Evaluations, medication management, and supportive therapy for adults 18 to 65, by secure video, scheduled around drop-off, pickup, and the rest of it.
Book an Appointment →Del Ray is one of the few places in Northern Virginia that genuinely functions like a small town. Mount Vernon Avenue does the work of a main street, people know their neighbors' dogs by name, and the parade turnout says something real about how much residents like living here. That closeness is a resource. It can also make it feel like there is nowhere to go when things are not fine, because half the avenue would recognize you walking into a clinic.
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. Del Ray patients are seen almost entirely by video, from a home office, a kitchen table after the school run, or a parked car. The practice office is at 3060 Williams Drive, Suite 300, Fairfax, VA 22031, in Merrifield, with free on-site parking, for anyone who prefers to be seen in person.
Psychiatric evaluation. Sixty minutes, and none of it rushed. The conversation covers when symptoms began, what else was happening then, what you have tried and how it went, family history, sleep, caffeine, alcohol, and what a normal weekday actually feels like from where you are standing. Parents in particular arrive with the story already compressed into an apology. The hour exists so it can be uncompressed. If someone labeled you years ago in a fifteen minute appointment, part of the work is checking whether that label was ever right.
Medication management. Nothing gets prescribed without an explanation you can repeat to your partner afterward: what the medication is meant to change, roughly how long that takes, what side effects tend to show up in the first two weeks, and what the plan is if it does not suit you. Adjustments track your response rather than a fixed schedule. Prescriptions go to whichever pharmacy is on your normal route. Controlled medications, stimulants for ADHD included, follow Virginia rules, which can mean one in-person appointment at the Fairfax office.
Supportive therapy. Follow-ups involve actual conversation. That might be untangling resentment over an uneven division of labor at home, deciding whether to step back from a job, or building a realistic sleep plan when a child still wakes at night. When the situation calls for structured longer-term therapy, such as trauma processing or a full CBT course, Alice says so directly and helps you find someone, and she coordinates with a therapist you already have. Details are on the services page.
A neighborhood full of two-career households with young children produces a fairly specific set of pressures. These come up often enough to name.
Both adults working full time, both commutes non-trivial, and no grandparents nearby. The system holds until one thing goes wrong, and then nothing has slack in it. That is a structural problem people tend to experience as personal failure.
Mood changes after a birth do not always start in the first six weeks, and they are easy to write off as normal new-parent depletion. Some parents here get to a second child before anyone asks the right question.
Strong community identity cuts both ways. Being known is protective. It also means some residents will drive twenty minutes to a different zip code rather than be seen going somewhere local, or simply not go at all.
Del Ray attracts artists, makers, and people running something of their own. Irregular income is its own low-frequency anxiety, and it is rarely the thing patients lead with.
Adults who hold it together at work and fall apart on logistics: permission slips, appointments, the mental inventory of a household. Undiagnosed ADHD often shows up first as a fight about who forgot what.
A parent dies, a pregnancy ends, a friendship closes, and there is no room in the calendar to feel any of it. Grief postponed does not disappear. It usually resurfaces as irritability or as a body that stops sleeping.
Adult psychiatry, with attention to the version of a condition that shows up in a household rather than the version in a textbook.
Perinatal and postpartum mood. Depression and anxiety during pregnancy and after birth, including intrusive thoughts that frighten people into silence. This comes up frequently in a neighborhood with this many young families.
Mood conditions. Depression that still gets everyone to school on time, bipolar disorder, and grief that has stayed longer than the people around you expected. The PHQ-9 screener is free if you want a starting point.
Anxiety, panic, and OCD. Generalized anxiety, panic attacks that convince you something is wrong with your heart, and obsessive compulsive patterns, including the postpartum variety that fixes on the baby's safety. Try the GAD-7 for language.
Attention. Adult ADHD, very often diagnosed for the first time by a parent who recognized themselves while reading about their child. The adult ADHD self-check is a reasonable first step.
Trauma, burnout, and sleep. PTSD and trauma responses, burnout that has become clinical, and insomnia that no longer answers to good habits.
Video is the primary route, and for a neighborhood built around walking and school schedules it is usually the one that survives contact with a real week. A 30 minute follow-up from your own house costs 30 minutes. Visits are at doxy.me/alicetran, secure, and always by video rather than telephone. If the picture freezes and drops, you rejoin the same link and the office calls to help you get back in so the appointment finishes properly.
In-person appointments are available in Fairfax at 3060 Williams Drive, Suite 300, about 25 minutes up the road with free parking on site. A common pattern is an in-person evaluation followed by video for everything after. You are seeing the same provider either way. The Northern Virginia telehealth page explains the mechanics in more depth.
