Adult evaluations, medication management, and supportive therapy by secure video, booked one appointment at a time so travel weeks do not derail treatment.
Book an Appointment →Crystal City is built vertically and connected underneath. You can live, eat, shop, and get to a meeting without stepping outside, and National Landing has kept expanding around that spine. Overhead, planes descend into DCA on a schedule that residents learn by ear. For a lot of people here the airport is not scenery but infrastructure: the 6:00 AM Monday flight out, the Thursday night return, and a calendar that belongs to clients in other time zones.
Anh "Alice" Tran, PMHNP-BC, FNP-BC, is a dual board-certified psychiatric mental health and family nurse practitioner licensed in Virginia, seeing adults 18 to 65. Video is the practical route, and the scheduling is deliberately flexible rather than a fixed weekly slot. The office is at 3060 Williams Drive, Suite 300, Fairfax, VA 22031, in Merrifield, with free on-site parking, if you want an in-person appointment.
Psychiatric evaluation. The first appointment runs a full 60 minutes. That time gets used on the real sequence of events: when symptoms began, what was happening in your life then, what you have already tried and how each attempt turned out, family history, medical history, how you sleep in a normal week and a travel week, what you drink, and what an average day feels like from inside your head. People whose careers reward brevity tend to compress all of that into ninety seconds. The point of the hour is that they do not have to.
Medication management. If medication makes sense, you get the reasoning before the prescription: what it is expected to do, the honest timeline, side effects worth watching for early, and what happens if it turns out to be the wrong choice. Adjustments follow how you actually respond. Prescriptions go to whichever pharmacy is easiest, including one you can reach through the concourse without going outside. Controlled medications, stimulants for ADHD included, follow Virginia requirements, and that can mean an in-person appointment in Fairfax.
Supportive therapy. Follow-ups are conversations, not checkbox reviews. That can mean deciding whether a travel-heavy role is sustainable for another two years, working through what happens to a relationship when one person is gone half the month, or building a sleep plan that survives a schedule you do not control. When structured longer-term therapy is the right answer, trauma processing or a full CBT course for example, Alice will say so and help you find a therapist, and she coordinates with clinicians you already see. More on the services page.
Adult psychiatry, with particular attention to what happens when a life has very little regularity in it.
Insomnia and circadian disruption. Sleep that has been rearranged by early departures, late returns, and time zones, and no longer resets on its own. This is treated as a real clinical problem rather than a lifestyle complaint.
Anxiety and panic. Generalized anxiety, panic attacks, including the ones that first appear on a plane or in a crowded terminal, and obsessive compulsive patterns. The GAD-7 gives you language, and the anxiety treatment page covers more.
Depression and bipolar disorder. Depression that still makes every flight and every deliverable, bipolar disorder, and grief carried across a relocation. The PHQ-9 is free, with detail on the depression treatment page.
ADHD and burnout. Adult ADHD, often surfacing when travel removes the structure that had been holding everything together, plus burnout that has become clinical. See the adult ADHD self-check and the ADHD treatment page.
Trauma and reproductive mental health. PTSD and trauma responses, including trauma that has nothing to do with your current job, and postpartum and perinatal mood changes.
A dense high-rise neighborhood full of contractors, consultants, and people two years into a posting produces its own recognizable set of difficulties.
Three cities in five days, meals at odd hours, and no two weeks alike. Almost every strategy for managing mood and anxiety depends on some regularity, so the first task is usually finding what small piece of the schedule can be held constant.
Early alarms, late returns, and a body that stops knowing when night is. Chronic short sleep magnifies irritability, concentration problems, and low mood, and it is often the most treatable place to start.
Contracts and rotations that come with an expiry date. Some people stop investing in friendships because they already know the end, and then find themselves genuinely alone in a building of eight hundred apartments.
A partner in another city, children seen on weekends, parents in another country. Maintaining connection across airports is work, and the strain of it rarely gets counted as a stressor.
The concourse makes it possible to go days without daylight, particularly in winter. That is convenient and it also removes one of the more reliable inputs to mood and sleep regulation.
A prescriber left behind in the last posting, a refill that ran out, and months of intending to sort it out. Reestablishing treatment is usually faster and less complicated than people expect.
One clinician, every time. If you have moved between large systems and seen a different face at each appointment, the difference is immediate. Psychiatric decisions improve as history accumulates, and continuity is what makes that history usable.
Alice trained under psychiatrist Dr. Errol Segall, MD, whose clinical experience runs beyond 50 years, and she is dual board-certified in psychiatric mental health and family practice. The family practice side matters when the presenting complaint is exhaustion: thyroid function, anemia, vitamin D, sleep apnea, and interactions with other medications get examined rather than assumed irrelevant, which is a common failure point for travel-heavy patients who assume the answer is simply the schedule.
