Adult psychiatric evaluations, medication management, and supportive therapy by secure video anywhere in Virginia, with in-person visits available in Fairfax.
Book an Appointment →Van Dorn is an apartment neighborhood at a Blue Line station, and right now it is a construction site with a Metro stop attached. The old Landmark Mall property is being rebuilt into a new district with an Inova hospital campus at its center, which means cranes, closed lanes, and a skyline that looks different every few months. For the people already living in the surrounding buildings, that change is not abstract. It arrives as noise at seven in the morning, as a rent renewal letter, and as an open question about whether this will still be affordable once it is finished.
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. Van Dorn is a fair distance from the Fairfax office, so care here is built around secure video at doxy.me/alicetran. In-person visits are available at 3060 Williams Drive, Suite 300, Fairfax, VA 22031, with free parking, when you want them.
Psychiatric evaluation. Sixty minutes, which is unusual and deliberate. Fifteen minute assessments produce fifteen minute conclusions. In an hour there is room to get the sequence straight: when symptoms started, what your living and working situation looked like then, what you have already tried, what happened in your family, how much you sleep, and what you use to get through the day. Alice also takes a full medical history. As a board-certified family nurse practitioner she checks whether thyroid disease, anemia, sleep apnea, or an interaction with a current prescription is part of the picture instead of stacking something new on top of an untreated cause. The services page describes the scope.
Medication management. Nothing gets prescribed before you understand it. What it is meant to do, roughly how long that takes, what to look out for in the first two weeks, and what happens if it is a poor fit. Changes are made one at a time. Prescriptions go electronically to whichever pharmacy suits you, along Van Dorn Street, in Kingstowne, or near your job. Controlled medications such as ADHD stimulants follow Virginia's requirements, which can mean coming to Fairfax for an appointment at some stage. Fuller detail is at medication management in Virginia.
Supportive therapy. Every follow-up leaves room for actual conversation. That might be about a housing decision, a job you are considering leaving, a family member you are supporting from another country, or a pattern you keep landing in. Where structured, longer-term therapy is the better tool, Alice will name it plainly and help you find a therapist, and she coordinates with clinicians you already work with.
Adults 18 to 65, across the standard range of adult psychiatric conditions.
Insomnia. Frequently the first target, because sleep loss magnifies everything else. Between rotating shifts, early construction noise, and a mind that will not switch off, this comes up more here than almost anything.
Anxiety, panic, and OCD. Anxiety tied to money and stability, panic attacks that feel like a medical emergency, and obsessive compulsive patterns. Start with the GAD-7 screener or read anxiety treatment in Virginia.
Depression, bipolar disorder, and grief. Including depression that never stopped you clocking in. The PHQ-9 is free, and depression treatment in Virginia covers the options.
ADHD in adults. Often raised when a job or a course demands sustained paperwork rather than fast reactions. See the adult ADHD self-check, ADHD care, and ADHD treatment in Virginia.
Trauma, burnout, and new parenthood. PTSD and trauma responses, including experiences from before arriving in the United States, along with burnout and postpartum or perinatal mood changes.
This is a renter-heavy, diverse, hard-working corner of Alexandria in the middle of being redeveloped around its residents. The reasons people call reflect that fairly directly.
Renewal season arrives with a number on it, and the number keeps moving. Not knowing whether you will still be in the neighborhood in a year produces a specific kind of low-grade dread that rarely gets named as anxiety, but behaves exactly like it.
Redevelopment happens on someone else's schedule. Broken sleep from early morning work, dust, and rerouted traffic wears people down slowly, and it tends to be dismissed as something you should just tolerate.
Rotating shifts across healthcare, warehouses, retail, hospitality, and transit. A body that never gets a consistent sleep window struggles with mood and concentration regardless of how disciplined the person is.
Sending money home, managing family matters across time zones, carrying decisions for relatives in another country. It is a load that does not show up on any calendar and does not stop for a bad week.
The shop you relied on closes, the bus route shifts, familiar neighbors leave. Small losses accumulate into a sense of not quite belonging in a place you have lived for years.
People who look after patients all day and then look after their own household at night. Compassion fatigue is a real clinical picture, not a lack of commitment, and it responds to treatment.
Paperwork is sent ahead so the hour is not consumed by forms, and coverage is verified beforehand so the cost is known in advance rather than arriving later as a surprise. Bring your medication list, including anything over the counter, and your insurance card if you are using one.
Join the link a few minutes early and find somewhere you can talk. The opening stretch is conversation. Alice tends to start with why now, because the thing that turned a long-standing problem into a booked appointment usually matters. She moves through symptoms, history, health, and current medications, then explains what she is thinking, including anything she is unsure about, and the plan is decided jointly rather than handed over. Most people schedule the next visit two to four weeks out.
Given the distance, video is the sensible default here. Appointments run at doxy.me/alicetran, which opens in a browser on a phone, tablet, or laptop with no app to download and no account to register. You need to be physically inside Virginia while the visit takes place, which is worth remembering if you were planning to join from a trip.
