Evaluations, medication management, and supportive therapy for adults 18 to 65, delivered by video so the appointment never becomes another errand.
Book an Appointment →Lyon Village sits between Clarendon and Courthouse without behaving like either of them. Single-family houses, tree cover that actually shades the sidewalk, a community house, and an unusual number of people who have owned the same address for thirty years. Residents can walk to a restaurant on Wilson Boulevard in eight minutes and then walk back to a street where the loudest thing at nine in the evening is a dog.
If you have been searching for a psychiatrist in Lyon Village, you have probably noticed how little there is to find inside the neighborhood itself. 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. She sees Lyon Village patients almost entirely by video. The physical office is at 3060 Williams Drive, Suite 300, Fairfax, VA 22031, in Merrifield, with free parking on site, and it is there if you want it rather than a place you have to go.
Lyon Village looks like the end of a long climb, and for many households it is. That does not mean it is restful. The reasons people here get in touch tend to be quiet, slow-building, and easy to explain away for years.
Getting in cost a great deal, and the payment now sets the floor under both careers. Leaving a job that is grinding you down stops feeling like a choice, which turns ordinary work stress into something that has nowhere to go.
Civic association, school volunteering, the block party, the listserv thread that needs a reply. Participation here is real and mostly good. It also stacks up on people who have never learned how to decline without a story attached.
Owners who arrived in the 1980s and families who arrived last spring live door to door with fairly little in common. Both groups describe a version of the same thing: knowing everyone by sight and almost nobody well.
Long-tenured residents planning to stay in a house that was built for a younger body. Decisions about driving, stairs, and independence bring anxiety and grief that rarely get named as anything other than practical worry.
Managing a parent's appointments in one state and a teenager's schedule in this one. The person in the middle is usually competent, exhausted, and convinced that being competent means they are fine.
Adults who ran on intelligence and adrenaline until the job title got senior enough that neither one was sufficient. What reads as sloppiness or avoidance is frequently untreated attention deficit hyperactivity disorder showing up late.
Intake paperwork arrives before the appointment so the hour itself is spent talking. Answer what you can and leave the rest blank. Nothing on the form is graded, and no one is checking whether you filled it out impressively. Insurance is verified in advance, so what you owe is known before the visit rather than discovered on a statement three weeks later.
You join by clicking a link a few minutes early and confirming that your camera and microphone work. Alice usually opens with some version of why now, because the moment a person finally books an appointment is often more informative than the symptom list. From there the conversation covers what you are experiencing, when it started, what was happening in your life then, your medical history, family history, sleep, alcohol and caffeine, and everything you currently take, including over-the-counter and herbal products. Then she tells you what she is thinking and why, in plain language, and the two of you build the plan together. Most people book a first follow-up two to four weeks later. A general walkthrough is on the first appointment checklist.
Psychiatric evaluation. Sixty minutes, and the length is the point. An accurate picture of an adult who has been managing something for a decade cannot be assembled in fifteen minutes, and a lot of Lyon Village patients arrive carrying a diagnosis that someone handed them quickly during a busy stretch of their twenties. Part of the evaluation is checking whether that label still describes what is actually happening, and whether anything medical has been mistaken for something psychiatric.
Medication management. When medication is a reasonable option, the reasoning comes before the prescription: what it is expected to do, roughly how long that takes, what to watch for in the first two weeks, and what happens if it turns out to be a poor fit. Dosing follows your actual response rather than a fixed schedule. Prescriptions go to whatever pharmacy is easiest, which for this neighborhood is usually somewhere along Wilson Boulevard or Lee Highway. Controlled medications, including stimulants for adult ADHD, are handled under Virginia requirements, which can mean an in-person appointment in Fairfax. The medication management page covers how that works in more detail.
Supportive therapy. Follow-ups run 30 or 45 minutes and are not simply a refill with a symptom count attached. There is time to work on the thing underneath: the committee you cannot resign from, the argument that repeats every few months, the decision about a parent's living situation that has been sitting unmade since spring. When what you need is structured longer-term therapy, such as trauma processing or a full course of cognitive behavioral therapy, Alice will say so plainly and help you find a therapist, and she is glad to coordinate with clinicians you already see. More is on the services page.
This is adult psychiatry for ages 18 to 65, and the emphasis stays on how a condition behaves inside your particular week rather than how it reads on a checklist.
Attention. ADHD in adults, including people diagnosed as children who stopped treatment before college, and people assessed for the first time in their forties after watching a child get evaluated. The adult ADHD self-check is free, and ADHD treatment in Virginia explains what follows a diagnosis.
Anxiety, panic, and OCD. Anxiety that presents as a body that will not settle, panic attacks that feel cardiac, and obsessive compulsive patterns that have quietly organized a household around them. The GAD-7 screener and the anxiety treatment page are both open to read first.
Mood. Depression, including the version that never misses a deadline and shows up at the block party, plus bipolar disorder and grief that has outlasted what the people around you expected. See the PHQ-9 or depression treatment in Virginia.
Trauma, sleep, and reproductive mental health. PTSD and trauma responses, including events that long predate your move to Arlington, along with insomnia, burnout that has crossed from tired into clinical, and postpartum and perinatal mood changes.
