Video psychiatric care for adults 18 to 65 along the Pike, in English or Tiếng Việt, with no interpreter and no cross-county commute.
Book an Appointment →Columbia Pike is one of the most densely lived-in corridors in Arlington and one of the most linguistically mixed places in Virginia. Garden apartments built for a different era now hold multigenerational households, restaurant and hospitality staff, drivers, home health aides, federal and contract employees, and families who have been on the same block for twenty years. The corridor runs on buses rather than a rail line, which means an appointment across the county is not a small errand. It is one hour there, one hour back, and a shift you cannot get covered.
Anh "Alice" Tran, PMHNP-BC, FNP-BC, is a dual board-certified psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner and family nurse practitioner, licensed in Virginia, treating adults 18 to 65. For Columbia Pike, care is almost entirely by secure video, which is the honest answer rather than a sales pitch: the office sits at 3060 Williams Drive, Suite 300, Fairfax, VA 22031, a genuine drive from the Pike. Video keeps the appointment and drops the commute.
The reasons people call from this corridor are often practical before they are clinical. Something has been carried for a long time and the structure holding it up has started to give.
Grandparents, parents, and children sharing square footage that was designed for fewer people. Care and obligation flow in every direction, and the person in the middle usually has no hour of the day that belongs to them.
Kitchen, cleaning, retail, warehouse, and care work built on early starts, split shifts, and weekends. Bodies adapt to that for a while. Mood and attention adapt less well, and the gap tends to widen quietly.
The Pike has been a first address in this country for people from Central America, Ethiopia, Bolivia, Vietnam, and many other places. Starting over as an adult means losing the standing you had, and that loss is rarely named as grief even when that is what it is.
Older buildings come down, rents go up, and neighbors leave without a forwarding address. Living with the sense that your housing may not exist in three years is a specific kind of stress and it does not respond to being ignored.
Some people arrived here after things that would meet any definition of trauma. Symptoms can stay quiet for years and then surface once life is finally stable enough to feel them, which surprises people badly.
An aging parent, a child with needs, a spouse working opposite hours. Caregiver exhaustion is real and treatable, and it is a reason to be seen rather than a reason to feel indulgent about asking.
This is adult psychiatry, and the focus stays on how a condition behaves inside your particular week rather than only how it appears on a checklist.
Anxiety, panic, and OCD. Anxiety that keeps the body on alert, panic attacks that send people to an emergency room certain it is the heart, and obsessive compulsive patterns. The GAD-7 screener and the anxiety treatment page are free to read.
Depression and bipolar disorder. Depression that shows up as irritability or exhaustion rather than sadness, which is how it often presents in adults who cannot afford to stop. Bipolar disorder and grief are treated as well. See the PHQ-9 and depression treatment.
Attention. ADHD in adults, often noticed for the first time after a child is evaluated at an Arlington school and a parent recognizes the description. The adult ADHD self-check is a starting point and ADHD treatment explains what follows.
Trauma, sleep, and reproductive mental health. PTSD and trauma responses, insomnia, burnout, and postpartum and perinatal mood changes, which come up often in a corridor with this many young families.
Psychiatric evaluation. The first appointment runs 60 minutes. That time is used to build an accurate picture: when symptoms began, what was happening then, what has already been tried, what your family history looks like, how you sleep, what you use to get through the day, and what an ordinary Wednesday feels like from the inside. Nothing about the hour is a test and there is no right way to answer.
Medication management. If medication is a reasonable option, you get the reasoning first: what it should do, how long that usually takes, what to watch for early, and what happens if it does not suit you. Dosing follows your response. Prescriptions are sent to whichever pharmacy is closest to home or to work. The medication management page goes into detail. Controlled medications, including stimulants for ADHD, follow Virginia requirements, which can mean coming to the Fairfax office in person.
Supportive therapy. Every follow-up leaves room to talk, not just to count symptoms and refill something. For a lot of patients here that means working through obligations to family, money that does not stretch, or a decision that has been sitting unmade for months. Follow-ups are 30 or 45 minutes. When what you need is structured longer-term therapy, Alice says so directly and helps you find it. More detail on the services page.
Paperwork is sent in advance so the hour is spent talking rather than writing. Fill in what you can. Insurance is verified before the appointment so the cost is not a surprise afterward.
Open the link a few minutes early and check that your camera and microphone work. Alice usually begins by asking what made this week the week you called, because the timing is often the most useful thing in the room. From there the conversation covers symptoms, history, medical background, and everything you currently take, including anything from another provider and anything herbal or over the counter. Then she tells you what she thinks and why, in plain terms, and the plan is built with you rather than handed over. Most people schedule a first follow-up two to four weeks out.