Paperwork comes to you in advance so the hour is not spent on forms. Fill in what you know and skip what you do not; there is no grade attached. Coverage is verified beforehand so the cost is settled before the appointment rather than after.
Join doxy.me/alicetran a few minutes early. No app, no account. The first stretch is just talking, and Alice usually starts with why now, because what tipped you into booking is often the most informative detail available. From there she moves through symptoms, history, medical background, and current medications, then tells you what she thinks and how she got there. You leave with a plan you had a hand in. First follow-ups are typically two to four weeks out.
You see Alice at every appointment. There is no rotating panel and no getting handed to whoever has an opening. In psychiatry, continuity is not a nicety. What happened when a dose changed in February is the information that tells you what to do in September, and it only helps if the same person is holding it.
Alice trained under psychiatrist Dr. Errol Segall, MD, who has more than 50 years of clinical experience, and she carries dual board certification in psychiatric mental health and family practice. That second certification matters more than it sounds: postpartum thyroid changes, iron deficiency, sleep apnea, and interactions with medications you already take get considered rather than skipped, which is exactly where a lot of fatigue complaints get mishandled.
Pricing is published and flat. Self-pay runs $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, and coverage is verified before your first appointment. See the rates page for current numbers or read more about Alice.
Visits happen fully in English or fully in Tiếng Việt, with no interpreter involved.
Patients come from up and down the avenue and from the areas that border it. Alice sees adults across Alexandria, including Old Town and Potomac Yard, plus Shirlington, Arlington, Springfield, and Fairfax. If you are researching a particular concern, the statewide anxiety treatment, depression treatment, and ADHD treatment pages go deeper. Video visits reach anywhere in Virginia.
Video visits mean there is no waiting room on Mount Vernon Avenue where somebody from the block might see you. Your records are confidential health records and are not shared without your written permission, except in the narrow safety situations the law requires. Nobody at your child's school, your employer, or your neighborhood association learns anything from this practice.
It happens constantly and it is fine. Alice sees a lot of parents of small children, and an interrupted appointment is still a useful appointment. If you need a moment, take it. If the timing is truly impossible, we can move the visit to a window when there is a second adult in the house.
Mood changes connected to the postpartum period do not always follow the timeline people expect, and they can surface well after the newborn stage, particularly around weaning, a return to work, or a second pregnancy. It is worth an evaluation rather than an assumption that you missed the window.
Yes, as separate patients with separate records. Alice does not do couples therapy, and what one of you says stays with that record unless you give written permission otherwise. Some two-career households in Del Ray find it simpler to have one provider who understands the shared logistics. Others prefer to keep it entirely separate, which is equally fine.
Regular hours are Monday through Thursday, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM Eastern. Evening and weekend times may be available on request, so it is worth asking rather than assuming. Call or text (703) 791-9099 and describe your constraints, and we will look for something that works.
An evaluation separates ordinary exhaustion from something that has a shape and a course of its own. Alice looks at when it started, whether it lifts on a good weekend, what your sleep does when the children sleep, and whether the worry attaches to things that are not actually about the kids. Sometimes the answer is that you are stretched thin. Sometimes it is a treatable condition sitting underneath being stretched thin.
Adults 18 to 65 only. Alice does not see children or adolescents, and she does not take new patients over 65. If your teenager needs psychiatric care, ask your pediatrician for a child and adolescent referral.
No referral is needed. You can book directly online, or call or text and we will get you scheduled. If you would like your primary care office kept in the loop afterward, that is easy to arrange with your written permission.
The second visit is where the plan gets tested against reality. You report what you noticed, including the parts that were unpleasant, and Alice adjusts. Doses go up, down, or stay put based on your response. It is normal for the first plan to need tuning, and that is not a sign that something went wrong.
Yes. Care is available fully in English, fully in Tiếng Việt, or moving between the two as you go, with no interpreter involved. For a lot of bilingual patients, the language that holds the feeling is not the language that holds the work vocabulary, and there is no reason to fight that during an appointment.
No. The practice provides psychiatric evaluation, medication management, and supportive therapy, and not every plan includes a prescription. Some patients come for an evaluation, get a clear explanation of what is happening, and leave with a plan built on sleep, structure, and a referral to a therapist.
More general answers are on the FAQ page.
Book online in a couple of minutes, or call or text (703) 791-9099 if you would rather ask a question before committing. New patients are usually seen within one to two weeks, no referral needed, and insurance is checked in advance. Email info@alicetrannp.com works too. This is not a crisis service; if you need help right now, call or text 988.
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