Visits are by video, never by telephone. That is a considered rule rather than a technical limit, because a meaningful share of what a psychiatric provider needs to observe is visible rather than audible. You join at doxy.me/alicetran, which opens in a browser with nothing to download and no account to create. If the connection drops, you rejoin the same link, and the office calls to help you get back in so the visit finishes on video.
Telehealth covers all of Virginia, and you need to be physically inside the state during the appointment. In-person visits are available in Fairfax at 3060 Williams Drive, Suite 300, with free on-site parking, roughly 20 to 30 minutes from Lyon Village depending on when you leave. Some patients do the evaluation in the room and everything after that by video. More on how regional virtual care works is on the Northern Virginia telehealth page.
You see Alice each time. Not a rotating panel and not whoever the system assigns. In psychiatry the useful information accumulates: how you responded to a dose change in February is what makes the September decision straightforward instead of a guess. Continuity is the part that most large systems cannot promise and this practice can.
The dual certification matters more than it sounds. Alice is board certified in psychiatric mental health and in family practice, and she trained under psychiatrist Dr. Errol Segall, MD, who brings more than 50 years of clinical experience. The family practice background means thyroid function, anemia, sleep apnea, perimenopause, and medication interactions get considered rather than skipped over, which is exactly what you want when the presenting complaint is fatigue, brain fog, or a mood change that arrived without an obvious cause.
Prices are published and flat. 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, with no membership and no add-on fees. Aetna, Anthem, Cigna, Medicare, and Medicaid are accepted, and coverage is verified before your first appointment. Details are on the rates page, and there is more about Alice if you want to know who you would be talking to. Care is available fully in English or fully in Tiếng Việt with no interpreter.
Lyon Village is bracketed by two very different commercial districts, and patients arrive from both. Alice also sees adults in Clarendon, Courthouse, Ballston, Rosslyn, and across Arlington generally, along with Falls Church and Fairfax. Telehealth reaches anywhere in Virginia. If you want depth on one topic rather than one place, ADHD treatment in Arlington and anxiety treatment in Arlington go further.
No. There is no office in Lyon Village, in Clarendon, or anywhere in Arlington. The practice is at 3060 Williams Drive, Suite 300, Fairfax, VA 22031, in the Merrifield area, with free on-site parking. Lyon Village is a community Alice serves, and for almost everyone here that happens by video.
Nothing about your care is shared with anyone in your neighborhood. There is also no local waiting room to be recognized in, because there is no local office. Your visit happens from wherever you choose, and records are released only with your written permission or where the law requires it.
Yes. Financial pressure is not off topic. When a household cannot afford for one earner to slow down, that changes what treatment options are realistic, how much risk you can take with a job, and how much recovery time you actually have. Alice would rather plan around the real constraint than a hypothetical one.
It can. Chronic overcommitment is usually a symptom of something rather than a scheduling accident, whether that is anxiety about disappointing people, difficulty tolerating conflict, or attention problems that make it hard to gauge how much time anything takes. Follow-ups leave room to work on that directly.
Alice is a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner, board certified in both psychiatric mental health and family practice, and licensed in Virginia. In Virginia a PMHNP evaluates, diagnoses, and prescribes, including psychiatric medication. She trained under psychiatrist Dr. Errol Segall, MD, who has more than 50 years of clinical experience. The main difference patients notice is appointment length rather than scope.
You are welcome to come and find out. An evaluation is not a commitment to medication or to a diagnosis. Sometimes the honest conclusion of a first visit is that what you are dealing with is a situation rather than an illness, and that is a useful thing to hear from someone whose job is to tell the difference.
No. Visits are by video, never by telephone, and there is no phone-only option. Facial expression, movement, and eye contact carry information that a psychiatric provider needs, so the visit happens on camera in a private space. If the video drops, you rejoin the same link, and the office will call to help you reconnect so the appointment finishes on video.
No. Restarting is common and it is not a relapse of character. What matters clinically is the record you already have: what you took, what dose, what helped, what side effects showed up, and what your life looked like at the time. That history usually shortens the road considerably the second time.
Yes, ask to be added when you book. New patients are typically seen within one to two weeks. Regular hours are Monday through Thursday, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM Eastern, and evening or weekend times may be available on request. Call or text (703) 791-9099 to ask.
It means the practice does not monitor phone, text, or email around the clock, and it is not set up to respond in the moment to someone in danger. If you are thinking about harming yourself or you do not feel safe, call or text 988, or go to the nearest emergency department. Scheduled care is a separate thing from emergency care.
Yes. Alice provides care fully in English or fully in Tiếng Việt with no interpreter involved, and you can move between the two during a sentence if that is how you think. Nothing has to be translated by a family member.
Broader questions are answered on the FAQ page.
Booking online takes a couple of minutes. If you would rather ask something before committing, call or text (703) 791-9099, or email info@alicetrannp.com. New patients are usually seen within one to two weeks, no referral is required, and your coverage is verified before the first appointment. If this is an emergency, call or text 988 instead.
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