Alice Tran, PMHNP-BC treats adults in English or Tiếng Việt with no interpreter. Evaluations, medication management, and supportive therapy, in person nearby in Fairfax or by secure video anywhere in Virginia.
Book an Appointment →Few places in Fairfax County hold as many languages in as few square miles as the area around the Route 7 and Route 50 junction. Shops change hands and change flags. Households often hold three generations, sometimes two mortgages worth of effort, and frequently more than one work schedule under a single roof. Eden Center sits just up the road in Falls Church, and for many families it remains the anchor of Vietnamese life in the region.
What this community has not had much of is psychiatric care delivered in its own languages by the person actually treating you. Alice Tran, PMHNP-BC is a dual board-certified psychiatric mental health and family nurse practitioner licensed in Virginia. She sees adults 18 to 65 and conducts full visits in English or Tiếng Việt, herself, without an interpreter on the line. The office is at 3060 Williams Drive, Suite 300 in Fairfax, and video visits reach anywhere in the state.
Psychiatric care can sound mysterious if no one has ever walked you through it, so here is what it actually consists of at this practice.
One 60-minute visit to hear the whole story: what is troubling you, how long, how you sleep, what you have already tried, and what your family history looks like. It ends with an explanation you can understand.
If medication is part of the plan, it is chosen carefully and reviewed at every visit. Cost, side effects, and how a medication interacts with anything else you take are all part of the discussion.
Talking through the practical parts: sleep, work stress, family obligations, and the habits that keep symptoms in place. Included in visits rather than sold separately.
Not an interpreter reading a script. A provider who understands both the words and what is underneath them. Xem thêm →
There is a reason language is listed as a service rather than a footnote. Describing a panic attack, a memory that will not stay buried, or a mood that has drained out of your days is hard enough in your first language. Through a translator it becomes something else: shorter, flatter, less true. Nuance disappears, and psychiatric care runs on nuance. When the provider and the patient share a language, the history comes out complete, the medication instructions land the first time, and follow-up questions get asked instead of quietly skipped.
Adult ADHD evaluation is also available, and it is done thoroughly: a structured interview covering childhood and adult functioning, rating scales, and review of school or work history. See the ADHD page, the Virginia ADHD treatment guide, or the full services list.
Work in this corridor is often physical, hourly, and scheduled by someone else. Restaurant kitchens, salons, retail floors, home health, construction, hotel and cleaning crews, rideshare driving. Two jobs is not unusual. When your hours rotate and your sleep never settles into a pattern, mood and concentration follow the schedule down. People describe it as being tired in a way that sleep does not fix.
Then there is the arithmetic of a multigenerational household. An adult in their thirties may be interpreting for a parent, covering a mortgage, raising children, and sending money to relatives abroad, all while being told they are fortunate. Older family members carry histories of war, displacement, and resettlement that were never named as trauma because there was no time to name anything. Younger adults grow up translating documents at twelve and carrying an expectation that the family's sacrifice has to be repaid with achievement.
Those pressures do not always look like a psychiatric illness from the outside. They look like headaches, stomach problems, insomnia, irritability, or a person who has stopped answering the phone. Immigrant communities frequently experience distress in the body first, and that is not imagination, it is a well-recognized pattern. It is also treatable.
There is one more barrier worth saying out loud: shame. In many families, seeing a psychiatric provider is heard as an accusation that something is defective. It is not. Getting help for anxiety is no more shameful than getting help for high blood pressure, and that framing is often where the first conversation begins here.
Anxiety and depression are the most frequent reasons adults reach out, and both respond well to treatment. Anxiety may present as constant worry about money, immigration status, or a family member's health, along with a chest that will not loosen. Depression often arrives as heaviness and loss of interest rather than sadness, and many people describe simply going through the motions for years.
Post-traumatic stress deserves particular attention in a community shaped by migration. Nightmares, hypervigilance, and a startle response that never quieted down are treatable symptoms, not personality traits. Panic disorder often sends people to an emergency room first. Insomnia driven by rotating shifts is evaluated on its own terms. Bipolar disorder, OCD, burnout, perinatal and postpartum mood changes, and grief that has never had space to be spoken are all part of the work here.
You can read more on the anxiety and depression pages, or try the private GAD-7, PHQ-9, and adult ADHD screeners. They are starting points for a conversation, not diagnoses.
The office is roughly fifteen minutes from the junction, out Route 50 toward Merrifield, with free parking at the door instead of a crowded shopping-center lot. Many people prefer the first visit in person.
Telehealth carries the rest of the load. Visits are held at doxy.me/alicetran, which opens right in a phone browser with nothing to install and no account to make. That matters for anyone without a car, anyone whose only free window is between shifts, and anyone caring for a parent who cannot be left alone. Video visits are available throughout Virginia, in either language, and you can move between video and in-person appointments whenever life changes.
