinary language, and the plan gets built with you rather than handed to you. Most people schedule a first follow-up two to four weeks out. There is a general walkthrough on the first appointment checklist, and preparation notes on how to prepare for a psychiatric evaluation.
This is adult psychiatry for ages 18 to 65, and the attention stays on how a condition behaves inside your actual week rather than how it reads in a manual.
Attention and focus. ADHD in adults, including people who were diagnosed as children and stopped treatment somewhere around college, and people assessed for the first time in their late thirties after sitting through an evaluation for their own child. The adult ADHD self-check costs nothing, and ADHD treatment in Virginia covers what comes after a diagnosis.
Anxiety, panic, and OCD. Anxiety that lives in the body long before it reaches the thoughts, panic attacks convincing enough to send someone to an emergency room, and obsessive compulsive patterns that have quietly reorganized a household around checking. The GAD-7 screener and the anxiety treatment page are both readable first.
Mood. Depression, including the kind that keeps making school pickup and answering every email, along with bipolar disorder and grief that has lasted longer than the people around you expected. Start with the PHQ-9 or with depression treatment in Virginia.
Trauma, sleep, and reproductive mental health. PTSD and trauma responses, including events that predate your arrival in Arlington by decades, plus insomnia, burnout that has crossed from tired into clinical, and postpartum and perinatal mood changes.
Visits are by video, never by telephone. That is a clinical decision rather than a technical limitation, since a meaningful share of what a psychiatric provider needs to observe is visible rather than audible. You join at doxy.me/alicetran, which opens in a browser with nothing to install and no account to create. If the connection drops, you rejoin the same link, and the office calls to help you get back in so the appointment finishes on video.
Telehealth covers the whole state, and you need to be physically inside Virginia during the appointment. In-person visits happen in Fairfax at 3060 Williams Drive, Suite 300, with free on-site parking, roughly 20 to 30 minutes from Cherrydale depending on when you leave. More on how regional virtual care works is on the Northern Virginia telehealth page.
You see Alice every time. Not a rotating panel, not whoever the scheduling system assigns this quarter. Psychiatric care compounds: knowing how you responded to a dose change in March is what makes the October decision straightforward instead of guesswork. That continuity is the specific thing a large system struggles to promise.
The dual certification does more work than it sounds like. Alice is board certified in psychiatric mental health and in family practice, and she trained under psychiatrist Dr. Errol Segall, MD, who brings more than 50 years of clinical experience. The family practice background means thyroid function, anemia, sleep apnea, perimenopause, and drug interactions are considered rather than skipped, which matters most when the presenting complaint is fatigue, fog, or a mood shift with no obvious trigger.
Pricing is published and flat: $400 for the 60 minute initial visit, $200 for a 30 minute follow-up, $250 for a 45 minute follow-up, with no membership and no add-on fees. Aetna, Anthem, Cigna, Medicare, and Medicaid are accepted, and coverage is verified before your first appointment. Details sit on the rates page, and there is more about Alice if you want to know who you would be talking to. Care is available fully in English or fully in Tiếng Việt with no interpreter.
Cherrydale sits on the road that connects two very different halves of north Arlington, and patients arrive from both directions. Alice also sees adults in Ballston, Rosslyn, Lyon Village, Clarendon, Virginia Square, Courthouse, and across Arlington generally, along with Falls Church and Fairfax. Telehealth reaches anywhere in Virginia. For depth on one subject rather than one place, see ADHD treatment in Arlington and anxiety treatment in Arlington.
No. There is no office in Cherrydale and none anywhere in Arlington. The practice address is 3060 Williams Drive, Suite 300, Fairfax, VA 22031, in the Merrifield area, with free on-site parking. Cherrydale is a community Alice serves, and for nearly everyone here the appointment happens by video.
It can be a genuine contributor. Sustained noise you cannot control shortens sleep, keeps the nervous system braced, and wears down patience in a way people usually blame on themselves. That does not automatically make it a psychiatric diagnosis, but it belongs in the history, because a plan built without it will keep missing.
A parked car is the most common answer, followed by a bedroom with the door shut during a nap, and a back porch. You need to be physically in Virginia and reasonably private, and that is the whole requirement. Nobody is judging the setting. If a child appears mid-sentence, that is ordinary here.
Yes. Losing the familiar shape of a place is a real loss even though nothing was taken from you personally. People describe it as feeling foolish for minding, which usually means they have not said it out loud. It is worth saying out loud, and sometimes it turns out to be sitting on top of other losses that were never worked through.
Yes, and that is a common arrangement. Alice handles evaluation and medication while your therapist continues the weekly work. With your written permission she will coordinate directly, which mostly means the two clinicians are not guessing about what the other one changed.
Alice is board certified in psychiatric mental health and in family practice. In practice that means thyroid, iron, sleep apnea, perimenopause, and interactions with your other medications get considered rather than assumed away. When the complaint is fatigue or brain fog, ruling those things in or out early saves months.
It mostly removes a constraint. Because visits are by video, you are not budgeting drive time on either end, which is the part that usually kills a weekday appointment for a driver. Regular hours are Monday through Thursday, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM Eastern, and evening or weekend times may be available on request.
Yes, and a fair number of people do exactly that. The 60 minute evaluation happens at the Fairfax office, roughly 20 to 30 minutes from Cherrydale depending on traffic, and follow-ups move to video once you have met in the room. You can also switch back at any point.
The initial evaluation is 60 minutes at $400. Follow-ups are either 30 minutes at $200 or 45 minutes at $250. There is no membership fee and nothing is added on afterward. Aetna, Anthem, Cigna, Medicare, and Medicaid are also accepted, and coverage is verified before the first visit.
No. Prescriptions are sent electronically to whatever pharmacy you use, including the ones along Langston Boulevard or in Ballston. Controlled medications, including stimulants for adult ADHD, follow Virginia requirements, which can mean an in-person appointment in Fairfax before or during treatment.
Standard hours end at 4:00 PM Eastern, Monday through Thursday, but evening and weekend appointments may be available on request. Ask when you book rather than assuming the answer, and call or text (703) 791-9099 if it would help to sort out scheduling before committing to anything.
Yes. Care is provided fully in English or fully in Tiếng Việt, with no interpreter in the room and no family member translating. You can also move between languages mid-conversation if that is how you actually think.
Broader questions are answered on the FAQ page.
Scheduling online takes a couple of minutes. If you would rather ask a question before committing to anything, call or text (703) 791-9099 or email info@alicetrannp.com. New patients are usually seen within one to two weeks, no referral is needed, and coverage is verified before the first appointment. This is not a crisis service. If you are in danger, call or text 988.
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Many people searching for a psychiatrist in Cherrydale 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.