Psychiatric evaluations, medication management, and supportive therapy for adults 18 to 65, in person in Fairfax or by secure video from home.
Book an Appointment →East Falls Church is quieter than the corridors around it. Streets of older homes, mature trees, people who moved in when the mortgage rate was a different number entirely, and a Metro station on the Orange and Silver lines that sends a portion of the neighborhood downtown every morning and brings them back after dark. The Arlington line runs right along the edge, which means some neighbors have an Arlington address and some have a Falls Church one and everyone shops in the same places.
Anh "Alice" Tran, PMHNP-BC, FNP-BC, is a dual board-certified psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner and family nurse practitioner, licensed in Virginia. She treats adults 18 to 65. The office at 3060 Williams Drive, Suite 300, Fairfax, VA 22031 is roughly fifteen to twenty minutes away in the Merrifield area with free parking, which puts East Falls Church in the small group of neighborhoods where coming in person is genuinely practical. Secure video visits are available too, and most patients end up using both.
Psychiatric evaluation. Sixty minutes for the first visit. That is long enough to hear the whole sequence rather than a summary: when this started, what else was going on, what has been tried, what worked and for how long, what runs in the family, how sleep has been, and what a plain weekday feels like from the inside. In a neighborhood with a lot of long medical histories, that also means reviewing the things you were told years ago and checking whether they still hold.
Medication management. When medication makes sense, it is explained first: the purpose, the realistic timeline, what to watch for in the early weeks, and the plan if it turns out to be wrong for you. Adjustments follow how you actually respond. Prescriptions go wherever you already fill them. Controlled medications, including stimulants for ADHD, follow Virginia rules, and being close to the office makes any required in-person visit straightforward. The medication management page covers this in more depth.
Supportive therapy. Every follow-up includes actual conversation. For patients here that often means an adult child who has moved back, a parent whose care needs are growing, retirement that arrived sooner than planned, or a marriage that has gone quiet. When a situation calls for structured longer-term therapy, Alice says so and helps you find the right therapist, and she coordinates with clinicians you already work with. See the services page for more.
Forms come to you ahead of time so the hour is not spent on them. Complete what you can and leave the rest. Coverage is verified before the visit so cost is settled in advance rather than in a bill later.
If you come to Fairfax, park in the lot and come up to Suite 300. If you join by video, open doxy.me/alicetran a few minutes early in any browser. Either way the first stretch is conversation. Alice tends to start with what made now the moment, because timing usually carries information. From there she works through symptoms, history, medical background, and current medications including anything over the counter. Then she explains her thinking before a plan exists, so you can disagree with it while it is still forming. Most people book a first follow-up two to four weeks out.
Staying in one place for a long time has real benefits and a few costs that rarely get named.
Twenty years of the same platform, the same delays, the same hour lost twice a day. People adapt to it so completely that they stop counting it, and then wonder why the evenings feel so thin.
Aging in place works until it does not. Adult children managing a parent's decline while holding a full job describe a specific mix of guilt, exhaustion, and anticipatory grief that responds well to being treated rather than endured.
Children finish school and leave, or finish school and return. Either version reorganizes a household. Mood symptoms that were manageable inside a busy routine often surface once the routine changes shape.
Adults here frequently start asking about ADHD after watching a child get evaluated. Decades of lost keys, unfinished projects, and last-minute effort suddenly line up into a pattern rather than a personality.
Well-kept yard, stable job, grown kids doing fine. Depression that keeps meeting its obligations is easy to hide and easy to dismiss, including by the person carrying it.
Long tenure in a neighborhood means outliving friends, watching families move away, and attending more funerals each decade. Grief that has settled in past a year is worth bringing to a visit.
Mood. Depression, including the version that shows up as flatness and loss of interest rather than sadness, alongside bipolar disorder and grief that has lasted longer than anyone expected. The PHQ-9 and depression treatment pages are open to read.
Anxiety and OCD. Generalized anxiety, panic, and obsessive compulsive patterns, including health anxiety that grows after a scare in the family. Try the GAD-7 or read about anxiety treatment.
Attention. Adult ADHD, both first-time evaluations and restarting treatment that stopped in college. The adult ADHD self-check and ADHD treatment pages give you a place to begin.
Trauma, sleep, and life stage. PTSD and trauma responses, insomnia that arrived in midlife and stayed, burnout, and postpartum and perinatal mood changes for the younger families moving into the neighborhood.
Continuity. You see Alice at every appointment, which matters more than it sounds like it should. Psychiatric decisions are built on what came before, and a provider who remembers the year you tried something and why it was stopped makes better calls than a chart summary does.
