Evaluations, medication management, and supportive therapy for adults, by video, for people who moved here recently and have not built a bench yet.
Book an Appointment →Almost everything in Potomac Yard is new. The Metro station is new. The Virginia Tech Innovation Campus is new. The apartment building you live in was probably finished in the last few years, and so was the one across the street. That newness is what makes the place appealing, and it is also why a lot of residents describe the same odd feeling: everything works, nothing is familiar, and there is nobody nearby who knew you before you got here.
Anh "Alice" Tran, PMHNP-BC, FNP-BC, is a dual board-certified psychiatric mental health and family nurse practitioner licensed in Virginia. She treats adults 18 to 65. Potomac Yard patients are seen by video, which suits a population that is still figuring out where anything is. The office, for anyone who wants an in-person appointment, is at 3060 Williams Drive, Suite 300, Fairfax, VA 22031, in Merrifield, with free parking on site.
A neighborhood filled almost entirely with recent arrivals produces stressors that older communities do not. These are the ones that come up repeatedly.
You took the job, signed the lease, and unpacked. What did not come in the truck was a friend who notices when you go quiet. Moving is a well-documented risk period for mood and anxiety symptoms, and it rarely announces itself as one.
People taking coursework at the Innovation Campus while working full time. The workload is manageable until it is not, and what breaks first is usually sleep, then concentration, then everything downstream of both.
Growth in this corridor has been fast, and fast growth is not a straight line. Reorganizations, hiring pauses, and teams that reshuffle create a background hum of uncertainty in people whose visas, mortgages, or families depend on the job.
Partners in other cities, parents in other countries, and a group chat that is not the same as somebody in the building. Loneliness in a full apartment tower is a specific experience, and it is not solved by more neighbors.
Systems that worked in a smaller role stop working when the scope widens. A lot of adults get to their first ADHD evaluation not because anything changed inside them but because the demands finally exceeded the workarounds.
A prescriber you liked, three time zones away, who can no longer legally see you. Refills run out, and people go months on nothing while they try to figure out where to restart. That gap is worth closing quickly.
Video is the main route, and in a neighborhood where most people are still learning the local geography it is also the least demanding one. Visits are secure and take place at doxy.me/alicetran, which opens in a browser with nothing to install. Appointments are by video only, never by telephone. If the connection fails, you rejoin the same link and the office calls to help you get back on so the visit finishes properly. You do need to be physically in Virginia during the appointment, since Alice is licensed here.
If you would rather sit in a room with someone, in-person appointments happen in Fairfax at 3060 Williams Drive, Suite 300, about half an hour out with free parking. Some patients come in once for the evaluation and do everything after that by video. The Northern Virginia telehealth page covers the details.
Psychiatric evaluation. A full 60 minutes for the first appointment. That time goes toward the actual sequence: when things changed, what was happening around you, what you have already tried and what each attempt did, family history, medical history, sleep, caffeine, alcohol, and what an ordinary weekday feels like from the inside. For recent arrivals this matters, because the story usually starts somewhere else, and a rushed appointment tends to lose everything that happened before the move.
Medication management. If medication is worth trying, you get the reasoning first: the target, the realistic timeline, the side effects worth watching for in the opening weeks, and what happens if it turns out to be the wrong choice. Changes follow your response rather than a protocol. Prescriptions go to whichever pharmacy you actually pass. Controlled medications, including stimulants for ADHD, follow Virginia requirements, and that can mean an in-person appointment in Fairfax at some point.
Supportive therapy. Follow-up appointments are conversations, not checklists. That can mean deciding whether to stay in a job that is not fitting, working out how to build a social life from scratch in your thirties, or protecting sleep through a hard quarter. If what you need is structured longer-term therapy, trauma processing or a full CBT course for instance, Alice will say that plainly and help you find a therapist, and she is happy to coordinate with one you already see. More on the services page.
Adult psychiatry, weighted toward how a condition behaves in a life that has recently been rearranged.
Adjustment, anxiety, and panic. Generalized anxiety, panic attacks, and the physical symptoms that send people to urgent care sure that something is wrong with their heart. If you want a starting vocabulary, the GAD-7 screener takes a couple of minutes. Statewide detail is on the anxiety treatment page.
Depression and bipolar disorder. Depression that still makes every standup, along with bipolar disorder and grief that traveled here with you. The PHQ-9 is free, and the depression treatment page goes further.
ADHD. Adult ADHD, including first evaluations in people who never suspected it until a bigger role exposed it. Try the adult ADHD self-check or read the ADHD treatment page.
Trauma, OCD, burnout, and sleep. PTSD and trauma responses that predate this address entirely, obsessive compulsive patterns, occupational burnout that has become clinical, and insomnia that no longer responds to habit changes.
