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[quote=Anonymous]I've been through this.  If you want a talking doctor (which I just don't believe in anymore - didn't work for kids and we tried many), then look around and talk to parents to find out if they got any RESULTS.  We did not get any resutls with psychologists and found many disturbed ADHD people drawn to the field and are taking advantage of parents who have kids burdened by ADHD/Anxiety/ASD but don't know where to turn. But if you are talking meds, you need a psychiatrist.  If you do the therapist, tied into a psychiatrist model, then you wind up spending a zillion dollars and doing even more driving because the psychiatrist wants his or her piece of the action and will insist on check-up calls.  In other words, you will be seeing and paying both the therapist and the psychiatrist.  After years of trying this, we gave up and ended up with simply a psychiatrist for meds and no therapist.  The psych. monthly 20 min. visits are still required so she can bill us for something but at least we don't have the useless weekly trips to the psychologist.  And the psychiatrist moved mountains when it came to getting an IEP, which the therapist could not do.  The money we saved on therapists went to tutoring, which, in turn, reduced anxiety because the kids were more organized, performed better in school, and felt more confident when they started making better grades and making honor roll.[/quote]

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