For the Vietnamese community in Fairfax County, care in the language that feels like home, from a provider who understands the cultural context you grew up in.
Book an Appointment →The Vietnamese community in Fairfax County, stretching through Annandale, Springfield, and the surrounding corridor, has been here since the late 1970s and early 1980s. It is now multi-generational: grandparents who came after 1975, parents who rebuilt their lives from nothing, and children who grew up American but Vietnamese at home.
Each generation carries something different. The first generation carries the weight of what they left and what they built. The second generation carries the gap between two worlds, Vietnamese enough for family, American enough for everything else. Both deserve psychiatric care that understands what that actually means, not just a translated intake form.
Alice Tran, PMHNP-BC grew up in this in-between space. She provides psychiatric evaluations, medication management, and supportive therapy fully in Vietnamese for adults in Fairfax, Annandale, Springfield, and across Northern Virginia via telehealth.
"Tôi chưa bao giờ nói chuyện với ai về chuyện này."
"I have never talked to anyone about this."
For many Vietnamese adults who came here as refugees or immigrants, mental health was a luxury, something for people who had the time and safety to be fragile. The idea of asking for help can feel like an admission of failure, or a betrayal of everything they survived to build. Alice works within that frame, not against it. She understands the cultural logic of endurance, and when endurance has become a harm rather than a strength.
"Tôi không biết mình thuộc về đâu."
"I don't know where I belong."
The children of immigrants face a different weight: the pressure to succeed enough to justify the sacrifice, the guilt of wanting a life that looks different from what was expected, the identity dissonance of being Vietnamese at home and American everywhere else. Alice sees these experiences not as cultural curiosities but as legitimate clinical material, things worth naming and treating.
No interpreter. No translation delay. The whole appointment, in the language you think in.
Psychiatric Evaluation
A full 60-minute intake appointment conducted in Vietnamese. Your history, your symptoms, your goals, in the language where you can actually express them accurately.
Medication Management
Medication options explained clearly in Vietnamese, what each medication does, why it's being considered, what side effects to watch for, and how long to expect before seeing results.
Supportive Therapy
Brief, culturally attuned therapy woven into every visit. Family dynamics, immigration experience, intergenerational expectations, all welcome topics, in whatever language they come out in.
Yes, with your consent. Many Vietnamese families make mental health decisions together, and Alice welcomes that. She can speak directly with family members in Vietnamese, explain the diagnosis and treatment plan, and answer their questions. Their involvement, when you want it, is an asset, not an obstacle.
This is one of the most common questions Alice hears. She can help you think through how to approach the conversation with your family, what language might land, what to expect, and how to manage the gap between what you know you need and what your family understands about it. You are not alone in this.
Within many Vietnamese families, yes, there can be. Alice does not pretend that isn't real. She also knows that the people who show up for this appointment have often already crossed a significant internal threshold just to be there. That takes courage, and it is treated as such.
Yes. Via telehealth, Alice serves the Vietnamese communities throughout the Fairfax corridor, Annandale, Springfield, Centreville, Chantilly, and the surrounding areas. Patients join from their homes, which means no one has to find parking near Eden Center to get care.
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Psychiatric care in English and Vietnamese. Telehealth. New patients welcome.
Book an Appointment →Or call/text: (703) 791-9099
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