Psychiatric evaluations, medication management, and supportive therapy for adults 18 to 65, by secure video anywhere in Virginia.
Book an Appointment →National Landing is an umbrella that covers Crystal City, Pentagon City, and Potomac Yard, three neighborhoods that had their own names and their own histories long before anyone printed the new one on a map. If you were relocated here by an employer, that name may be the only one you know, which produces the strange experience of telling a colleague where you live and getting a blank look, then learning that the person who has been here twenty years calls the same eight blocks something else entirely.
That disorientation is not trivial. It sits on top of a much larger relocation wave driven by Amazon HQ2, the Virginia Tech Innovation Campus, and the employers that followed both. Anh "Alice" Tran, PMHNP-BC, FNP-BC, is a dual board-certified psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner and family nurse practitioner, licensed in Virginia, treating adults 18 to 65. For National Landing the honest answer is that care runs by secure video: the office is in Fairfax, and video is what actually fits.
A very large share of the people living in this district arrived recently, and the reasons they call reflect that more than anything about the buildings.
A stable medication and a provider who knew the history, both left behind in another state. Treatment lapses during a relocation more often than people expect, and symptoms tend to come back on their own schedule rather than yours.
Not knowing the pharmacy, the grocery store, or which neighborhood you technically live in. Small unknowns stack up, and for people already prone to anxiety, a hundred tiny decisions a day is more depleting than one large one.
One person moved for a role. The other moved for the relationship and now has no job, no colleagues, and no reason to leave the apartment. That imbalance produces a very specific kind of low mood and it is frequently mistaken for ingratitude.
When thousands of people start in the same district within a few years, everyone is new at once. It looks social from outside. From inside, it often means politeness without depth and no one to call at nine at night.
Cranes, closed sidewalks, and a skyline that changes quarterly. Temporary housing and a lease that ends soon make it hard to feel settled, and unsettledness has a way of reading as restlessness or irritability.
A relocation package usually comes with expectations attached. Wanting to prove the move was justified pushes people to work past the point of usefulness, and burnout arrives faster when there is no local life to balance it.
Psychiatric evaluation. Sixty minutes for the first appointment. For people who have just moved, a good portion of that hour goes to reconstructing what came before: which medications you have taken, at what doses, what helped, what was stopped and why, and what a previous clinician concluded. That reconstruction is the difference between resuming treatment sensibly and starting over blind. The rest covers current symptoms, sleep, medical history, family history, and what an ordinary day looks like now.
Medication management. When medication is appropriate, the reasoning comes first: what it should do, how long that takes, what to watch for early on, and what happens if it does not suit you. Prescriptions go to whichever pharmacy you have settled on, which for recent arrivals is often a decision made the same week. The medication management page explains the process. Controlled medications, including stimulants for ADHD, follow Virginia requirements, which can mean an in-person visit at the Fairfax office.
Supportive therapy. Follow-ups are conversations, not a checklist and a refill. In this district that often means deciding whether to stay past the two year mark, building a life that is not entirely made of work, or handling a relationship strained by a move only one of you wanted. Follow-ups run 30 or 45 minutes. When structured longer-term therapy is what you need, Alice will say so plainly and help you find a therapist. See the services page.
Intake forms are sent ahead so the hour is spent talking. Fill in what you can, including anything you remember about past medications even if the details are fuzzy. Coverage is verified before the visit, which is especially useful in the middle of a job change when nobody is certain which plan is active.
Open doxy.me/alicetran a few minutes early in any browser. Nothing installs and no account is created. Alice usually starts by asking why now, because with recent arrivals the answer is often the whole story: a prescription ran out, a partner said something, or a bad month finally outlasted the excuse that it was just the move. From there the conversation moves through symptoms, history, medical background, and current medications, and she explains her thinking before a plan is set. Most people book a first follow-up two to four weeks out.
Mood. Depression, including the version that keeps performing at a new job while everything outside work quietly empties out. Bipolar disorder and grief are treated as well, and grief here often means grief for a place and a set of people rather than a death. See the PHQ-9 and depression treatment.
Anxiety, panic, and OCD. Generalized anxiety, panic attacks, and obsessive compulsive patterns. The GAD-7 gives you language for it, and anxiety treatment covers what can be done.
Attention. Adult ADHD, including people whose systems worked in a familiar city and collapsed once every routine had to be rebuilt from scratch. The adult ADHD self-check and ADHD treatment pages are open to anyone.
Trauma, sleep, and burnout. PTSD and trauma responses, including trauma from long before the relocation, insomnia in a new apartment on a new schedule, burnout, and postpartum and perinatal mood changes for families who arrived with small children.
