Psychiatric evaluations, medication management, and supportive therapy for adults 18 to 65, in person in Fairfax or by secure video from home.
Book an Appointment →Pimmit Hills was built quickly after the war as ordinary housing for ordinary budgets, small single-story homes on flat lots, and for decades that is exactly what it stayed. Now it sits wedged between Tysons and Falls Church, and the lots underneath those houses are worth more than the houses. Rebuilds go up between two originals. Long-time owners watch the block change one teardown at a time, while new buyers arrive carrying mortgages that require the kind of hours the neighborhood was never designed around.
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. Pimmit Hills is one of the closest neighborhoods to the office at 3060 Williams Drive, Suite 300, Fairfax, VA 22031, roughly ten to fifteen minutes away in Merrifield with free parking on site, so in-person care here is a practical option and not a technicality. Secure video visits are available too.
The pressures here come from two directions at once, and people on opposite ends of the same street often describe completely different versions of the same neighborhood.
Owning the home outright and still feeling squeezed by taxes, insurance, and repairs on a structure past sixty. There is a particular strain in sitting on an asset you cannot spend while the monthly numbers keep climbing.
New buyers stretched to get in often work the kind of schedule that leaves nothing for anything else. The house was supposed to be the reward. Instead it becomes the reason there is no time to enjoy it.
Foundation work, framing crews, and dumpsters at seven in the morning for months. Persistent noise and disruption cut into sleep, and short sleep sharpens every other symptom in the list.
Neighbors who watched your kids grow up sell and move south. The people who replace them commute out early and back late. Losing an informal support network is a real loss, even when nothing dramatic happened.
Tysons on one side, older Falls Church on the other, and Pimmit Hills in the middle holding both. Working in the trades or in service jobs while living beside people who earn several times as much makes comparison unavoidable.
Rents in this part of the county push grown children home again, sometimes with children of their own. Multigenerational living can work well and still crowd out any hour that belongs to one person alone.
Distance is the one thing Pimmit Hills does not have to solve. The Fairfax office is a short drive down Route 7 or Gallows Road, with a parking lot instead of a garage hunt. Many patients here do the 60 minute evaluation in person, which some people find easier for a first conversation, then choose visit by visit after that.
Video visits are by video only, never telephone. You join at doxy.me/alicetran, which opens in a browser on a phone or laptop with nothing to install and no account to make. If the picture drops, you rejoin the same link and the visit continues from where it stopped, and the office will call to help you reconnect so the appointment finishes on video. Telehealth reaches all of Virginia, and you need to be physically in the state during the appointment. The Northern Virginia telehealth page has more.
Psychiatric evaluation. Sixty minutes, which is enough to hear how things actually unfolded instead of a compressed version. When it started, what else was happening, what has been tried, what helped and for how long, what runs in your family, how you sleep, what you use to get through the afternoon, and what a normal weekday feels like from inside your own head. Nothing in the hour is a test, and there is no correct way to describe any of it.
Medication management. If medication is a reasonable step, it gets explained before it gets prescribed: what it is meant to do, roughly how long that takes, what to watch for in the first two weeks, and what happens if the fit is wrong. Adjustments follow your response rather than a protocol. Prescriptions go to whichever pharmacy you already use. Controlled medications, including stimulants for ADHD, follow Virginia requirements, and being ten minutes from the office makes any in-person requirement easy to meet. See medication management.
Supportive therapy. Every follow-up has room for a real conversation rather than a symptom count and a refill. That might be working through a decision about the house, naming a resentment that has been building for a year, or figuring out how to hold a job and a household at the same time. Follow-ups are 30 or 45 minutes. If your situation calls for structured, longer-term therapy, Alice will tell you and help you find a therapist. The services page has more detail.
Anxiety, panic, and OCD. Anxiety that runs in the background all day, panic attacks that arrive without warning, and obsessive compulsive patterns. The GAD-7 screener is free, and anxiety treatment walks through the options.
Depression and bipolar disorder. Depression, including the kind that still mows the lawn and shows up to work, along with bipolar disorder and grief that has stayed longer than expected. See the PHQ-9 and depression treatment.
Attention. Adult ADHD, including people who were never assessed and got by on effort until a job, a mortgage, or a family made effort insufficient. The adult ADHD self-check and ADHD treatment pages are both open.
Trauma, sleep, and burnout. PTSD and trauma responses, insomnia, burnout that has moved past ordinary tiredness, and postpartum and perinatal mood changes for the younger families now moving in.