Alice Tran is board certified as both a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner and a family nurse practitioner, licensed in Virginia. The family training is practical, not decorative: thyroid disease, anemia, vitamin deficiency, sleep apnea, and side effects from other medications all mimic psychiatric symptoms, and knowing to look changes what gets treated. She trained under psychiatrist Dr. Errol Segall, MD, who has more than fifty years of clinical experience.
She also grew up between two languages and two sets of expectations, so the family dynamics described in this office do not need to be explained from scratch. Relatives can join a visit when you want them there, and they can be asked to step out when you do not.
Practical details are kept simple. New patients are usually seen within one to two weeks. No referral is needed. Most major insurance is accepted, including Aetna, Anthem, Cigna, Medicare, and Medicaid, with coverage verified before the first appointment. Self-pay is $400 for the 60-minute initial visit and $200 or $250 for follow-ups, with no memberships and no hidden fees. See the rates page or read Alice's background on the about page.
Patients travel in from Falls Church, Bailey's Crossroads, Annandale, Merrifield, Fairfax, Arlington, Alexandria, and Lincolnia. Telehealth reaches every other part of Virginia.
Yes. Alice speaks Vietnamese fluently and runs the whole appointment in Tiếng Việt when you prefer, including the evaluation, the discussion about medication, and every follow-up. No interpreter, no third person on the line, no waiting for a phone service to connect.
They are welcome, with your permission. Many families find it useful to have one person present who knows the medical history. You can also ask them to step out for part of the visit if there is something you would rather say privately, and that request will be respected.
Standard hours are Monday through Thursday, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM Eastern, and evenings or weekends may be available on request. Video visits also remove the drive, so a 30-minute follow-up can happen from a break room or a parked car between shifts.
Yes. Medicaid and Medicare are accepted, along with most major commercial plans including Aetna, Anthem, and Cigna. Your coverage is verified before the first visit so you know what to expect. Self-pay is also available at $400 for the initial 60-minute visit and $200 or $250 for follow-ups.
Yes. What you share is confidential and protected by law, and nothing is disclosed to your family without your written permission. Some patients schedule video visits during work hours precisely so the conversation stays theirs. You decide who knows anything at all.
That is a reasonable position and you will not be pushed. Some people come only for an evaluation to understand what is happening. Supportive therapy, sleep work, and lifestyle changes are real options. If medication ever seems worth considering, it is a discussion, not a prescription handed over at the door.
Yes. Visits are held at doxy.me/alicetran, which opens in a phone browser with nothing to download and no account to create. You tap the link, allow the camera, and wait a moment. If the connection drops, the visit can continue by phone call.
Yes. Care is available to adults 18 to 65 living in Virginia, whether you arrived last year or forty years ago. If you are newly insured, coverage is checked ahead of time, and self-pay pricing is fixed and stated up front so there are no surprises.
The office is at 3060 Williams Drive, Suite 300, Fairfax, VA 22031, in the Merrifield area, roughly fifteen minutes west depending on traffic on Route 50 or Arlington Boulevard. Parking is free and on site, which is easier than the lots around the busy junction.
Adults ages 18 through 65 only. This is individual psychiatric care, so couples therapy and child or adolescent psychiatry are not offered here. If someone in your household needs care outside that range, ask and you will be pointed toward appropriate options.
Bring a photo ID, your insurance card if you are using insurance, and a list or photo of every medication and supplement you take, including anything prescribed overseas. If you have had psychiatric care before, notes or a discharge summary help, but nothing is required to be seen.
More answers are on the FAQ page, or write to the practice from the contact page.
You will complete brief intake forms online beforehand. In person, park free at 3060 Williams Drive and take the elevator to Suite 300. By video, open doxy.me/alicetran at your appointment time and wait in the virtual room for a moment.
The visit lasts about an hour and is a conversation, not a test. Alice will ask what has been happening and when it started, then move through sleep, appetite, energy, worry, mood, memory, past treatment, medical conditions, and family history. She will ask about alcohol and caffeine plainly, because both change what is going on. If you would rather speak Vietnamese, say so at the start and the visit continues in Vietnamese from there. By the end you will have an explanation of what is likely going on, a plan you agreed to, a clear description of what any medication is meant to do and what to watch for, and a follow-up on the calendar.
If you have been carrying this quietly, in either language, one appointment is a reasonable place to start. Booking is online, or call or text and speak with a person. Most major insurance accepted, no referral needed, and new patients are typically seen within one to two weeks.
Book Now →Or call/text: (703) 791-9099 · This is not a crisis service. In an emergency, call or text 988.
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