Adult ADHD Psychiatrist for Queens

Queens has about 2.32 million residents in the NYC Health Department's 2024 estimates, and by the department's numbers it is the city's most immigrant borough: 47.6% of residents were born outside the US, against 36.5% citywide. That shapes how adults in Queens find mental health care, from which language they want to talk in to how they read an insurance directory. This page covers what is specific to Queens: who looks for adult ADHD care here, language and access, the rules that apply to a video visit taken from Queens, campus disability offices, and public resources. It does not describe an office in Queens. Call the office to ask how and where visits are held.

Queens by the numbers: language, coverage and access

The Health Department's Community Health Profiles dataset (updated May 2026) puts Queens at the top of the five boroughs on three measures that bear on finding care. None of these is an ADHD statistic.

Two practical points follow. First, ADHD symptoms are described in everyday language (losing track of conversations, starting tasks and not finishing them, feeling restless), and an evaluation depends on describing them accurately. If you would be more comfortable in a language other than English, ask the office before booking which languages visits can be held in; this page does not state the practice's languages. Second, New York requires insurers' provider directories to list the languages each provider speaks, according to a state fact sheet on behavioral health access, so the directory is a reasonable place to look for a clinician who speaks yours.

Who in Queens looks for adult ADHD care

• Students at Queens College, St. John's University, LaGuardia Community College and York College, often because a disability office asked for documentation or because coursework became harder to keep up with.
• Working adults who notice that missed deadlines, lateness and disorganization have followed them from school into every job.
• Adults who grew up outside the US, whose childhood school records may be missing or in another language. An evaluator can work around that. See ADHD evaluation without childhood records.
• Uninsured adults, who need to know what care costs before anything else. Options are compared in lower-cost adult ADHD care in New York.

Queens campus disability offices

Colleges decide accommodations under their own rules. An evaluation describes what it found; it cannot guarantee a diagnosis or an accommodation.

• York College (CUNY), Center for Students with Disabilities. Its ADHD documentation guideline is specific: the evaluation should be done by a qualified professional with training and experience in the full range of psychiatric disorders, be within the past three years, summarize history including onset, diagnosis and medication, identify functional limitations in the educational setting, and give a rationale for any recommended accommodations.
• Queens College (CUNY), Office for Students with Disabilities and Access (OSDA). Decides accommodations individually, based on documentation and the requirements of each course.
• St. John's University, Student Accessibility Services (SAS). Students request accommodations through the Accommodate system, reached from the university's Connect portal.
• LaGuardia Community College (CUNY), Office of Accessibility. M-Building, Room 102.

If you need documentation for school or an exam, see ADHD evaluations for accommodations in NYC.

Which rules apply to a video visit taken from Queens

New York's State Education Department says a practitioner must hold a New York license, or be otherwise authorized, when providing services to a patient located in New York. Dr. Shershow holds New York and New Jersey licenses, and you must be physically in one of those states for any video visit.

• Telehealth and stimulants. As of October 2026, New York sets no in-person requirement of its own for prescribing controlled medications by telehealth and follows federal rules, whose telemedicine flexibilities run through December 31, 2026.
• Prescription monitoring. Public Health Law section 3343-a requires prescribers to consult the state prescription monitoring program registry before prescribing a Schedule II, III or IV controlled substance.
• Traveling abroad. If you spend part of the year outside the US, a video visit cannot be held from there. Plan visits and prescriptions around trips; see traveling with ADHD medication.

Filling an ADHD prescription in Queens

Any pharmacy in Queens works within New York's regulation 10 NYCRR 80.67. Schedule II prescriptions cannot be refilled. The standard limit is a 30-day supply, and for attention deficit disorder (code B) a practitioner may prescribe up to a three-month supply when the condition or code is on the prescription. A new prescription within 30 days generally waits until all but a seven-day supply of the previous one is used. Because stimulant supply has been uneven, call the pharmacy before a prescription is sent and ask whether it has the exact medication and strength. The FDA's drug shortage database shows national status.

Queens resources that are not the practice

• NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst, Behavioral Health. The hospital describes behavioral health services for the culturally diverse community it serves, including emergency services for adults and for children and adolescents.
• NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens, Behavioral Health Treatment Center. The hospital lists psychiatry and behavioral health among its services; ask the clinic directly whether it evaluates adults for ADHD.
• NYC 988. Free, confidential support by phone, text or chat, 24 hours a day. Interpreters are available in more than 200 languages; stay on the line to be connected.
• ACCES-VR Queens District Office. 88-11 165th Street, 7th Floor, Jamaica, with interpreter and ASL services available. New York's vocational rehabilitation program helps adults whose disability affects getting or keeping work.
• NAMI-NYC Helpline. Call, text, chat or email, Monday to Friday, 10 AM to 5 PM.

Anyone in immediate danger should call 911.

Insurance questions under New York law

For plans regulated by New York, a first appointment with a mental health professional must be available within 10 business days, according to the state's fact sheet. If your plan's network cannot meet that, file an access complaint; the insurer has three business days to find a provider in its network, and if it cannot, it must approve an out-of-network referral at the same cost sharing you would pay inside the network. New York's Behavioral Health Ombudsman (CHAMP) helps at 888-614-5400. For this practice, the office can tell you the current fees and how insurance works with the practice; see fees and insurance.

How to start from Queens

Call the office or use the call-back form on this page. Say where you will usually be during visits and, if it matters to you, ask about language before booking. Gather what you can about school history, current medications and past treatment, even if records are incomplete.