Adult psychiatric evaluations, medication management, and supportive therapy by secure video, so care fits around shift work and a long drive instead of competing with them.
Book an Appointment →Dale City has been here long enough to be its own place. Streets full of families who bought decades ago sit next to households that arrived last spring, and the mix of languages spoken at a single soccer field is closer to a county than a subdivision. What almost everyone shares is the drive. Some of the longest commutes in the region start on these streets, headed north on I-95 toward Springfield, the Pentagon, DC, or the bases.
Anh "Alice" Tran, PMHNP-BC, FNP-BC, is a dual board-certified psychiatric mental health and family nurse practitioner licensed in Virginia. She treats adults 18 to 65. Dale City patients are seen by secure video, which is the honest answer for a community this far from the office. The practice itself is at 3060 Williams Drive, Suite 300, Fairfax, VA 22031, in Merrifield, with free on-site parking, if you would rather come in.
The reasons people call from this part of Prince William County have a pattern to them. They usually involve time, sleep, and a household that cannot afford for anyone to fall apart.
Three or four hours a day in a vehicle is not a scheduling inconvenience. It is lost sleep, missed dinners, and a nervous system that never gets to stand down. People often arrive describing irritability and short fuses before they use the word depression.
Nurses, mechanics, warehouse and logistics staff, retail managers at Potomac Mills, contractors on early call. Rotating hours scramble sleep and appetite, and medication timing has to be built around the rotation rather than assumed.
Families connected to Quantico and Fort Belvoir carry deployments, moves, clearance paperwork, and the quiet expectation that everyone copes. Spouses in particular tend to postpone their own care until something breaks.
Two jobs, sometimes three, plus children and often a parent in the same house. When every hour is allocated, the first thing dropped is the appointment that only helps one person.
Adults who were never evaluated as children and got by on adrenaline and overtime. When the load grows, missed bills and unfinished projects start to look less like a character flaw and more like untreated ADHD.
In many households here an adult child handles the paperwork, the phone calls, and the translating for everyone else. That role is invisible work, and it wears people down long before they mention it.
Diagnosis matters less than what the symptom is doing to your week. The evaluation starts with the second question and works back toward the first.
Sleep and exhaustion. Insomnia is one of the most common opening complaints from Dale City, and it rarely travels alone. Short sleep from a 5:00 AM departure looks a great deal like depression from the outside, so untangling the two is usually step one. See insomnia.
Depression and burnout. Depression that still gets to work, plus burnout that has moved past ordinary tiredness. The PHQ-9 screener is free if you want language for it first.
Anxiety, panic, and OCD. Generalized anxiety, panic attacks that show up behind the wheel and get mistaken for a cardiac event, and OCD. The GAD-7 is available too.
Trauma and PTSD. Trauma responses from service, from work, from a car crash on the interstate, or from events that happened long before anyone moved to Virginia.
ADHD, bipolar disorder, and reproductive mental health. Adult ADHD, bipolar disorder, postpartum and perinatal mood changes, and grief that has stayed longer than expected. The adult ADHD self-check is a reasonable place to begin.
Psychiatric evaluation. The first appointment is a full 60 minutes, which is long enough to hear the whole story instead of a summary of it. Alice asks when things changed, what your days and nights look like, what you have already tried, what your family history holds, how much caffeine keeps the commute survivable, how alcohol fits in, and what other medical conditions are in play. People from Dale City frequently arrive with a diagnosis handed to them years ago in a rushed visit somewhere else. Checking whether that label still describes you is part of the work, not an insult to whoever made it.
Medication management. If medication is a reasonable option, it gets explained before it gets prescribed: what it should do, how many weeks that usually takes, which side effects show up early and fade, which ones mean call the office, and what happens if it turns out to be wrong for you. Doses follow your response, not a template. Prescriptions go to whichever pharmacy is actually convenient, including the ones open late near the Parkway. Controlled medications, stimulants for ADHD included, are prescribed under Virginia rules, and that occasionally means one trip to the Fairfax office. You will hear about that requirement up front rather than discovering it at the end. More detail sits on the medication management page.
Supportive therapy. Follow-ups are conversations, not checkbox visits. That can mean deciding whether to take the job with the shorter drive and smaller paycheck, working out how to protect five hours of sleep during a heavy overtime stretch, or naming a pattern that keeps repeating in the same relationship. When what you need is structured longer-term therapy, such as trauma processing or a full CBT course, Alice will tell you plainly and help you find the right clinician, and she will coordinate with anyone you already see. The services page covers the rest.
Paperwork arrives before the visit so the hour belongs to you rather than to forms. Answer what you can and leave the rest blank. Nothing on it is graded. Insurance is verified ahead of time so the cost is settled before you are sitting in front of a camera.
You join at doxy.me/alicetran a few minutes early. It opens in a browser, with no app to install and no account to make. The first stretch is just talking. Alice tends to start with why now, since the timing of the decision usually explains something the symptom list does not. From there she moves through history, medical background, current medications, and sleep, then says out loud what she is thinking and why. You leave with a plan you helped build. Most people book their next visit two to four weeks out.
