Alice Tran, PMHNP-BC provides evaluations, medication management, and supportive therapy for adults in the Fair Lakes area. Telehealth anywhere in Virginia, or in person at the Fairfax office with free parking.
Book an Appointment →Fair Lakes was designed around work. Glass office buildings line the parkway, corporate and government contracting employers fill them, and the shopping center exists mostly so that people can handle errands in the twenty minutes they have between obligations. Around that core sit neighborhoods full of families who chose this stretch of Fairfax County for the schools, the access to I-66, and the short hop to Fairfax Corner. It is a place where a lot gets accomplished and very little slows down.
That pace is exactly why psychiatric care needs to be reachable rather than another logistical project. Alice Tran, PMHNP-BC is a dual board-certified psychiatric mental health and family nurse practitioner licensed in Virginia. She treats adults 18 to 65, offers most appointments by secure video, and can usually see new patients within one to two weeks. No referral is required.
Care here is straightforward and unhurried, which sounds contradictory in a page about busy people. It is not. Fewer, longer, better-focused appointments beat a stream of rushed ones.
Sixty minutes to build the full picture: symptoms, timeline, medical history, prior treatments, sleep, work demands, and what you want back. The output is a diagnosis you understand and a plan you agreed to.
Deliberate prescribing with clear reasoning, realistic timelines for when a medication should start working, and a plan for what to do if it does not.
Included in visits. Useful for sleep hygiene that survives a laptop in the bedroom, for boundaries around after-hours messages, and for the perfectionism that drives a lot of high performers into the ground.
If you already have a therapist or a primary care physician, treatment is coordinated with them at your request rather than run in isolation.
Adult ADHD evaluation is one of the most requested services from this part of the county, and for good reason. Professionals who succeeded through school on intelligence and adrenaline often hit a wall in their thirties when the job stops providing external structure. The evaluation here is a structured clinical interview covering attention, organization, time management, restlessness, and impulsivity across your whole life, supported by validated rating scales and, when useful, history from someone who knew you as a child. That takes longer than a checklist and produces a far more trustworthy answer. When medication is appropriate, it is prescribed and monitored under current Virginia regulations. Start with the adult ADHD page, the statewide ADHD treatment overview, or the free adult ADHD screener. Everything offered is listed on the services page.
Anxiety in this population is usually productive-looking. It shows up as over-preparation, a mind that runs simulations of tomorrow's meeting at midnight, and a body that has been braced for so long the tension feels normal. Depression is often described not as sadness but as being switched off: still delivering at work, but with nothing left for the people at home.
Burnout is treated seriously and distinguished carefully from depression, because the two overlap and the treatments are not identical. Insomnia gets its own evaluation instead of an automatic sleep aid. Panic disorder often begins with a single episode in a parking garage or on a stretch of highway, and the fear of the next one becomes the real problem. OCD is regularly mistaken for conscientiousness for a decade before anyone names it. Trauma histories, bipolar disorder, perinatal and postpartum mood changes, and grief that has outlasted what people expected of it all belong here too.
Further reading is available on the anxiety and depression pages, and the GAD-7 and PHQ-9 screeners give you a private baseline in about two minutes. They are conversation starters, not diagnoses.
A lot of the work anchored in these office parks runs on contract cycles: proposal deadlines, recompete season, quarterly targets, and the periodic anxiety of wondering whether the program gets funded again. That is a specific kind of stress, chronic and low-grade with sharp spikes, and it is very good at producing insomnia and irritability without ever announcing itself as a mental health problem.
Commuting compounds it. Whether the drive is east on I-66 toward the Beltway or a hybrid schedule that means three unpredictable days in traffic, the hours spent in a car are hours not spent recovering. People arrive home already depleted and then start the second shift: homework, dinner, activities, and often an aging parent who needs checking on.
Caregiving in both directions is a real theme here. Adults in their forties and fifties are frequently managing a teenager under enormous academic pressure and a parent whose health is turning at the same time. They are competent, organized, and completely out of margin. When they finally call, it is often because someone at home said something, or because sleep stopped working entirely.
Younger professionals call for different reasons: a first serious job, a first real experience of panic, or a growing suspicion after years of near-misses that untreated ADHD explains more of their history than they realized. All of these are reasonable moments to ask for an evaluation.
This is a small practice with one provider, which means continuity. The person who evaluates you is the person who adjusts your medication a year from now, and you never have to reconstruct your history for a stranger.
Alice Tran, PMHNP-BC, FNP-BC is board certified in both psychiatric mental health and family practice. The second certification matters clinically: fatigue, poor concentration, and low mood can come from thyroid disease, sleep apnea, iron deficiency, or an interaction with a medication you are already taking, and a provider trained to consider those does not simply reach for an antidepressant. She trained under psychiatrist Dr. Errol Segall, MD, whose clinical experience spans more than fifty years, and she is licensed in Virginia.