Visits are conducted by video and not by telephone. If the connection fails, you rejoin the same link, and if you do not come back the office calls to help you sort it out so the appointment finishes on video. In-person care is available in Fairfax at 3060 Williams Drive, Suite 300, about thirty minutes away with free parking, and some patients use it once for the evaluation and then stay on video afterward. See the Northern Virginia telehealth page for more.
The same clinician sees you at every appointment. That is the main thing. When the provider changes each visit, the useful record of what helped and what did not gets thinner every time, and treatment restarts instead of progressing.
Alice trained under psychiatrist Dr. Errol Segall, MD, who has over 50 years of clinical experience, and holds dual board certification in psychiatric mental health and family practice. That second certification is practical, not ornamental, when a patient is managing several medical conditions alongside a psychiatric one.
Pricing is published rather than discovered later. Self-pay is $400 for the sixty minute initial visit, $200 for a thirty minute follow-up, and $250 for a forty-five minute follow-up, with no memberships and nothing hidden. Aetna, Anthem, Cigna, Medicare, and Medicaid are accepted, and benefits are checked before the first appointment. See rates or read about Alice. New patients are usually seen within one to two weeks, and no referral is required.
Care can be delivered fully in English or fully in Tiếng Việt with no interpreter in the room. More is on the Vietnamese psychiatric care page.
The Van Dorn corridor sits between several communities where Alice also sees patients, including Alexandria, Kingstowne, Springfield, Annandale, Bailey's Crossroads, Falls Church, Burke, Fair Oaks, and Fairfax. Telehealth is available anywhere in Virginia.
It belongs. Housing instability is one of the strongest ongoing stressors there is, and pretending it is off topic makes the rest of the conversation less useful. Alice cannot fix your lease. She can help with the sleep loss, the constant low-level dread, and the concentration problems that grow out of not knowing where you will be in twelve months.
It can be a real contributor, especially with early morning work near an apartment building. Noise-driven sleep disruption looks a lot like insomnia from anxiety, and the two often stack. Part of the evaluation is working out how much of your sleep problem is environmental, how much is a racing mind at night, and how much is something else entirely, because each one calls for a different fix.
Headphones solve most of it, since the other half of the conversation stops being audible. Beyond that, patients use a parked car, a bathroom with the fan on, a reserved room at work, or a study room at the library. The visit runs at doxy.me/alicetran in a browser on any device. The only firm requirement is that you are physically in Virginia during the appointment.
Yes on both counts, and it is common. Alice is a nurse practitioner, so the working conditions do not need explaining from scratch. Records stay inside this independent practice and are protected under HIPAA. Nothing reaches a hospital system, an employer, or a credentialing file without your written permission.
Free parking on site, right at the building, with accessible entry to the suite. The address is 3060 Williams Drive, Suite 300, Fairfax, VA 22031, in the Merrifield area, roughly thirty minutes from Van Dorn depending on the hour. There is no garage, no ticket, and no validation to chase down afterward.
It depends where the appointment falls relative to your sleep. Booking a 9:00 AM visit right after a twelve hour night shift usually means you are too depleted to say anything useful. Late morning after a few hours of sleep tends to work better. Say what your rotation looks like when you book and the time can be chosen around it rather than against it.
There is no fixed answer, and anyone promising one is guessing. Sleep changes are often the first thing people notice, sometimes within a couple of weeks. Mood and anxiety medications commonly take several weeks at an adequate dose before the picture is clear. That is why the first follow-up is usually set two to four weeks out rather than months later.
Yes. What matters is that you are physically in Virginia during your appointments, not how long you have lived here. Bring whatever records or medication bottles you have from your previous provider, and if you cannot get records right away, say what you remember. A recalled history is more useful than a delayed one.
Reschedule it. Virginia licensure means a visit cannot legally take place while you are sitting in another state, even by video, so a trip to see family in Maryland or a work assignment elsewhere means moving the appointment. Call or text (703) 791-9099 as far ahead as you can and it gets shifted.
Usually, yes. If you are covered by Aetna, Anthem, Cigna, Medicare, or Medicaid, you pay whatever your plan sets as your copay or coinsurance rather than the self-pay figure. Benefits are verified before the first appointment so you know the number in advance. The $400, $200, and $250 rates apply when you are paying directly, and there are no memberships or extra fees on top.
No. You see Alice every time, so the history is already there and follow-ups pick up where the last visit ended. That continuity is a large part of why a small practice works well for this. What she will ask each time is what changed since you last spoke, how the medication has felt, and what you want to focus on today.
Do not wait for an appointment. This practice does not provide crisis coverage and messages are not monitored outside of office hours. Call or text 988 for the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, or go to the nearest emergency department.
Additional questions are answered on the FAQ page.
Book at alicetran.intakeq.com/booking, 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 coverage is verified before the first visit. Email info@alicetrannp.com. If this is an emergency, call or text 988 instead.
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