How We Treat

Patient appointments may be scheduled securely online or by calling the office manager at 703-839-0143

Paper charts can be utilized for added security from cyber related risks

Once an appointment has been scheduled, you will receive an email explaining how to add your contact information and upload your forms and documents

• Patient appointments may also be cancelled and rescheduled online for your convenience

The Initial Psychiatric Evaluation (intake) is typically scheduled as a single 90 minute session and may require additional time for more complex cases. Additional sessions are always available as needed

Our state of the art EKG ensures issues such as anxiety and palpitations are not due to an underlying cardiac arrhythmia

• No Sticky Probes required!

After you have scheduled your intake appointment, our clinical director can assess whether your needs are a good fit for the practice and areas of expertise

• 99% of patients can be managed within the practice, but features such as frequent self harm, court ordered treatment, and recurrent involuntary hospitalizations are best managed with multiple community providers that offer wrap around services

• If your treatment needs demand a higher level of care beyond what we can provide, we will coordinate treatment recommendations and referrals to support your needs

Please bring all of your history forms, previous evaluations, testing, labs or other information you want the physician to review as part of the evaluation

• Previous medical records will allow our physicians to know what not to repeat and helps for efficient information gathering. Sometimes unsuccessful treatment efforts are clues to the correct diagnosis and the best treatment approach possible

Detailed superbills are provided, after payment, with patient specific diagnostic codes

If you wish to schedule with our office manager, please email admin@dmvtreatment.com or call 703-839-0143

Refills will be provided at appointments and sent electronically to the pharmacy you designate

If medically indicated, your provider may prescribe controlled substances that require queries into the prescription monitoring database to mitigate against misuse, abuse, and diversion

Conflicts like business meetings, sports practices and games, homework, and religious school commitments may create conflicts with your scheduled time. With enough notice, we can sometimes reschedule appointments within the same week, and if so there is no charge

If the time can be filled by another patient, you will not be charged for the late cancellation. Our staff are good at filling late cancellations, so please give us whatever notice you can, even if it less than 24 hours before your appointment.   Alternatively, you may email our clinical director at admin@dmvtreatment.com and we will do everything we can to fill the time and prevent a late cancellation charge

Like many mental health practice in our area, we do not participate in Medicare, Medicaid, or any insurance company panels, but many of our patients are able to get some degree of reimbursement from their insurance carrier for "out-of-network" benefits or "non-participating" provider

Insurance companies place many constraints on mental health providers that limit our ability to offer the highest quality care to our patients.  They require specific diagnoses codes for each session, and put stringent controls on the length and quantity of sessions based on their specific algorithms.  Additionally, confidentiality issues arise when providers are required to provide the full treatment notes to insurance companies with sensitive personal information.  Our goal is to provide you with the optimal treatment tailored to your specific needs.

If you need to use your insurance coverage, the best way to access that is through your insurance company website. You should contact your insurance company to verify your mental health benefits prior to engaging in treatment

We utilize HIPAA compliant televideo services through DrChrono for eligible patients

Please be sure ahead of time that you have a private place to talk without interruptions from people or pets

It is your responsibility to assure that you have good Wifi, cell phone or internet access

Please double-check that your device is charged, or have a charger available for our session

If inclement weather prevents us from having a previously scheduled in-person meeting, our physicians use telemedicine to ensure appropriate care is received