Pricing is transparent. Self-pay is $400 for the 60-minute initial visit, $200 for a 30-minute follow-up, and $250 for a 45-minute follow-up. There are no memberships and no hidden fees, which is worth noting in a market full of subscription psychiatry. Most major insurance plans are accepted, including Aetna, Anthem, Cigna, Medicare, and Medicaid, and coverage is verified before your first appointment. Care is also available fully in English or Tiếng Việt with no interpreter. More detail is on the rates page and the about page.
Intake forms are completed online in advance so the appointment itself is not spent on a clipboard. If you come to the office, park free at 3060 Williams Drive and go to Suite 300. If you join by video, open doxy.me/alicetran a minute or two before your time.
Alice will ask what prompted the call and how long it has been building, then work through sleep, energy, focus, mood, appetite, anxiety, physical symptoms, medical conditions, current medications and supplements, prior psychiatric treatment, family history, and alcohol and caffeine intake. Expect direct questions and honest answers. At the end you will hear what she thinks is happening and what she is not yet sure about, along with the options and their trade-offs. You leave with a plan, a follow-up appointment, and clear instructions on what to watch for and when to reach out.
Most patients from this side of the county are seen by video, and it is easy to see why: a 30-minute follow-up from a home office or a closed conference room costs you half an hour, not half a day of leave and forty minutes on Route 50.
Telehealth visits are available anywhere in Virginia at doxy.me/alicetran, with no download and no account. When you would rather meet in person, the Fairfax office in the Merrifield area is about twenty minutes east depending on traffic, with free parking at the building. You can move between the two formats freely, and many people do the initial evaluation in person and everything after that on video.
Patients come from Fair Oaks, Fairfax Corner, Fairfax, Chantilly, Centreville, Oakton, Burke, Merrifield, Annandale, and Falls Church. Telehealth extends care to every other part of Virginia, and Vietnamese-speaking patients anywhere in the state can read more on the Vietnamese psychiatric care page.
Your records are confidential and are not released without your written authorization. Questions about how mental health treatment interacts with a clearance are handled by your agency or facility security officer, not by this practice, and that is where those questions belong. What happens here is that your care stays private unless you direct otherwise.
Yes. Office hours run Monday through Thursday, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM Eastern, and evenings or weekends may be available on request. A 30-minute telehealth follow-up fits between calls without leaving your desk or booking half a day of leave.
When it is clinically appropriate and you request it, yes. Supporting documentation is written based on the actual evaluation and treatment record, and only with your consent. What can be stated depends on what the assessment supports, so it is worth raising early rather than the week a form is due.
Carefully, and without assuming that achievement rules it out. Many capable adults compensate for years with long hours, lists, and adrenaline until a promotion or a new role removes the structure they were leaning on. The evaluation looks at effort and cost, not just outcomes, across both childhood and adult functioning.
Both diagnose psychiatric conditions and prescribe medication. The training paths differ: a psychiatrist attends medical school and residency, while a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner completes graduate nursing education and national board certification. Alice is board certified in both psychiatric mental health and family practice and is licensed in Virginia.
Supportive therapy is part of visits rather than a separate product. That means practical work on sleep, stress, thinking patterns, and boundaries alongside any medication. If you would benefit from longer weekly psychotherapy, that can be discussed and coordinated with a therapist.
Usually every two to four weeks while a treatment is being started or adjusted, then every one to three months once you are stable. Some medications require closer monitoring than others. The interval is set by what you need clinically, not by a fixed schedule.
Absolutely, and many patients do. Splitting care between a therapist for weekly sessions and a prescriber for medication is a common and effective arrangement. With your permission, the two can communicate so everyone is working from the same picture.
The office is at 3060 Williams Drive, Suite 300, Fairfax, VA 22031, in the Merrifield area, roughly twenty minutes east on I-66 or Route 50 outside of rush hour. Parking is free and on site. Most patients in this area choose telehealth for follow-ups and save the drive.
Yes, with one important limit: telehealth visits require you to be physically located in Virginia at the time of the appointment, because that is where the license applies. Travel within the state is fine. If you will be out of state, we schedule around it.
Yes. A large share of first appointments are exactly that: a capable adult who cannot point to one thing wrong but knows something has shifted in their sleep, focus, or mood. An evaluation can clarify whether there is a treatable condition or whether the issue is load, and both answers are useful.
More is covered on the FAQ page, and you can reach the practice directly through the contact page.
If you have been telling yourself you will deal with this after the next deadline, consider that the next deadline is always there. One 60-minute evaluation is enough to find out what you are actually dealing with. Book online in a few minutes, or call or text to talk it through first. Most major insurance accepted, no referral needed.
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