Pediatric psychiatric care without the months-long wait.

Thoughtful psychiatric evaluation and medication management for children and teens.

ADHD · Mood & anxiety · Diagnostic clarification · Medication management

New patient appointments available now.

Ages 5+ · Pennsylvania and Rhode Island telehealth · Insurance accepted

You know your child. You just may not know what's going on yet.

Maybe they're bright but struggling in school. They can't focus, they're increasingly anxious or irritable, they're having huge emotional reactions, or something simply seems different.

Maybe they already have an ADHD diagnosis, but treatment isn't working.

Or maybe they've collected several diagnoses and medications, and you're wondering whether anyone has stepped back and looked at the whole picture.

You don't need to know the diagnosis before you make an appointment.

Sometimes it's ADHD. Sometimes it isn't.

Difficulty concentrating, impulsivity, irritability and emotional dysregulation can have many causes.

I look at your child's development, school functioning, mood, sleep, behavior, treatment history and—most importantly—the pattern over time.

The goal isn't simply to find a label. It's to understand what's happening well enough to know what to do next.

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Board-Certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

Abby is the founder of McFerran Psychiatry and specializes in thoughtful psychiatric evaluation and medication management for children, adolescents and adults, with particular interests in ADHD, mood disorders and complex or unclear diagnoses.

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Getting psychiatric care shouldn't take six months.

ChildPsychPA was created to make specialized pediatric psychiatric care easier to access.

New-patient appointments are currently available.

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Insurance accepted · Private-pay options available

ChildPsychPA is a specialty service of McFerran Psychiatry.