Adult ADHD Psychiatrist for Hudson County, NJ

Hudson County has an estimated 735,033 residents (U.S. Census Bureau, July 2025). In Census commuting data, a larger share of its workers commute to New York than in any other New Jersey county. Hoboken and Jersey City have their own pages. This one is for the rest of the county: Bayonne, Union City, West New York, North Bergen, Weehawken, Secaucus, Kearny, Harrison, Guttenberg and East Newark. It covers the cross-river rules that shape ADHD care here, the county's emergency screening system, and public resources outside the practice.

A county that works in Manhattan

In Census commuting data for 2016 to 2020, about 31% of Hudson County's roughly 353,000 employed residents worked in New York State, and about 26% worked in Manhattan alone. That compares with about 22% working in New York for Bergen County and about 15% for Essex. Roughly 46% worked inside Hudson County.

The northern Hudson towns are tied to Manhattan by transit. NJ Transit's Bergenline Avenue light rail station, in a tunnel under the Palisades, serves Union City and West New York, and the Tonnelle Avenue station in North Bergen is about four minutes from the Port Imperial ferry terminal in Weehawken, according to NJ Transit.

For ADHD care, this means many Hudson residents take some visits from home in New Jersey and others from work in New York. Dr. Shershow holds licenses in both states and sees adults 18 and older, so one psychiatrist can cover both, as long as you are in one of the two states during each visit.

Which rules apply: home in Hudson or desk in Manhattan

Tell the office where you are at the start of every visit and keep it accurate. The office will explain how visits are arranged for patients located in New Jersey. The full cross-border picture is in living in New Jersey and getting ADHD care in New York and ADHD care for New Jersey commuters working in NYC.

Emergency screening in Hudson County

The state's October 2026 list names Jersey City Medical Center as Hudson County's primary designated screening service, with a 24-hour line at 866-367-6023. Two affiliated emergency services are listed for the rest of the county:

• Palisades Medical Center, 7600 River Road, North Bergen, 201-854-5760.
• Hoboken University Medical Center, 308 Willow Avenue, Hoboken, 201-418-2090.

For North Bergen, Guttenberg, West New York and Weehawken residents, Palisades Medical Center is the listed affiliated service located in North Hudson. You can also call or text 988, and call 911 in an emergency. Dr. Shershow's practice is not an emergency service. See mental health crisis resources in New Jersey.

Public resources that are not the practice

• Hudson County Department of Health and Human Services. The state lists the county's Mental Health Administrator and its Alcohol and Drug Director at 830 Bergen Avenue in Jersey City. This is the county contact for publicly funded mental health and addiction services.
• Hudson County Community College, North Hudson Campus. At 4800 John F. Kennedy Boulevard in Union City, linked to the light rail by a pedestrian bridge. The college says the campus offers mental health counseling and wellness programs for students, along with 19 degree and certificate programs. Students who need accommodations should ask the college's accessibility office what documentation it wants.
• Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Services. The Hudson County field office is listed at 438 Summit Avenue in Jersey City. See DVRS and adult ADHD.
• Statewide lines. NJ Mental Health Cares (866-202-4357, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily) and the NAMI New Jersey helpline (866-626-4664, weekdays) offer free support and referral.

Time off for appointments when you work across the river

Hudson commuters sometimes put off an evaluation because they cannot see how to fit appointments into a Manhattan workday. Two sick leave laws may help, depending on where you work:

• If you work in New York City: the city's Paid Safe and Sick Leave Law gives most employees up to 40 or 56 hours of protected paid time off a year, and the city lists medical appointments among the allowed reasons.
• If you work in New Jersey: the state's Earned Sick Leave law lets covered employees earn one hour of leave for every 30 hours worked, up to 40 hours a year, for diagnosis, care, treatment or preventive care for mental or physical illness.

Coverage rules differ by employer size and job type, so check your employer's policy and the agency pages listed in the sources for what applies to you.

Filling a prescription on either side of the river

Prescriptions filled in New Jersey are recorded in the state's Prescription Monitoring Program, and under N.J.A.C. 13:35-7.6(b) a prescriber checks it before starting any controlled substance. Hudson commuters often ask whether to fill near home or near work. Either can work. New Jersey's pharmacy rule says a pharmacist shall fill a prescription from a practitioner authorized in another state (N.J.A.C. 13:39-7.1), and New York's rule allows a pharmacy to fill an out-of-state Schedule II prescription delivered within 30 days of signing (10 NYCRR 80.78). A pharmacist may still refuse a prescription he or she doubts, and stock varies, so call first. See filling ADHD prescriptions at New Jersey pharmacies and filling across the New York and New Jersey line.

Insurance: whose law applies

Your coverage follows the state that issued the policy, not where you live. A policy issued or renewed in New Jersey since June 10, 2019 falls under P.L.2019, c.58, which the Department of Banking and Insurance says covers mental health conditions defined by reference to the DSM. If your coverage comes through a Manhattan employer on a New York-issued policy, New York's insurance protections apply instead. The office can tell you the current fees and how insurance works with the practice. See fees and insurance.

How to start

Call the office or use the call-back form on this page. Mention whether you will be in Hudson County, in New York, or switching between them for visits. Bring a list of current medications. The first appointment is described on the adult ADHD evaluation page.