Psychiatric evaluations, medication management, and supportive therapy for adults 18 to 65, delivered by secure video wherever you are in Virginia.
Book an Appointment →Huntington is where the Yellow Line runs out. Above the station the ground rises toward Fort Hunt and Groveton; below it sits the low section that has taken on water more than once over the years, a fact every longtime household here knows by heart. Around the station itself, newer towers have brought in people who arrived last spring and can name almost nobody on their floor. Two very different experiences of the same few blocks, both of them wired into a commute that eats an hour or two a day.
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. For Huntington the practical route is video: appointments happen at doxy.me/alicetran, and the office at 3060 Williams Drive, Suite 300, Fairfax, VA 22031 is available when you would rather be seen in the same room.
Some of what comes up here is common to any commuter neighborhood. Some of it is genuinely local, and it shows up in the appointment whether or not anyone plans to raise it.
For households that have dealt with water in the lower level, a forecast is not background information. It is a trigger. Checking radar at midnight, moving belongings up for a storm that never comes, and dreading a whole season is a recognizable anxiety pattern with a specific cause.
Damage claims, contractors, insurance calls, decisions about whether to stay. Grief attached to a house is real grief, and it is complicated by months of administrative work that leaves no room to feel anything.
People who moved in for the Metro access and then discovered that proximity is not community. Isolation on a high floor is a common quiet driver of low mood, especially in the first year.
Long days downtown, return trips that land after dark for half the year, and weekends spent recovering rather than living. When the exhaustion stops lifting on Sunday, it is worth looking at properly.
Long-tenured owners weighing whether the next decade here is sustainable, financially and otherwise. Chronic uncertainty about where you will live is corrosive in a way that a single decision, made either way, usually is not.
Hospital, hospitality, transit, and public safety schedules that rotate. Sleep is the first casualty, and once it goes, mood, focus, and patience follow in a predictable order.
Adult psychiatry across the usual range, with attention to what is maintaining a problem rather than only what started it.
Anxiety and panic. Generalized anxiety, including the kind organized around a specific recurring threat, plus panic disorder and OCD. The free GAD-7 screener is a good way to start putting it into words, and anxiety treatment in Virginia explains the options.
Trauma and stress responses. PTSD and trauma, whether from a single event, from military or first responder service, or from repeated losses that each seemed survivable on their own.
Mood. Depression, bipolar disorder, and grief. The PHQ-9 is available before you book, and depression treatment in Virginia covers what care looks like.
Attention and sleep. Adult ADHD, with the self-check as a starting point, and insomnia, which is frequently the first thing worth fixing.
Burnout and reproductive mental health. Burnout that has crossed into clinical territory, plus postpartum and perinatal mood changes.
Huntington sits far enough from Fairfax that driving out for a thirty minute follow-up costs most of an afternoon. Video removes that entirely. Appointments open at doxy.me/alicetran in any browser, with no app to install and no account to create, and they work from a condo, a house, a break room, or a parked car. You must be physically in Virginia while the visit is taking place.
Every appointment is by video rather than by telephone. If the connection drops, you rejoin the same link and the office calls to help you get back on, so the visit finishes on video rather than turning into a phone call. In-person appointments are still an option at 3060 Williams Drive, Suite 300 in Fairfax, roughly thirty to forty minutes out, with free parking. Some patients do the evaluation there once and take everything afterward from home. The Northern Virginia telehealth page has more.
Psychiatric evaluation. A full sixty minutes, which is long enough to get the order of events right. Alice asks when things changed, what else was going on that year, what you have tried and how it went, what runs in your family, how you sleep now compared with five years ago, and what a bad week actually looks like. She also takes a proper medical history. Her family nurse practitioner certification means thyroid function, anemia, sleep apnea, and interactions with existing prescriptions are examined rather than assumed irrelevant, which matters a great deal when the complaint is fatigue or fog. See the services page for the full picture.
Medication management. If medication is indicated, you hear what it should do, how long that usually takes, what to watch for in the first two weeks, and what happens if it does not suit you. Adjustments are made one at a time so the cause of any change stays clear. Prescriptions go electronically to whichever pharmacy you use, near the station or anywhere else. Controlled medications, including ADHD stimulants, follow Virginia's requirements, which can mean an in-person appointment at some point. More detail is at medication management in Virginia.
Supportive therapy. Follow-ups include real conversation rather than a symptom tally, which for people carrying a specific recurring stressor is often where the useful work happens. When structured, longer-term therapy is the right tool, such as trauma processing or intensive CBT, Alice will say so and help you find a therapist, and she coordinates with clinicians you already see.
Intake forms arrive beforehand so the hour is spent talking rather than writing. Fill in what you can and leave the rest. Insurance benefits are verified in advance, so the cost is known before the appointment rather than after it.