Her training also brings something practical. 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. Thyroid function, anemia, sleep apnea, and interactions with medications for blood pressure or cholesterol are all part of the picture rather than someone else's problem, which counts for a lot when fatigue is the main complaint.
Pricing is published and flat: $400 for the 60 minute evaluation, $200 for a 30 minute follow-up, and $250 for a 45 minute follow-up. No memberships and no add-on fees. Aetna, Anthem, Cigna, Medicare, and Medicaid are accepted, and coverage is verified before the first visit. The rates page is kept current, and there is more about Alice if you want the background before you call.
Visits can be conducted fully in English or fully in Tiếng Việt. Falls Church is home to Eden Center, the cultural hub of the region's Vietnamese community, and care in Vietnamese happens here without an interpreter in the room.
Being close to the office changes the calculation. Many East Falls Church patients come in for the initial evaluation, then switch to video for routine follow-ups, and come back in whenever something significant is changing. That combination is easy to arrange because the drive is short and parking is free.
Video visits are exactly that, video. Never telephone. You join at doxy.me/alicetran in a browser, with nothing to install. If the connection drops mid-visit, you rejoin the same link and pick up where you left off, and the office will call to help you reconnect so the appointment finishes on video. Telehealth is available anywhere in Virginia as long as you are physically in the state during the visit. See the Northern Virginia telehealth page for more.
East Falls Church sits where Arlington and Fairfax County meet, so patients come from either direction. Alice also sees adults in Falls Church, West Falls Church, Arlington, the Columbia Pike corridor, McLean, Vienna, Merrifield, and Fairfax. Telehealth reaches the rest of Virginia.
Usually fifteen to twenty minutes outside of rush hour, down Route 29 or Route 50 toward Merrifield. The office is at 3060 Williams Drive, Suite 300, Fairfax, VA 22031, with free parking in the lot. This is one of the neighborhoods where in-person visits are genuinely convenient rather than technically possible.
That is one of the more common ways adults arrive at an evaluation. A full adult assessment looks back at your own school years and forward at how attention affects work, money, driving, and family logistics now. Being related to someone with a diagnosis is not itself a diagnosis, so the evaluation stands on its own.
Your record is protected health information and is not disclosed to anyone without your written authorization. Video visits mean nothing is visible from a parking lot. If insurance is used, the explanation of benefits shows that a telehealth visit occurred, not what was discussed.
No. This practice treats adults 18 through 65 only, which is a scope decision rather than a judgment about need. If you are outside that range, call or text (703) 791-9099 and the office will try to point you toward providers who work with older adults.
Yes, as separate patients with separate records and separate appointments. What one of you discusses is not shared with the other. Some couples find that arrangement useful, others prefer different providers entirely, and either choice is fine.
Only if that is what you want and it makes clinical sense. Some patients move psychiatric prescribing over entirely, others keep it where it is and come here for an evaluation and a second opinion. Alice is glad to coordinate with your primary care office either way.
Usually shorter and less frequent. Once things are stable, many people move to every two or three months, using a 30 minute visit to review how the medication is holding, check anything new, and talk through whatever the season has brought. Follow-ups run 30 or 45 minutes depending on how much there is to cover.
A suite in an office building in the Merrifield area of Fairfax, with free on-site parking and no crowded waiting room. Visits are scheduled so people are not stacked on top of each other. If you would rather see the building before committing, the address and map are on the contact page.
It can, and it is worth mentioning. Without the scaffolding of a fixed schedule, low mood and attention problems often look like drifting rather than like symptoms. Part of the evaluation is separating a genuine change in your functioning from a change in your routine.
It varies widely. Some come for an evaluation, a few months of adjustment, and a plan handed back to their primary care doctor. Others stay for years because ongoing management is what keeps things steady. There is no minimum commitment and no membership to leave.
He has to be the one to consent and attend, and he has to be between 18 and 65. You are welcome to help him book and even to sit in for part of the first visit if he wants that. What cannot happen is treatment arranged around someone rather than with them.
Call or text 988, which reaches the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. This practice does not provide crisis coverage and messages are not monitored overnight. If there is immediate danger, go to the nearest emergency department or call 911.
More general questions are answered on the FAQ page.
Book online in a few minutes, or call or text (703) 791-9099 to ask something first. New patients are typically seen within one to two weeks, no referral required, and insurance is verified before your first appointment. You can also email info@alicetrannp.com. In an emergency, call or text 988.
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