There is no branch office in Prince William County, and pretending otherwise would waste your time. Dale City to Fairfax is a real drive, worse at the hours most people are free, so telehealth is the practical route. Visits are secure and happen at doxy.me/alicetran. You need to be physically in Virginia during the appointment, in a spot private enough to speak freely.
Visits are by video only. There are no telephone appointments and no phone fallback, because seeing you matters clinically. If the connection drops, rejoin the same link and the office will call to help you get back on so the visit finishes properly. In-person appointments are available in Fairfax if you prefer them, and some patients do the evaluation in the room and everything after by video. More on virtual care locally is on the Prince William telehealth page.
You see Alice every time. No rotating panel, no whoever happens to be free that week. In psychiatry the useful information accumulates: what a dose change did in February is the reason a different choice makes sense in October, and that only helps if the same person remembers it.
Her background covers more ground than most. Alice trained under psychiatrist Dr. Errol Segall, MD, who brings more than 50 years of clinical experience, and she holds dual board certification in psychiatric mental health and family practice. The family practice half is not decoration. Thyroid disease, anemia, untreated sleep apnea, and interactions with blood pressure or diabetes medications all get considered, which matters when the main complaint is fatigue or fog and someone has already been told it is stress.
Costs are published and flat. Self-pay runs $400 for the 60 minute initial evaluation, $200 for a 30 minute follow-up, and $250 for a 45 minute follow-up, with no membership and nothing added later. Aetna, Anthem, Cigna, Medicare, and Medicaid are accepted, checked before your first appointment. See rates, or read more about Alice.
Visits can be conducted fully in English or fully in Tiếng Việt, with no interpreter involved. In a community with this many first and second generation families, that removes a step that often keeps people from ever booking.
Patients come from across the county and the corridor. Alice also sees adults in Woodbridge, Lake Ridge, Bristow, and Gainesville, along with Montclair, Occoquan, and Manassas. Condition-specific reading is available for ADHD treatment, anxiety treatment, and depression treatment statewide. Telehealth reaches anywhere in Virginia.
No. The single office is at 3060 Williams Drive, Suite 300, Fairfax, VA 22031, in the Merrifield area, with free parking on site. Dale City sits well up I-95 from there, which is exactly why nearly all care for this community happens by video. Driving to Fairfax is an option if you want it, not a requirement.
Standard hours are Monday through Thursday, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM Eastern, and evening or weekend times may be available on request. Because visits are by video, the appointment costs you only the length of the appointment. A 30 minute follow-up can sit inside a lunch break or a gap between shifts instead of consuming a whole afternoon of driving.
It can. Timing matters for stimulants, for sedating medications, and for anything that affects sleep onset. Rotating shifts are worth describing in detail at the first visit, including which weeks are which, so the plan is built around your actual pattern rather than a standard morning schedule.
A parked car is the most common answer, followed by a bedroom with the door shut and headphones in. What matters is that you are physically in Virginia, somewhere reasonably private, with a connection steady enough for video. You are welcome to keep the camera close and speak quietly.
No. Visits are by video only, with no telephone option and no phone fallback. If the video drops mid-visit, you rejoin the same link at doxy.me/alicetran and the office will call to help you reconnect so the appointment finishes on video.
Virginia licensure means you must be physically in Virginia during a visit. If you move out of state, care here has to end, and Alice will provide a summary of your treatment and current prescriptions so a new clinician can pick up without starting from zero. Military-connected families in this area plan around that regularly.
Coverage is verified before the first visit, so the number is known in advance rather than after. Accepted plans include Aetna, Anthem, Cigna, Medicare, and Medicaid. Self-pay is flat: $400 for the 60 minute initial evaluation, $200 for a 30 minute follow-up, $250 for a 45 minute follow-up. No memberships, no hidden fees.
Sometimes it is, sometimes it is not, and the difference is worth sorting out. Chronic short sleep from a long commute produces real symptoms on its own. It can also mask depression, an anxiety disorder, or a thyroid problem. Because Alice is also board-certified in family practice, the medical possibilities get checked rather than skipped over.
No. This practice treats adults 18 to 65 only. If your child needs care, Alice can point you toward providers who work with adolescents, and parents often stay as patients themselves while managing everything that comes with a struggling teenager.
Let the office know as early as you can by calling or texting (703) 791-9099, and the visit gets rescheduled. Appointments are booked one at a time rather than as a fixed standing slot, which suits people whose schedules are published only a week or two ahead.
Call or text 988, or go to the nearest emergency department. This practice is not a crisis service and messages are not monitored around the clock. Nothing here replaces emergency care when someone is unsafe.
More general questions are answered 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 usually seen within one to two weeks, no referral needed, and your coverage is checked before the first appointment. Email works too: info@alicetrannp.com. If someone is in danger right now, call or text 988 instead.
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