Psychiatric evaluations, medication management, and supportive therapy for adults 18 to 65, by secure video anywhere in Virginia.
Book an Appointment →Virginia Square sits between two much busier neighbors, and that is most of its character. There are no towers of restaurants, no crowd spilling onto the sidewalk on a Friday. What there is instead: George Mason University's Arlington campus and the Antonin Scalia Law School, a public library, older low-rise apartments alongside newer buildings, and streets that go genuinely quiet after nine. People who choose this stretch of the Orange Line usually chose it deliberately.
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. Most Virginia Square patients are seen by video. For anyone who prefers to sit in a room, the office is at 3060 Williams Drive, Suite 300, Fairfax, VA 22031, in the Merrifield area, with free parking on site.
The mix here is specific: graduate students, many of them working full time and taking classes in the evening, faculty and university staff, and mid-career professionals who wanted a shorter commute and a quieter block. Two very different clocks run in the same few streets, and each one produces its own set of problems.
Evening classes after a full workday, reading on weekends, and a degree that is supposed to be the investment that pays off later. Sleep is the first thing sacrificed and the last thing anyone thinks to mention to a clinician.
Reading loads that resist skimming, exams that reward sustained focus, and structures with far fewer external deadlines than a job provides. Graduate work is where a lot of previously invisible ADHD becomes impossible to work around.
The calm that makes this neighborhood appealing can tip into isolation, particularly for people who moved here for a program and know almost no one outside it. Low mood grows well in a quiet room.
Leaving a stable job for a degree, or finishing one and finding the market indifferent, produces anxiety that reasoning does not touch. Identity and finances are both in play, which is why it hits harder than it seems it should.
Legal and policy environments reward projecting confidence. Doing that continuously while privately doubting yourself is tiring in a way that rarely gets named until something gives.
A medication started years ago in another city, refilled by whoever was available, never really reviewed. Plenty of first appointments here are essentially an audit of a plan nobody has looked at closely in a long time.
Video is the usual arrangement. Visits take place at doxy.me/alicetran, which opens in a browser with no app and no account required. Every appointment is a video appointment, and there is no telephone option; if the connection drops, you rejoin the same link while the office calls to help you reconnect so the visit finishes on video. You need to be physically located in Virginia during the appointment, which is worth planning around if you travel for fieldwork or a clerkship.
In-person visits are available in Fairfax at 3060 Williams Drive, Suite 300, about 20 to 30 minutes from Virginia Square depending on the hour, with free on-site parking. Some patients do the initial evaluation in person and everything after that by video. It is the same clinician regardless. The Northern Virginia telehealth page covers the mechanics.
Psychiatric evaluation. Sixty minutes, which is long enough to build a timeline rather than take a snapshot. Alice asks what changed and when, what else was happening then, what has been tried before and how each attempt ended, how you sleep during term versus between terms, what caffeine and alcohol genuinely look like, and how a normal weekday feels from the inside. People who have moved between cities for school often carry a fragmented treatment history, and part of the hour is putting it back into one narrative.
Medication management. Nothing gets prescribed before it gets explained: what it is meant to do, how long a real response takes, which side effects to watch in the first two weeks, and the plan if it turns out to be a poor fit. Changes track your response rather than a protocol. Prescriptions are sent electronically to whatever pharmacy is convenient, including one you pass on the way home from the station. Controlled medications, including stimulants used for ADHD, follow Virginia requirements, which can mean an in-person visit in Fairfax.
Supportive therapy. Follow-ups leave room for the conversation, not just the prescription. That might mean deciding whether to reduce a course load, working out how to tell an advisor something is going wrong, or building a study routine that does not depend on all-nighters. When structured, longer-term therapy is what is needed, such as trauma processing or a full CBT protocol, Alice says so and helps you find a therapist, and she is glad to coordinate with anyone already treating you. The services page has more detail.
Intake forms are sent in advance so the hour is spent talking. Coverage is verified before you are seen, so the cost is known ahead of time. You join at doxy.me/alicetran a few minutes early from wherever you can close a door.
The visit begins as a conversation. Alice tends to ask why now, since what finally moved you to book usually carries more information than a symptom list. The hour then covers symptoms, history, medical background, and current medications, before she explains her thinking in plain language along with the realistic options. You leave with a plan you helped make, not one handed over. First follow-ups are commonly two to four weeks out. If you want to organize your thoughts first, the free adult ADHD self-check, GAD-7, and PHQ-9 are on this site.
Adult psychiatry across the usual range, assessed in terms of how something is affecting your actual week.