Continuity. You see Alice at every appointment, which matters more than it sounds when you have just left a system where you saw whoever was available. In psychiatry the useful information stacks up over time, and a plan built from six months of your own history beats a plan built from a fifteen minute snapshot.
Alice trained under psychiatrist Dr. Errol Segall, MD, whose clinical experience runs past 50 years, and she holds dual board certification in psychiatric mental health and family practice. The family practice side means thyroid function, vitamin deficiencies, sleep apnea, and interactions with anything else you take get looked at instead of assumed away. When the presenting complaint is fatigue or brain fog, that is not a small distinction.
Costs are published and flat. Self-pay is $400 for the 60 minute initial evaluation, $200 for a 30 minute follow-up, and $250 for a 45 minute follow-up, with no membership fees and nothing hidden. Aetna, Anthem, Cigna, Medicare, and Medicaid are accepted, verified before your first appointment. See the rates page, or read about Alice.
Appointments can be conducted fully in English or fully in Tiếng Việt without an interpreter.
Intake forms arrive by email in advance so the appointment is not consumed by data entry. Answer what you can. Blanks are fine, and nothing here is a test. Coverage gets verified ahead of time so the cost is known rather than discovered later.
Open doxy.me/alicetran a few minutes before the hour. No download, no account. The first stretch is conversation. Alice tends to open with why now, since the specific thing that pushed you to book is often the most useful piece of information in the room. She then works through symptoms, history, medical background, and current medications, and tells you what she is thinking and the reasoning behind it. You leave with a plan you agreed to, and most people schedule a first follow-up two to four weeks out.
Potomac Yard sits on a seam, so patients come from both directions. Alice sees adults in Del Ray, Old Town Alexandria, and the rest of Alexandria, as well as Crystal City, Pentagon City, Arlington, Springfield, and Fairfax. Video visits are available anywhere in Virginia.
No. The weeks after a move are one of the most common times for symptoms to surface, because the routines and relationships that were quietly holding things together are suddenly gone. Waiting until you feel established enough to deserve an appointment usually just means waiting longer than you needed to.
Yes, provided you are 18 to 65 and physically in Virginia during the visit. Graduate students often come in for attention difficulties that only became visible under a heavier research load, for sleep that has inverted, or for anxiety that spikes around deadlines and funding decisions.
Not within Virginia. Alice is licensed statewide, so a move to Richmond, Charlottesville, or anywhere else in the Commonwealth does not interrupt care. Video visits continue exactly as before. A move out of state is different, because she can only see patients who are physically in Virginia at the time of the appointment.
Yes, and it helps. Sign a release and we will request them, or simply bring a medication list with doses and rough dates. Even an imperfect list of what you have tried and how each one went saves a great deal of guesswork. Alice will still do her own evaluation rather than inheriting a diagnosis unexamined.
Not at all, and it is more common than people assume. Starting from zero is in some ways simpler, because there is no history of partial responses to untangle. It also means the explanation of what a medication does and does not do gets more time in your first appointment.
Yes. No referral is required and no primary care relationship is needed to be seen. If routine labs would be useful, Alice will tell you what to ask for and where to have them drawn. She can also point you toward establishing primary care once you are settled.
No. You have to be physically in Virginia during the appointment. That is a licensing requirement, not a preference. Patients who travel frequently usually schedule around trips, and the practice will work with your calendar to place appointments in weeks when you are home.
You rejoin the same link at doxy.me/alicetran, and the office will call you to help sort out the connection so the visit can be finished on video. Appointments are always by video, never by telephone, so a dropped connection means reconnecting rather than switching to a phone call.
The 60 minute initial evaluation is $400 self-pay. Follow-ups are $200 for 30 minutes or $250 for 45 minutes. There are no memberships and no hidden fees. If you would rather use insurance, Aetna, Anthem, Cigna, Medicare, and Medicaid are accepted and coverage is verified before your first visit.
Yes. There are free self-check tools on this site for adult ADHD, anxiety, and depression. They are not diagnostic, but they give you vocabulary for the appointment and a rough sense of how much a given pattern is affecting you. Plenty of people bring their results to the first visit.
Both evaluate, diagnose, and prescribe, including controlled medications, under different licenses and training paths. Alice is a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner who is also board-certified in family practice, and she trained under psychiatrist Dr. Errol Segall, MD, who has more than 50 years of clinical experience. If your case would be better served by a psychiatrist, she will say so.
Other questions are answered on the FAQ page.
Booking takes a couple of minutes online, or call or text (703) 791-9099 to ask something first. New patients are generally seen within one to two weeks, no referral is needed, and coverage is verified in advance. Email info@alicetrannp.com if that is easier. This practice is not a crisis service; if you need help immediately, call or text 988.
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