What we will not claim
Social workers don't prescribe, and don't do psychological testing. This practice refers.
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A social worker in New York may not prescribe or administer drugs, and only a psychologist may call their services psychological. So this practice offers therapy, and when medication or testing may help, it says so and refers you.
What you will see advertised
“Medication management, psychiatric evaluations and psychological testing, all in-house.”
Quoted in order to be refused: this practice never says it, and the rest of this page says why.
Why a practice says it, and why it misleads
Everything in one office sounds convenient: one waiting room, one appointment book, nobody to be passed on to.
It misleads because these are different jobs. Medication is prescribed by a doctor who prescribes, and a social worker's training and rules do not include it. Tests of attention or learning are a discipline of their own. A practice that lists all of it as if one door opened onto each is either overstating what it does or working with people the reader never sees.
Saying what the practice does not do is a service in itself. A reader who knows that medication or a formal evaluation belongs elsewhere can ask for it, and can ask the clinician to work alongside whoever provides it.
What the law says
As it read in October 2026.
It is unprofessional conduct for a social worker to prescribe or administer drugs or to perform invasive procedures (8 NYCRR § 29.16).
Only a licensed psychologist may describe their services as psychological (Education Law § 7601).
Licensed clinical social work includes the diagnosis of mental, emotional, behavioral, addictive and developmental disorders, and psychotherapy (Education Law § 7701).
- 8 NYCRR § 29.16 (opens the source in a new tab) It is unprofessional conduct for a social worker to prescribe or administer drugs or to perform invasive procedures.
- N.Y. Education Law § 7601 (opens the source in a new tab) Only a licensed psychologist may describe their services as psychological.
- N.Y. Education Law § 7701 (opens the source in a new tab) Licensed clinical social work includes the diagnosis of mental, emotional, behavioral, addictive and developmental disorders, and psychotherapy.
What this practice does
If medication might help, your clinician suggests a psychiatrist or your doctor, and can keep seeing you alongside them, with your permission to talk to each other.
Testing for learning or attention, and any evaluation for a court, a school or an employer, belongs to a psychologist or another service, and we'll say where to look.
Everything this practice does not offer, in one list:
- No medication, no psychiatric evaluation and no medication management: we refer you to a psychiatrist or your doctor.
- No psychological testing, which belongs to psychologists, and no evaluation for a court, a school or an employer.
- No emergency or crisis care: for that, 911 or 988.
- No program for drug or alcohol use: we'll help you find one, and can keep seeing you alongside it.
- No child under 13 seen on their own.
- Nothing that tries to change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity. Never, for anybody.
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The other things this site will not claim
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