Attention and executive function. Adult ADHD, including first evaluations prompted by graduate coursework and re-evaluations for people who stopped treatment years ago. See ADHD treatment in Virginia.
Anxiety spectrum. Generalized anxiety, panic disorder, and obsessive compulsive disorder, including perfectionism that has crossed from a work habit into something that costs you nights. More at anxiety treatment in Virginia.
Mood. Depression, bipolar disorder, and grief, including loss that happened before you moved here and never got processed. See depression treatment in Virginia.
Trauma, sleep, and depletion. PTSD and trauma responses, insomnia from a schedule that keeps shifting, and burnout. Postpartum and perinatal mood changes are treated as well.
You see the same clinician every visit. For anyone whose care has been scattered across a student health center, a primary care office, and whoever a portal assigned last, that alone changes the quality of the decisions being made.
Alice trained under psychiatrist Dr. Errol Segall, MD, who has more than 50 years of clinical experience, and she holds dual board certification in psychiatric mental health and family practice. The family practice side means thyroid function, anemia, sleep apnea, and medication interactions get checked rather than skipped, which matters when the leading complaint is that you cannot concentrate.
Rates are published and flat: $400 for the 60 minute initial evaluation, $200 for a 30 minute follow-up, and $250 for a 45 minute follow-up, with no memberships and nothing hidden. Aetna, Anthem, Cigna, Medicare, and Medicaid are accepted, with coverage verified before your first visit. Details are on the rates page, and there is more about Alice.
Care can be provided entirely in English or entirely in Tiếng Việt, with no interpreter present.
Virginia Square sits in the middle of the corridor, so patients frequently come from the stops around it. Alice sees adults across Arlington, including Ballston and Clarendon, as well as Falls Church, Fairfax, Reston, and Herndon. Telehealth reaches anywhere in Virginia.
Neither. The office is at 3060 Williams Drive, Suite 300, Fairfax, VA 22031, in the Merrifield area, with free on-site parking. Virginia Square is a community served, and most of that care happens by video. You are welcome to come to Fairfax for in-person appointments if that suits you better.
Yes, and it usually has to be. Deadlines, exams, funding, and the question of whether the degree was the right call are not separate from mood and attention; they are the environment those symptoms live in. Adults 18 to 65 are seen, which covers most graduate students.
Often, after an evaluation. Bring the medication name, the dose, when it started, and how it has worked. Controlled medications are prescribed under Virginia requirements, which sometimes calls for an in-person appointment at the Fairfax office. Nothing is continued or changed without a full assessment first.
Treatment does not have to stop. Self-pay rates are published and flat: $400 for the initial 60 minute evaluation, $200 for a 30 minute follow-up, and $250 for a 45 minute follow-up, with no memberships and no hidden fees. Tell the office when the change happens so billing can be handled cleanly.
Yes, if the room is genuinely private and the connection is stable. A reservable study room with the door closed and headphones on works well. So does a parked car. The link is doxy.me/alicetran and opens in a browser with nothing to install.
No. Diagnosis here is clinical, based on a detailed history, developmental information, standardized rating scales, and a review of other explanations such as sleep, anxiety, and thyroid function. If full neuropsychological testing is warranted, Alice will say so and help you find someone who does it.
Usually at the end of the visit you are in, most often two to four weeks out at first and further apart once things are steady. Booking one at a time rather than holding a permanent weekly slot tends to suit people whose semester schedule changes every few months.
This is a common worry and worth raising directly at your first visit rather than carrying alone. In general, character and fitness processes and background investigations focus on conduct and current functioning rather than penalizing people for getting treatment. Alice can talk through what is and is not in your record, but she is not a lawyer and cannot give legal advice about a specific application.
Yes. Anyone 18 to 65 living or working in the area can be a patient, whether or not there is any university connection. Virginia Square patients include university employees, mid-career professionals in nearby offices, and people who simply live in the neighborhood.
That is a legitimate way to use an evaluation. Some people come for a clear assessment and leave with a plan built around sleep, structure, and follow-up. Medication is presented as one option with its trade-offs, and the decision is yours.
No. Everything is scheduled, and new patients are typically seen within one to two weeks. Regular hours are Monday through Thursday, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM Eastern, with evening or weekend times sometimes available on request. This practice is not a crisis service; if you need help immediately, call or text 988.
Further questions are answered on the FAQ page.
Booking online takes a couple of minutes, or call or text (703) 791-9099 to ask a question first. New patients are typically seen within one to two weeks, no referral is required, and insurance is verified before your first visit. Email info@alicetrannp.com any time. If you need help immediately, call or text 988.
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