Continuity is the main thing. You see Alice at every appointment, which matters most to people who have just lost a clinician they had built years of history with. Rebuilding that once is reasonable. Rebuilding it every visit is not.
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. The family practice side matters during a move, because relocations disrupt primary care too, and fatigue or fog can come from thyroid problems, anemia, or sleep apnea as easily as from mood. Those possibilities get considered rather than skipped.
Rates are published rather than explained after the fact: $400 for the initial 60 minute visit, $200 for a 30 minute follow-up, $250 for a 45 minute follow-up, no memberships and no hidden fees. Aetna, Anthem, Cigna, Medicare, and Medicaid are accepted. The rates page is current, and you can read about Alice before deciding.
Visits are available fully in English or fully in Tiếng Việt with no interpreter present, which is worth knowing if the language you think in is not the language you work in. See psychiatric care in Vietnamese.
There is no point pretending otherwise. The office at 3060 Williams Drive, Suite 300, Fairfax, VA 22031 is a real drive from National Landing, and for a 30 minute follow-up that math does not work for most people. Video is the default, and it is genuinely equivalent care rather than a lesser version of it.
Visits happen by video, never by telephone, at doxy.me/alicetran. It opens in a browser with no app to install. If the connection drops, you rejoin the same link and continue, and the office will call to help you get back in so the appointment finishes on video. You must be physically in Virginia during each visit. In-person appointments in Fairfax remain available, with free on-site parking, for anyone who wants one or when a controlled medication requires it. More on the Northern Virginia telehealth page.
If you would rather read about your specific neighborhood, there are separate pages for Crystal City and Pentagon City. Alice also sees adults across Arlington, including the Columbia Pike corridor, as well as Falls Church, East Falls Church, Fairfax, and Merrifield. Telehealth reaches anywhere in Virginia.
It can continue here, with a new evaluation rather than a straight handoff. Your previous clinician cannot keep prescribing once you live in Virginia unless they are licensed here. Bring what you know about your medications and doses, and the first visit builds on that instead of starting from zero.
New patients are typically seen within one to two weeks, and no referral is needed. Say when you book that you have a medication running out, and call or text (703) 791-9099 so the office knows. Nothing can be prescribed before an evaluation, so the earlier you start the process, the smaller the gap.
Not exactly. National Landing is an umbrella name covering Crystal City, Pentagon City, and Potomac Yard, which are three neighborhoods with their own histories that existed long before the district name did. For care it makes no difference. There are separate pages for Crystal City and Pentagon City if one of those describes your block better.
Yes. Moving for someone else's career means losing your work, your routine, and your own set of people all at once while the person you moved with keeps theirs. That combination is one of the more reliable ways a stable person ends up depressed, and it is treatable.
Aetna, Anthem, Cigna, Medicare, and Medicaid. Coverage is verified before your first appointment, which matters during a job change when nobody is quite sure what is active yet. Self-pay is published as well: $400 for the 60 minute evaluation, $200 for a 30 minute follow-up, $250 for a 45 minute follow-up.
Your address is on file for records and billing, but what matters clinically is that you are physically inside Virginia when each visit happens. Moving from one building to another, or from Potomac Yard to Pentagon City, changes nothing about your care.
No, that one has to be rescheduled. Virginia licensure requires you to be in Virginia during the visit, and being a Virginia resident is not the same thing as being in Virginia that afternoon. Move the appointment to a week when you are home.
Yes, for adults 18 to 65. Graduate students living in the district come in for attention concerns, sleep that has fallen apart, and anxiety that spikes around coursework, which is a familiar set of problems in a program built around demanding timelines.
Because shared newness is not the same as connection. When an entire workforce relocates at once, everyone is polite, busy, and equally unmoored, and nobody has the long history that makes a hard week easier to say out loud. It is a common reason people book a first appointment within a year of arriving.
Yes, with a signed release. Old notes, medication lists, and any past testing all make the evaluation more accurate. If those records are slow to arrive, the first visit still happens on schedule and the records get added to the picture when they come in.
Some do, but honestly most do not. The office is at 3060 Williams Drive, Suite 300, Fairfax, VA 22031, in the Merrifield area, and that is a real drive from this side of the county. Video is the practical default here, with in-person visits reserved for when a controlled medication or a particular preference calls for it.
Call or text 988, which reaches the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline from anywhere in the country, or go to the nearest emergency department. This practice is not a crisis service and does not monitor messages after hours.
More general questions are answered on the FAQ page.
Book online in a couple of minutes, or call or text (703) 791-9099 if you would rather ask a question first. New patients are typically seen within one to two weeks, no referral needed, and coverage is verified before your first visit. Email info@alicetrannp.com any time. In an emergency, call or text 988.
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