Pricing is published and flat. 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 nothing hidden. Aetna, Anthem, Cigna, Medicare, and Medicaid are accepted, verified before your first appointment. Current numbers are on the rates page, and there is more about Alice.
Care can be delivered fully in English or fully in Tiếng Việt without an interpreter.
Video is the main route, and for a neighborhood this mobile it is the format that survives a real calendar. Visits are secure and take place at doxy.me/alicetran, which opens in a browser with nothing to install. Appointments are by video and never by telephone. If the connection drops, you rejoin the same link while the office calls to help you reconnect so the visit is completed on video. You do have to be physically in Virginia during the appointment.
In-person appointments happen in Fairfax at 3060 Williams Drive, Suite 300, generally 25 to 35 minutes from Crystal City with free parking on site. Some patients come in once for the evaluation and use video after that. It is the same provider either way. The Northern Virginia telehealth page explains the mechanics further.
Intake paperwork is sent ahead so the hour is not consumed by forms. Fill in what you can and leave the rest; nothing is being graded. Coverage is verified in advance so you know the cost before the appointment rather than weeks afterward.
Open doxy.me/alicetran a few minutes early. No download, no account. The first stretch is conversation, and Alice usually begins with why now, since the thing that finally produced a booking is often the single most informative detail in the appointment. From there she works through symptoms, history, medical background, and current medications, then tells you what she is thinking and the reasoning behind it. You leave with a plan you agreed to. Most patients schedule a first follow-up two to four weeks out, and travel-heavy patients often set a longer interval deliberately.
Patients come from both sides of the line here. Alice sees adults in Pentagon City, Potomac Yard, Courthouse, Shirlington, and across Arlington, as well as Old Town Alexandria, the rest of Alexandria, Springfield, and Fairfax. Video visits are available anywhere in Virginia.
Yes. Appointments are booked one at a time rather than held as a standing weekly slot, so each follow-up can be placed in a week you are home. If your itinerary firms up late, call or text (703) 791-9099 and we will move things. Frequent travelers often prefer a 45 minute follow-up at a longer interval instead of shorter appointments they keep having to reschedule.
No. You must be physically located in Virginia during the appointment, because that is where Alice is licensed. A hotel room in Denver or Dallas does not qualify, even though the technology would work fine. This catches a lot of travel-heavy patients off guard, so it is worth planning around from the start.
It can be. Chronically disrupted sleep is both a symptom and a driver, and it worsens mood, attention, and anxiety in a loop that is hard to exit while the schedule stays the same. An evaluation separates a circadian problem from insomnia from a mood condition, because those three call for different responses even though they feel similar at 3:00 AM.
Bedrooms with headphones, parked cars in the building garage, and booked conference rooms are the three most common answers. Headphones matter most, because they keep the other half of the conversation from carrying. What you need is privacy and a stable connection, not a particular room.
To your security officer, or to an attorney who works in that area. Alice is a clinician and does not give legal advice on clearance matters. Two things can be stated plainly: clinical records are confidential, and seeking mental health care does not automatically jeopardize a clearance. Eligibility is decided by security officials rather than by a treating provider, which is exactly why specific questions belong with them.
Usually yes. Two years is a long time to postpone something treatable, and most of the value in psychiatric care shows up in the first several months. If a future move keeps you inside Virginia, care continues without interruption. If it takes you out of state, Alice will put together a clear summary of diagnoses, medications, doses, and responses so the transition is not a restart.
Sometimes, and it depends on the medication and on current Virginia requirements, which can call for an in-person appointment at the Fairfax office. Stimulants for ADHD fall into this category. Alice will tell you at the evaluation what your specific plan requires rather than leaving you to discover it at the pharmacy counter.
Monday through Thursday, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM Eastern. Evening and weekend appointments may be available on request, which is worth asking about if your travel makes weekday mornings impossible. New patients are generally seen within one to two weeks.
Open doxy.me/alicetran in a browser a few minutes before your appointment time. There is no app to download and no account to create. Allow the browser to use your camera and microphone, and you will be in a virtual waiting room until Alice starts the visit. All appointments are by video rather than telephone.
Short messages about side effects, pharmacy problems, or scheduling are part of ordinary care and are not billed separately. There are no membership fees and no hidden charges. If a question really needs a clinical conversation rather than a reply, we will book you an appointment instead of trying to handle it in writing.
Call or text 988, or go to the nearest emergency department. This practice is not a crisis service and does not monitor calls, texts, or email around the clock, so it is not the right resource in that moment. Once you are safe, an appointment here can be part of what comes next.
Further questions are covered on the FAQ page.
Booking online takes a couple of minutes, or call or text (703) 791-9099 if you would rather ask something first. New patients are typically seen within one to two weeks, no referral is required, and coverage is verified in advance. Email info@alicetrannp.com if that suits you better. This is not a crisis service; if you need help right now, call or text 988.
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