Salem holds a special place in Virginia’s mental health map: home to the Salem VA Medical Center, Roanoke College, and neighborhoods of people who take care of everyone else. Alice Tran, PMHNP-BC offers psychiatric care here by secure telehealth.
Book an Appointment →Salem’s identity is service: the VA Medical Center staff who spend their careers treating veterans, the veterans themselves and their families throughout the valley, first responders, teachers, and LewisGale healthcare workers. Communities like that share a pattern: the people most practiced at giving care are often the last to receive it.
Alice sees it from Salem regularly: the VA nurse carrying secondary trauma home; the veteran who wants care outside the VA system, or alongside it; the Roanoke College student hitting their first real mental health challenge; and valley families managing depression and anxiety that got waved off for years as stress.
Alice Tran is a dual board-certified psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP-BC, FNP-BC) treating adults 18 to 65 for anxiety, depression, ADHD, OCD, PTSD, bipolar disorder, insomnia, and burnout, by secure telehealth across the Roanoke Valley. She coordinates with VA care when patients want both. Most major insurance is accepted, and new patients are typically seen within one to two weeks.
Private care outside the VA system, or coordinated alongside it, your choice, including PTSD-informed medication management.
VA and LewisGale staff get discreet, flexible appointments from a clinician who knows what hospital work extracts.
Confidential psychiatric care independent of the college, scheduled around classes, 18 and up.
The core of the practice: accurate diagnosis first, plain-language treatment second.
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Your first visit is a full psychiatric evaluation over secure video, about an hour: what brought you in now, your sleep, energy, mood and focus, your medical history, and what you have tried before. It is a conversation, not an interrogation, and you set the depth on anything difficult.
You leave with an initial diagnosis explained in plain language and a treatment plan you helped shape. Prescriptions go electronically to your local pharmacy the same day when medication is part of the plan, and the first follow-up lands two to four weeks later so treatment gets adjusted on real results.
Alice prescribes and manages the full range of psychiatric medications: antidepressants, anti-anxiety medications, stimulant and non-stimulant ADHD treatments, mood stabilizers, and sleep medications. Every choice is explained: why this one, what to expect in the first weeks, and which side effects matter.
Follow-ups run closer together while doses are adjusted and space out once you are stable. Partial improvement is treated as a signal to optimize, not a stopping point, and refill questions between visits get answered.
Appointments include supportive psychotherapy: practical, evidence-informed work on the stress, thought patterns, and habits underneath the symptoms. For many patients, medication plus meaningful conversation with one clinician is exactly the right level of care.
When structured weekly therapy such as CBT or trauma-focused work would add value, Alice says so plainly and helps you find a therapist, then coordinates so both halves of treatment pull together.
Yes. Many veterans use private care for psychiatric medication management alongside VA services, and Alice coordinates with your VA team whenever you want her to.
Yes: evaluation, evidence-based medication management including prazosin for trauma nightmares, and coordination with trauma-focused therapists when that is the right next step.
That is one of its quiet advantages: no waiting rooms and no chance encounters, which matters in a community where everyone knows everyone.
Yes, plus Aetna, Cigna, Medicaid, and most major plans. Coverage is verified before your first visit.
Typically within one to two weeks, far faster than most Roanoke Valley waitlists.
Yes. Follow-ups are 30 minutes by video and get scheduled around rotations; a parked car between shifts counts as an office.
Orders go to a lab location near you in Salem or Roanoke, with results returned electronically.
This practice is not a crisis service. Call or text 988, use the Veterans Crisis Line (988 then press 1), or go to the nearest emergency department.
Telehealth across the Roanoke Valley. Veteran-aware care. Most insurance accepted.
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