Fairfax Station moves at a quieter pace, but the pressures its families carry are anything but quiet. Alice Tran, PMHNP-BC offers psychiatric care in English and Tiếng Việt, in person in Fairfax or by secure video.
Book an Appointment →Fairfax Station is one of the county's most peaceful corners: wooded lots, long driveways, and families who chose space and quiet on purpose. But long commutes, demanding careers, and the work of holding households together follow people home, and anxiety, depression, ADHD, and burnout do not care how serene the street looks.
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 fifteen-minute drive from Fairfax Station, 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.
Speak the language you think in. Full psychiatric care is available in Vietnamese for you and your family. Learn more →
From high-functioning anxiety hidden behind achievement to depression that makes every day heavier, treatment is tailored to how it actually shows up in your life.
Being the family translator, the achiever, or the peacemaker is heavy work. That weight is taken seriously in evaluation and treatment.
Bright, capable, and constantly behind: that pattern deserves a proper ADHD evaluation, not another productivity app.
Fairfax Station skews toward established households in the middle of life, and that stage carries a particular load. Your children still need you, sometimes more than you expected as they hit their late teens and twenties. Your parents are beginning to need you in ways they never have. And you are the one holding both, usually while still working.
There is a name for this, the sandwich generation, and there is a reason it keeps coming up in clinical settings. Caregiver stress is a genuine risk factor for depression and anxiety, and it is unusually well hidden, because the people carrying it are competent and busy and have no habit of asking for anything.
It also arrives with grief that has nowhere to go. Watching a parent decline is a loss that unfolds over years without a moment to mark it. People describe feeling guilty for being exhausted, guilty for being resentful, and then guilty for feeling guilty. That loop is worth interrupting.
For many people at this stage the honest question is not whether life is hard, because obviously it is. It is whether what you are carrying has tipped into something treatable. That distinction is what an evaluation is for.
A recognized clinical concern rather than just a difficult season. Learn more →
Anticipatory loss while a parent is still living is real grief, and it rarely gets treated as such. Learn more →
Usually the earliest sign, and usually the thing people accept as inevitable. It is not. Learn more →
If your parents would be more comfortable in Vietnamese, they can be seen too. Learn more →
Yes. Visits are available fully in Vietnamese or English, whichever is more comfortable, with no interpreter involved.
If they are between 18 and 65, yes. Alice regularly cares for parents and elders in Vietnamese, with family included when helpful.
The practice is in-network with most major plans, including Medicare and Medicaid. See the Rates page for specifics and self-pay rates.
The Fairfax office at 3060 Williams Drive, Suite 300 is about a fifteen-minute drive from Fairfax Station, with free parking. Telehealth visits are also available anywhere in Virginia.
It is worth evaluating. Caregiver stress is a well documented risk factor for depression and anxiety, and the people carrying it tend to seek help last. The question is not whether your situation is hard, it is whether it has crossed into something that responds to treatment.
Adults up to 65 can be seen, and visits are available fully in Vietnamese if that is more comfortable for them, with no interpreter involved.
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 Fairfax Station 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.
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