ADHD Evaluation Services in NYC – Comprehensive Adult Assessment by a Board-Certified Psychiatrist
When adults finally look for ADHD evaluation in NYC, they have been struggling with this choice for quite some time.
They’ve completed a dozen online quizzes. They have read the articles. They have identified all descriptions of symptoms and then misjudged the identification. They attribute it to stress, to the lifestyle in New York, to having a different personality.
But they haven’t had an actual assessment. Having a thorough clinical evaluation by a Board Certified Psychiatrist that looks at their entire medical history, takes into account all factors, eliminates all possible conditions that might be causing what they are feeling, and then tells them things they are willing to believe.
That’s what Dr. John C. Shershow, M.D. offers. By design, his ADHD evaluation service in New York City is comprehensive, because the clinical implications of an incorrect diagnosis are large, and no adult who has been plowing a path of suffering for years is worthy of a quick response.
What Sets a Psychiatric ADHD Evaluation Apart in New York City
In New York City, there are more clinics that provide some kind of assessment for ADHD than anywhere in the world. For instance, a portion of “ADHD evaluation” services are available from neuropsychologists, psychologists, general practitioners, nurse practitioners, and telehealth platforms. The clinical quality of those offerings ranges from excellent to atrocious.
A psychiatric ADHD evaluation with a Board-Certified Psychiatrist is the best and most specific standard of care, especially for adults with complex clinical pictures. While a Psychologist or General Provider could not assess, diagnose, and treat psychiatric medication in the same clinical encounter, a
Board-Certified Psychiatrist would be able to do so. No crossovers between diagnosing and prescribing providers. All evaluations are by the clinician who treats you – from the first visit to the end.
It’s not just about the continuity of care; it’s something that matters to adults in New York city who’ve bounced between providers, have not found the consistency of care they’re looking for, or have found they’re diagnosed one minute and then it doesn’t seem to help for the next. It’s the basis of any effective treatment.
Why New York adults choose Dr. Shershow for their ADHD evaluation:
- Board-Certified Psychiatrist – most stringent level of psychiatric specialization; M.D. and has full prescribing power
- Adults-only practice – expert recognition of specific presentation of ADHD in adult professional and personal life
- One continuous clinical relationship – from evaluation, to diagnosis, to continued treatment management
- Comprehensive differential diagnosis – anxiety, depression, sleep disorders, burnout, and others categorized and excluded
- Face-to-face specialist care in NYC
- Telehealth evaluations available statewide – full clinical quality, accessible from anywhere in New York State
- Accepted United Healthcare out-of-network benefits
- Member, American Psychiatric Association
What Dr. Shershow's ADHD Evaluation Service in NYC Includes
All parts of Dr. Shershow’s evaluations are meant to give you a comprehensive, accurate, and clinically defensible picture of what’s – and what’s not – causing you the symptoms you’re experiencing.
What your comprehensive ADHD evaluation includes:
Full Developmental and Life History
Even if diagnosed in adulthood, ADHD is a neurodevelopmental disorder that begins during childhood. Dr. Shershow discusses what ADHD experiences run beneath the surface, beyond the situation, across school years, early career and adult relationships.
Symptom Assessment Across All Life Domains
A proper ADHD assessment reveals a measurable dysfunction for the lifetime, extending well beyond the number of points you earn at the office. The clinical picture includes professional output, relationship dynamics, financial aspects, sleep patterns, and your inner experience of effort, overwhelm, and exhaustion.
Full Differential Diagnosis
This is the step which most assessment services skip which can spell the difference between a good and bad treatment. Attention/executive function symptoms are highly similar in generalized anxiety disorder, major depression disorder, sleep disorders, thyroid dysfunction, and trauma responses. Some adults have ADHD in addition to one or more of these issues. Some have been misdiagnosed as having ADHD when it’s actually another factor. All of it is identified by Dr. Shershow’s evaluation, and if you don’t treat the proper condition, none of it gets better no matter how long you treat it.
Prior Treatment and Medication History Review
If you are already on medication, that will be clinical data that you’ve used before, before having ADHD or another psychiatric illness. Dr. Shershow’s clinical experience with how your nervous system has reacted to past treatments provides important clues into your neurobiology, and can have a direct impact on your future treatment.
Plain-Language Results and Treatment Discussion
Dr. Shershow does not give you a form to sign at the end of your exam and walk away. He presents you his clinical findings directly (what he found, how he arrived at that decision and what your options are). At the end of your initial appointment you have a direction for treatment and no more questions.
Online ADHD Evaluation Services in New York – Telehealth That Meets Manhattan Standards
ADHD evaluation services with Dr. Shershow are offered across New York State by telehealth, for adults, in the five boroughs, Westchester, Long Island and upstate NY – for those who prefer not to travel to an office or if in-patient care is not feasible.
Online ADHD evaluation via telehealth with Dr. Shershow offers:
- No commute, no waiting room – your assessment occurs where you are private and comfortable
- Scheduling built around demanding careers – early mornings, late work hours, and flexible schedules available
- Identical clinical rigor – clinical evaluation, differential diagnosis, results discussion and more
- Continuity through treatment – telehealth is not just for diagnosis, but support for continuing medication management and follow-up
New York State telehealth regulations are in statute to provide legally and clinically valid online ADHD evaluation and subsequent management of medication. Dr. Shershow follows the same standard of care for all telehealth visits.