Paperwork comes to you ahead of time so the appointment is not spent filling in boxes. Do what you can with it. Coverage is checked in advance so cost is known before you walk in or log on.
In person, you park in the lot and come up to Suite 300. By video, open the link a few minutes early. The opening stretch is conversation, and Alice usually asks what made this the week you decided to call, since the timing is often the most useful detail available. She then works through symptoms, history, medical background, and everything you currently take, including anything over the counter. Before any plan exists she explains what she is thinking and why, in plain language, so you can question it while it is still being built. Most people schedule a first follow-up two to four weeks later.
Alice is the person you see every time. There is no rotating panel and no starting over with someone new who has read a summary. In psychiatry, the thing that makes the next decision a good one is usually the memory of the last three.
The training behind that is worth knowing. 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. That second certification means thyroid function, anemia, sleep apnea, and interactions with blood pressure or diabetes medication are considered rather than assumed to be someone else's department, which matters for adults carrying a longer medical history.
Pricing is published and flat, at $400 for the 60 minute initial visit and $200 or $250 for follow-ups depending on length. No memberships and no fees that appear later. Aetna, Anthem, Cigna, Medicare, and Medicaid are accepted and verified in advance. The rates page stays current, and there is background about Alice if you want to know who you would be talking to.
Appointments can be held fully in English or fully in Tiếng Việt with no interpreter present. Eden Center in nearby Falls Church anchors the Vietnamese community across this part of the region, and care in Vietnamese is offered here as a normal option rather than a special arrangement.
Pimmit Hills borders several places that share its roads and its schools. Alice also sees adults in Tysons, Tysons Corner, Falls Church, West Falls Church, East Falls Church, McLean, Vienna, Merrifield, and Fairfax. Telehealth is available across Virginia.
Usually, since the Fairfax office is only about ten to fifteen minutes from Pimmit Hills at 3060 Williams Drive, Suite 300, in the Merrifield area with free parking. Call or text (703) 791-9099 and the office will tell you what is open. Some patients keep a standing preference for video and come in only when something significant is shifting.
The self-pay rates are $400 for the 60 minute evaluation, $200 for a 30 minute follow-up, and $250 for a 45 minute follow-up, with no membership and nothing added later. If you have Aetna, Anthem, Cigna, Medicare, or Medicaid, that is usually the cheaper route, and coverage is verified before your first appointment so nothing arrives as a surprise.
It can be. Losing the informal network you relied on is a genuine change in circumstances, not a complaint about taste in architecture. When someone describes feeling like a stranger on a block they have lived on for twenty years, that is usually worth taking seriously rather than laughing off.
Yes. The link at doxy.me/alicetran opens in a phone browser with nothing to install. A parked truck or car is one of the most common places patients take appointments. You need to be parked and stationary, in a place with reasonable signal, and physically inside Virginia.
Not necessarily. People are often much better at hiding strain than they realize, and the person living with you may be reading your competence rather than your experience. What you notice from the inside counts as information. The evaluation is designed to sort out how much of it is a diagnosable condition and how much is a hard season.
Only if you want that and sign a release. Some patients like their primary care office kept in the loop, especially when other medications are involved, and others prefer the two kept entirely separate. It is your call and it can change later.
The worry itself is treatable even when the underlying situation is real. Anxiety that keeps you awake, hijacks your attention at work, and makes every decision feel urgent responds to treatment regardless of whether the finances resolve. Nobody here will tell you the stress is imaginary.
Yes, plainly. Alcohol changes sleep, mood, and how psychiatric medication behaves, so leaving it out makes the plan less accurate. It is asked about without judgment. If what you describe needs dedicated substance use treatment, Alice will say so and help you find the right program rather than managing it halfway.
The record is kept as required and stays confidential. There is no obligation to continue, no membership to cancel, and no penalty for deciding that this is not the right fit. If you come back in a year, the history is still there.
That is a legitimate reason to book. Coming off a psychiatric medication is usually done gradually and with a plan for what to watch for, and it is safer done with a clinician than alone. Alice will talk through why you want to stop, what taper makes sense, and what to do if symptoms return.
Call or text 988 to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, or go to the nearest emergency department. This practice does not provide crisis coverage and messages are not monitored around the clock.
More general questions are answered on the FAQ page.
Book online in a couple of minutes, or call or text (703) 791-9099 with a question first. New patients are usually seen within one to two weeks, no referral needed, and your coverage is verified before the first appointment. Email info@alicetrannp.com works as well. In an emergency, call or text 988.
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