Dumfries and the Route 1 corridor are growing fast, and access to psychiatric care should grow with them. Alice Tran, PMHNP-BC offers psychiatric care in English and Tiếng Việt, in person in Fairfax or by secure video.
Book an Appointment →Dumfries, Virginia's oldest chartered town, is in the middle of a new chapter: rapid growth along Route 1, military families from Quantico, and commuters heading north daily. Access is the theme here: most insurance accepted, telehealth to your door, and evaluations within one to two weeks.
Alice Tran, PMHNP-BC grew up between two worlds, Vietnamese at home and American everywhere else. She provides psychiatric evaluations, medication management, and supportive therapy fully in Vietnamese or English, with no interpreter needed. When it helps, parents and family members can join the conversation, so care feels clearer and more comfortable for everyone involved. Khám và tư vấn hoàn toàn bằng tiếng Việt.
The Fairfax office at 3060 Williams Drive is about a thirty-five-minute drive from Dumfries, with free on-site parking, and every service is also available by secure video anywhere in Virginia. Most major insurances are accepted, including Medicare and Medicaid, and new patients are typically seen within one to two weeks.
From the first evaluation to every follow-up, care can happen fully in Vietnamese, including visits with your parents or elders. Learn more →
Racing thoughts, heaviness, irritability, or simply feeling like a dimmer version of yourself. You do not need a perfect label to start getting help.
When family expectations, cultural duty, and your own dreams pull in different directions, the stress is real. Care here starts from understanding rather than explanation.
Adult ADHD hides behind willpower and overwork for decades. A structured evaluation separates it from anxiety, depression, and sleep problems.
Dumfries sits next to Marine Corps Base Quantico, and a large share of the people who call from here are Marines, federal employees, cleared contractors, or the spouses holding it together around all of it.
The question that comes up first is almost never about symptoms. It is about consequences. Will this reach my command, will it affect my clearance, will it follow me. Those concerns deserve a straight answer rather than reassurance.
Your treatment record belongs to you. It is not released to a command or an employer without your written authorization, outside the narrow legal exceptions that apply to every medical provider. On clearances, adjudication looks at judgment, reliability, and whether a condition is being managed, and seeking treatment generally reads in your favor. Untreated problems that spill into work, finances, or relationships are the greater risk. Your facility security officer is the right person for questions about your specific agency.
And a word for spouses, who are often the ones carrying the most and asking for the least. Repeated moves, interrupted careers, and solo parenting through a deployment are their own kind of hard, and they count.
Care that is separate from the base is care that feels separate. For many people that is the difference between going and not going.
You do not need to be the service member to be the one who needs an appointment.
In network with Humana Military for TRICARE East, alongside Anthem, Medicare, and Medicaid.
No drive up Route 1, no parking, and nobody sees you walk in anywhere.
Yes, truly in Vietnamese, not through an interpreter. Alice grew up speaking it and conducts full evaluations and follow-ups in Tiếng Việt.
Adults ages 18 to 65 are seen here. That includes parents and elders who have never talked about mental health before; those visits are handled with special care and in Vietnamese when preferred.
Most major insurance is accepted, Medicare and Medicaid included. Check the Rates page for the up-to-date list and transparent self-pay pricing.
The Fairfax office at 3060 Williams Drive, Suite 300 is about a thirty-five-minute drive from Dumfries, with free parking. Telehealth visits are also available anywhere in Virginia.
Not from this practice. Your treatment record is not released to a command or an employer without your written authorization, outside the narrow legal exceptions every medical provider operates under.
The practice is in network with Humana Military, the administrator for TRICARE East. TRICARE Prime usually requires a referral for outpatient specialty care while TRICARE Select generally does not, so call the number on your card and confirm which applies before booking.
In person in Fairfax or by video. English & Tiếng Việt. Board-certified PMHNP.
Book Now →Or call/text: (703) 791-9099
Many people searching for a psychiatrist in Dumfries 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.