“Dr. Shershow was incredibly kind, funny, intelligent, and truly cared about finding the approach that was right for me on my first visit.” — Patient Review
After Your Evaluation – What ADHD Treatment Looks Like
An evaluation is the base and treatment is the building. After your evaluation and diagnosis, Dr. Shershow creates a treatment strategy tailored to your clinical presentation, work requirements, and objectives.
Once evaluated in NYC, treatment for ADHD can take the form of:
- Psychiatric medication management – Stimulants and Non Stimulants – monitored according to documented clinical history and real time response to the medication
- Ongoing psychiatric follow-up – frequent visits to adjust treatment as life changes – not a single visit for treatment and another one in six months
- Co-occurring condition management – a clinical relationship with someone else for sleep, anxiety, and depression, rather than a multi-provider experience leaving many adults underserved
For adults who receive accurate assessment and appropriate treatment, results are uniform regarding improvement in the domains that led them to evaluation – work function, relationships, financial wellness, internal experience (how they feel in control of their own lives).
Who Comes to Dr. Shershow for an ADHD Evaluation in New York City
Adults who visit Dr. Shershow for evaluations represent the business world, including finance, law, media, technology, healthcare, creative industries, and academia, all across New York City. What they have in common is not the position or the symptoms. It is a particular form of experience that is stored:
Long-term work ethic and performance at a lower level compared to fellow students. The subjective awareness of an effective intellect which will not accommodate routine. A career that demonstrates some success but also a certain ongoing chaos within. Patterns that the person truly desires to change but just can’t.
Others are looking for initial assessment. Others, have previous diagnoses but no meaningful treatment. Some come because a diagnosis of ADHD in their child causes the parent to see his or her own childhood everywhere they are given a description of ADHD.
No one profile fits all. There’s only a pattern – and an assessment that is created to specify and pinpoint just what that pattern signifies for your own neurological as well as psychiatric condition.
Schedule Your ADHD Evaluation in New York City Today
Dr. John C. Shershow, M.D. is open for new ADHD evaluation patients in NYC – both in-person in his Manhattan office and by telehealth throughout the state.
Out of network benefits accepted (United Healthcare). Licensed in NY and NJ. New patients are welcome.
Frequently Asked Questions – ADHD Evaluation Services NYC
Q: What exactly is included in Dr. Shershow's ADHD evaluation service in NYC?
Dr. Shershow’s evaluation is a thorough psychiatric assessment that includes your developmental history, current symptomology across all life domains, full differential diagnosis and a review of any previous treatment history. It is in-depth clinical interviewing and assessment, not a short digital screening or a short telehealth intake appointment but is a clinical interview that will result in a diagnosis you can use to guide treatment. At the end of the first appointment you will know what was discovered, its purpose and your treatment options.
Q: How is a psychiatric ADHD evaluation different from neuropsychological ADHD testing?
Neuropsychological testing refers to a series of multiple assays, including a detailed cognitive profile, that are performed by a psychologist and may not require the referral of a separate professional for medication management or tracking. Dr. Shershow’s psychiatric assessment process is a thorough clinical interview that results in a diagnosis and treatment plan in a single clinical relationship. If their first priority is getting to a correct diagnosis and then continuing on in an effective treatment, the psychiatric evaluation option avoids the multiple provider handoff and gets them to effective treatment sooner.
Q: Can I receive a telehealth ADHD evaluation in New York that is as clinically valid as an in-person visit?
Yes. Dr. Shershow’s telehealth consultations are as rigorous as his consultations in Manhattan, involving the same clinical history taking, differential diagnosis and results discussions. Online ADHD evaluation and subsequent medication management is fully allowed by New York State laws and regulations under telehealth guidelines. The format is different but not the clinical quality.
Q: Will my ADHD evaluation include assessment for anxiety or depression?
Yes – this is one of the most crucial aspects of the process. Adults with ADHD are at very high risk of having anxiety and/or depression, and they can also experience both conditions without ADHD symptoms.Anxiety and depression can co-occur with ADHD, and may also occur independently of ADHD. Dr. Shershow’s approach to differential diagnosis is a conscious examination of all of the factors that might be causing your symptoms. If there are co-occurring conditions, they will be dealt with during your treatment, rather than given a separate referral.
Q: Can Dr. Shershow's ADHD evaluation support a workplace accommodation request in New York?
Yes. If you have a Board-Certified Psychiatrist’s diagnosis of ADHD, this diagnosis can provide a clinical basis for requesting workplace accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act and/or New York State Human Rights Law. At your consultation, Dr. Shershow can discuss what documentation is normally requested for various professional testing, graduate testing programs, workplace accommodation programs.
Q: What happens after my ADHD evaluation if I am diagnosed?
After an ADHD diagnosis is confirmed, Dr. Shershow creates a personalized treatment plan for each patient based on their unique clinical profile and treatment outcomes. This should include a discussion about medication options, both stimulant and non-stimulant, with individual consideration of option and dose. Blood tests and follow-up appointments are used to check how you’re doing and go over your treatment plan. Patients and their families do not have a clinical relationship that is limited to diagnosis – it should be one that helps you throughout your treatment.
Satisfied Patients
“Professional and thoughtful in his practice. Good listener. Genuinely wants the best for his patients..”
“I could not have asked for a better first visit with Dr. Shershow. He was kind, funny, intelligent and cared about my medications and what plan was best for me. “