Click the link a few minutes early, check your camera and microphone, and settle somewhere private. The first stretch is simply conversation. Alice often begins with why now, because what tipped a long-standing problem into an appointment is usually informative. From there she works through symptoms, history, health, and current medications, then tells you what she is thinking and where she is still uncertain. You leave with a plan you helped decide on. Most people book a follow-up two to four weeks later.
One clinician, every visit. No rotating panel and no starting over with someone new because a schedule shifted. In psychiatry the history of what worked is the working document, and it only stays coherent when the same person is holding it.
Alice trained under psychiatrist Dr. Errol Segall, MD, who has over 50 years of clinical experience, and she holds dual board certification in psychiatric mental health and family practice.
Costs are published and flat. Self-pay is $400 for the sixty minute initial visit, $200 for a thirty minute follow-up, and $250 for a forty-five minute follow-up, with no memberships and no hidden fees. Aetna, Anthem, Cigna, Medicare, and Medicaid are accepted. See rates, or read about Alice. New patients are typically seen within one to two weeks and no referral is needed.
Care is available fully in English or fully in Tiếng Việt with no interpreter present. See Vietnamese psychiatric care.
Patients come from across the southern end of the county. Alice also sees adults throughout Alexandria, Kingstowne, Springfield, Annandale, Bailey's Crossroads, Burke, and Fairfax, with telehealth reaching anywhere in Virginia. If ADHD is the specific question, ADHD treatment in Virginia goes into detail.
It can be both, and that is the part worth untangling. Preparing for a storm is sensible. Lying awake refreshing a radar app at two in the morning, cancelling plans days ahead, and feeling your heart race at the sound of rain has moved past preparation into something treatable. The goal is not to talk you out of a real risk. It is to stop the alarm from running when nothing is happening.
Yes. Trauma is defined by what an event does to a nervous system, not by whether other people would rank it as serious enough. Repeated flooding involves loss, helplessness, financial strain, and the knowledge that it can happen again, which is a combination that produces hypervigilance, intrusive thoughts, and avoidance in exactly the way other traumatic events do.
Appointments run Monday through Thursday, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM Eastern, so a pre-commute slot is not usually possible. What works for most Huntington patients is a mid-morning or lunchtime visit from a private space at the office, or a day they are working from home. Evening and weekend times may be available on request.
It is about a thirty to forty minute drive depending on traffic, out to 3060 Williams Drive, Suite 300, Fairfax, VA 22031, with free parking on site. For most people at this distance video is the practical choice, which is why telehealth is the default here. In-person appointments remain available if you would rather do the first evaluation face to face.
It is a reasonable reason. Isolation is not a diagnosis on its own, but it reliably worsens depression and anxiety, and it often turns out to be the thing maintaining a low mood after the original trigger has passed. Naming it early is more useful than waiting until it has been eighteen months since you had a real conversation.
Yes. Medicare is accepted, along with Aetna, Anthem, Cigna, and Medicaid. Your benefits are verified before the first appointment so you know your share in advance. If you prefer not to use insurance, self-pay is $400 for the sixty minute initial visit, $200 for a thirty minute follow-up, and $250 for a forty-five minute follow-up.
They are one of the better options for shift workers, since a late morning video visit leaves the whole afternoon intact. Appointments are booked one at a time rather than as a standing weekly slot, so the time can move as your rota does. Call or text (703) 791-9099 if it is easier to sort out by conversation.
Yes, and plenty of people do. A parked car is often the only genuinely private space available. Park somewhere safe, keep the engine off, and use headphones. The visit opens at doxy.me/alicetran in a browser with nothing to install. You do need to be physically in Virginia during the appointment.
Rejoin the same doxy.me/alicetran link and you will be right back in. If you do not reappear, the office will call to help you get reconnected, and the appointment then finishes on video. Visits are conducted by video rather than by telephone, so a bad connection means troubleshooting and reconnecting rather than switching to a phone call.
That is a fair question to bring to the evaluation, and the answer is not always one or the other. Some presentations respond well to therapy alone, some clearly call for medication, and many do best with both. Alice will tell you what she thinks and why, including when her honest answer is that medication is not indicated and a therapist is the better next step.
No. This is an outpatient practice with limited hours and no overnight coverage. If you are in danger or having thoughts of harming yourself, call or text 988 for the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, or go to the nearest emergency department right away.
Other practice questions are covered on the FAQ page.
Book at alicetran.intakeq.com/booking, or call or text (703) 791-9099 if you would rather ask something first. New patients are usually seen within one to two weeks, no referral needed, and coverage is verified before your first visit. Email info@alicetrannp.com. In an emergency, call or text 988.
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