Adult ADHD Psychiatrist for Morristown, NJ

Adults in the Morristown area who start looking for an ADHD evaluation usually arrive from one of a few directions: students and graduate students at the colleges in Morristown and Madison, people who work at Morristown Medical Center and the offices around the Green, and commuters who ride the Morris & Essex trains toward Newark, Hoboken and Manhattan. Each group runs into slightly different questions. This page covers the ones that are specific to living, studying or working here. It does not describe an office location. The office can tell you how visits are arranged.

Which state's rules apply to a video visit from Morristown

The rule that decides almost everything is where you are physically sitting when the visit starts. New Jersey's telehealth statute, as amended by P.L.2026, c.40, requires a clinician who treats a patient by telehealth to be validly licensed to provide services in New Jersey. Dr. Shershow holds New Jersey and New York licenses, so a video visit taken from your home in Morristown, Madison or Morris Township is a New Jersey visit, and New Jersey rules apply to it.

For adults who end up on a Schedule II stimulant, those rules changed on July 8, 2026. Under P.L.2026, c.40, when the first examination for a patient located in New Jersey is done by telehealth:

• an in-person visit is required within 30 days of that first examination;
• after that, there must be an in-person visit or a real-time telehealth contact every three months;
• an in-person visit is required at least once a year while the stimulant continues.

None of this applies to nonstimulant medications, and none of it decides whether medication is right for you. If you are located in New Jersey for your visits, the office will explain how visits are arranged so that these requirements are met. The fuller timeline, including what changed in February 2026, is in telehealth ADHD prescriptions in New Jersey.

New York's licensing guidance takes the same location-based approach: a practitioner needs a New York license to serve a patient located in New York. A Morristown resident who takes a follow-up visit from a Midtown office is a New York patient for that visit.

Commuting on the Morris & Essex Lines right now

Morristown station is served by NJ Transit's Morris & Essex Lines. As of October 19, 2026, NJ Transit's station pages carry a service alert saying Midtown Direct trains on the Morristown Line are being diverted to Hoboken while rail runs on a "Portal Cutover" weekday schedule, with rail tickets cross-honored on PATH (at Hoboken and 33rd Street), NY Waterway to Midtown and the NJ Transit 126 bus.

That matters for visit planning in a way people do not expect. If you booked a video visit from your desk in Manhattan and the diversion leaves you in Hoboken at visit time, you are in New Jersey, not New York. Tell the office where you actually are before the visit begins. Accurate location is part of what keeps a prescription valid. The cross-border details for commuters are collected in ADHD care for New Jersey commuters who work in New York City.

Students at Drew, Saint Elizabeth and FDU Florham

Three campuses in Morristown and neighboring Madison each have its own office for disability accommodations:

• Drew University (Madison): the Office of Accessibility Resources, part of the Center for Academic Excellence.
• Saint Elizabeth University (Morristown): Accessibility Services.
• Fairleigh Dickinson University, Florham Campus (Madison): Disability Support Services.

Accommodations are decided by the school, not by the clinician who writes the documentation. Before you book an evaluation for accommodation purposes, ask the campus office exactly what it wants to see. Some schools accept a psychiatric evaluation report. Others ask for standardized test scores, which come from psychological or neuropsychological testing done by a psychologist. Dr. Shershow does the psychiatric evaluation and does not provide psychological testing, so knowing the school's requirement first saves time. No evaluation can promise a diagnosis or accommodations paperwork. More on this is in ADHD accommodations at New Jersey colleges.

If you are 18 or older and your permanent address is in another state, the location rule still applies: visits taken from your room in Madison are New Jersey visits.

Filling an ADHD prescription in Morris County

Stimulants such as methylphenidate and amphetamine products are Schedule II controlled substances, and New Jersey limits how they are written:

• A single prescription may not exceed a 30-day supply (N.J.A.C. 13:35-7.6).
• A prescriber may issue multiple prescriptions totaling up to a 90-day supply, each marked with the earliest date a pharmacy may fill it, when the prescriber decides this does not create undue risk.
• Federal law does not allow refills of Schedule II prescriptions (21 CFR 1306.12), which is why a new prescription is needed each time.
• Before starting any controlled substance, New Jersey prescribers take a history, examine the patient, make a reasonable effort to get past records, check the state Prescription Monitoring Program and write a treatment plan (N.J.A.C. 13:35-7.6(b)).

Stock of specific strengths and brands still varies from pharmacy to pharmacy. Calling your pharmacy before the prescription is sent, and asking whether it has the exact product, avoids a wasted trip. If you commute, decide whether you will fill near home or near work and keep it consistent. See filling an ADHD prescription across the New York and New Jersey line.

Morris County resources that are not the practice

Dr. Shershow's practice is not an emergency service. If you or someone with you may be in danger, call 911. For a mental health crisis you can call or text 988, the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.

New Jersey also runs a designated psychiatric emergency screening service in every county. According to the state Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services directory updated October 8, 2026:

• Morris County's primary screening service is Prime Healthcare Services, Saint Clare's, at 25 Pocono Road in Denville. Its 24-hour line is 973-625-6160.
• Morristown Medical Center, listed in the directory as Morristown Memorial Hospital at 100 Madison Avenue, is an affiliated emergency service. Its listed line is 973-540-0100.
• Chilton Medical Center in Pompton Plains is also an affiliated emergency service.

For non-emergency help, the county mental health administrator for Morris County sits in the Morris County Department of Human Services. For job-related support, New Jersey's Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Services lists a Randolph office for Morris County (state table dated August 2024; call to confirm). Other statewide crisis options are listed in mental health crisis resources in New Jersey.

Time off and cost questions

New Jersey's Earned Sick Leave law gives employees up to 40 hours a year that can be used for their own physical or mental health care, which covers time for an evaluation or follow-up. If your employer is in New York City, its sick leave rules are different. For current fees and how insurance works with the practice, call the office. The office can explain both before you book.

Starting from Morristown

Call the office or use the call-back form on this page. It helps to say up front that you will be in New Jersey for your visits, to have a list of current medications, and, if you need school or work documentation, to have the exact requirements from your campus office or employer. The adult ADHD self-test can help you organize what you have noticed, and new patients explains what to have ready. For the whole county, see adult ADHD care for Morris County.