Visits are by video, never by telephone. That is a deliberate choice, because a great deal of what a psychiatric provider needs to observe is visible rather than audible. You join at doxy.me/alicetran, which runs in a browser with no download and no account to create. If the connection drops, rejoin the same link and the visit continues; if you cannot get back in, the office calls to help you reconnect so the appointment finishes on video.
Telehealth covers all of Virginia, and you need to be physically in the state during the visit. In-person appointments are available at 3060 Williams Drive, Suite 300 in Fairfax, in the Merrifield area, with free on-site parking. From Columbia Pike that is a real drive, so most patients use it selectively rather than routinely. More on regional virtual care is on the Northern Virginia telehealth page.
The same provider every visit. Not a queue, not a new intake each time you return. Continuity is the whole point in psychiatry, because what happened last spring is what tells you what to do this fall.
Alice trained under psychiatrist Dr. Errol Segall, MD, who has over 50 years of clinical experience, and she is dual board-certified in psychiatric mental health and family practice. That second certification means the medical side gets checked. Thyroid problems, anemia, sleep apnea, and drug interactions all produce symptoms that look psychiatric, and for people who have not had consistent primary care, those possibilities deserve a look rather than an assumption.
Care can be delivered fully in English or fully in Tiếng Việt, with no interpreter and no relative doing the translating. Columbia Pike and nearby Falls Church hold one of the largest Vietnamese communities on the East Coast, anchored around Eden Center, and being able to describe what is wrong in your first language changes the accuracy of the conversation. See psychiatric care in Vietnamese.
Prices are published. Self-pay is $400 for the initial 60 minute visit, $200 for a 30 minute follow-up, and $250 for a 45 minute follow-up. No memberships, no hidden fees. Aetna, Anthem, Cigna, Medicare, and Medicaid are accepted. The rates page has the current list, and about Alice has her background.
Columbia Pike sits between several communities that share a lot of the same daily reality. Alice also works with adults in Arlington more broadly, Pentagon City, Crystal City, Falls Church, East Falls Church, Fairfax, and Merrifield. Telehealth reaches every part of Virginia.
No, because almost all Columbia Pike care happens by video. You join at doxy.me/alicetran from home, and the appointment costs you 30 to 60 minutes instead of a bus transfer in each direction. In-person visits at the Fairfax office are there if you want them, but nobody is required to travel.
Yes, if you want that and you tell Alice at the start. Plenty of patients bring an adult family member for part of a visit and then ask them to step away for the rest. It is your appointment, so you decide who is in the room and for how long.
Yes. The entire visit can be conducted in Tiếng Việt with no interpreter and no third party listening, and you can move between Vietnamese and English whenever it is easier. Nothing has to be translated by a family member.
Medicaid is accepted, along with Aetna, Anthem, Cigna, and Medicare. Coverage is checked before your first appointment so you are told what you owe in advance. If you are uninsured, self-pay is $400 for the 60 minute first visit and $200 or $250 for follow-ups, with no membership fee attached.
No. Your record is protected health information. It is not shared with relatives, landlords, or employers without written authorization from you. If you want a letter or documentation sent somewhere, that happens only because you asked for it.
It is a common reason people wait years, and it is worth saying out loud at the first visit rather than working around it. Alice sees a lot of patients who are the first person in their family to sit down with a psychiatric provider, and the conversation is built for that rather than assuming you arrived comfortable with it.
Yes. No referral is required and no existing diagnosis is required. If it turns out something medical should be checked, Alice will tell you and help you figure out where to get it done, since her family practice certification means those questions do not get waved past.
Not at all, and it is worth saying so early. Explanations are given in ordinary language, and anything about a medication gets repeated in whichever language is clearer for you. Asking someone to say it again is treated as useful information, not an interruption.
Sleep is a normal part of what gets evaluated, especially for people on nights or rotating schedules. Treatment may involve medication, may involve changing how the sleep window is structured around your shifts, and often involves both. It is discussed rather than handed to you.
Let the office know as early as you can by calling or texting (703) 791-9099, and the appointment gets moved. The cancellation policy is published on the rates page. Appointments are booked one at a time rather than as a fixed weekly slot, which suits schedules that shift.
The visit has to be rescheduled. Virginia licensure means you need to be physically inside Virginia while the appointment is happening, even though the visit itself is by video. If you are traveling, move the appointment rather than joining from another state.
Call or text 988. This practice is not a crisis service and does not monitor messages overnight. If you are in immediate danger, go to the nearest emergency department.
More general questions are answered on the FAQ page.
Book online, or call or text (703) 791-9099 if you would rather ask a question first. New patients are usually seen within one to two weeks, no referral needed, and your coverage is verified beforehand. Email info@alicetrannp.com any time. If this is an emergency, call or text 988.
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