Adult ADHD Psychiatrist for Summit, NJ

Summit's train station sits on NJ Transit's Morris & Essex Lines. If you live in Summit and split the working week between a home office and a desk in Manhattan, that split is the main thing that shapes your adult ADHD care, because the rules for a visit depend on which side of the Hudson you are on when it starts. This page walks through it, along with Union County resources. It does not describe an office in Summit. The office can tell you how visits are arranged.

Adults only, and why that matters in Summit

For many families, ADHD first comes up through a child's school. Dr. Shershow sees adults 18 and older and does not treat children or teens. Some parents recognize their own patterns while a child is being evaluated. An evaluation for that parent is what this practice provides. For a child or teen, the school, the pediatrician or a child and adolescent psychiatrist is the right starting point.

Home in Summit or at work in Manhattan: two sets of rules

A clinician must be licensed in the state where the patient is physically located during the visit. New Jersey's telehealth statute, as amended by P.L.2026, c.40, requires a New Jersey license for telehealth with a patient in New Jersey, and New York's licensing guidance requires a New York license for a patient located in New York. Dr. Shershow holds both, which keeps either location open. What changes is the prescribing rules.

Hybrid workers sometimes do one visit from home and the next from the office. That is allowed, but it means two sets of rules can apply to one course of treatment. If you will be in New Jersey for visits, the office will explain how visits are arranged so New Jersey's requirements are met. Tell the office where you are at the start of every visit, and avoid taking one on a train, which crosses the state line partway through the ride. The details for commuters are in ADHD care for New Jersey commuters who work in New York City.

The Midtown Direct diversion

As of October 19, 2026, NJ Transit's station pages, including Summit's, carry an alert that Midtown Direct trains on the Morristown Line, the Gladstone Branch and the Montclair-Boonton Line are being diverted to Hoboken while rail runs on a "Portal Cutover" weekday schedule. Rail tickets are cross-honored on PATH (at Hoboken and 33rd Street only), NY Waterway to Midtown and the NJ Transit 126 bus.

Two things follow for anyone planning visits around a commute. A longer trip makes a lunchtime visit from the office harder to fit in, so a visit from home may be easier for now. And if a delay leaves you in Hoboken when the visit starts, you are in New Jersey. Say so.

Filling prescriptions when you live in one state and work in another

In New Jersey, a single Schedule II prescription may cover no more than 30 days. A prescriber may write several prescriptions totaling up to 90 days, each with an earliest fill date, when that does not create undue risk (N.J.A.C. 13:35-7.6). Federal rules bar refills of Schedule II prescriptions. 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)).

Commuters often ask whether to fill in Summit or near the office. Either can work, but pharmacies follow the law of the state they are in, and stock of a particular product varies. Choose one pharmacy, call ahead before each prescription is sent, and read filling an ADHD prescription across the New York and New Jersey line before you switch states. For supply problems, see the ADHD medication shortage in New Jersey.

Union County resources that are not the practice

Dr. Shershow's practice is not an emergency service. If anyone is in danger, call 911. For a mental health crisis, call or text 988.

The state Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services directory (updated October 8, 2026) lists Union County's designated psychiatric emergency screening services:

• Trinitas Regional Medical Center/RWJ Barnabas, 655 East Jersey Street, Elizabeth: the primary screening service. 24-hour line: 908-994-7131.
• Overlook Medical Center in Summit: an affiliated emergency service.
• Rahway Hospital: an affiliated emergency service.

For non-emergency help, Union County's Office on Behavioral Health and Substance Misuse, part of the county Department of Human Services in Elizabeth, provides information and linkage to behavioral health and substance use services for residents. New Jersey's Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Services lists a Plainfield office for Union County (state table dated August 2024; call to confirm). For college students in the county, Kean University's Office of Accessibility Services on the Union campus handles accommodation requests.

Time off for appointments

New Jersey's Earned Sick Leave law gives employees up to 40 hours a year for their own physical or mental health care. If your employer is based in New York City, different local rules may apply, so check with HR. For current fees and how insurance works with the practice, call the office.

Starting from Summit

Call the office or use the call-back form. Say whether you expect to be in New Jersey or New York for visits, and list current medications and any prior ADHD diagnosis or records. If you are restarting treatment you had as a student, restarting ADHD treatment in New Jersey explains what records help. The adult ADHD self-test is a useful way to organize your notes first, and adult ADHD care for Union County covers the wider county.