Upper West Side & Union Square Offices
Adolescent & Teen Psychiatrist in NYC
Same-week appointments available.
Dr. Kavin Fatehchand, MD, PhD
- Therapy + meds with one doctor
- Young adult & teenage mental health
- Stories before labels
- Same-Week appointments
- Complex case experts
Dr. Kavin Fatehchand, MD, PhD
Transitional Age Psychiatry
Psychiatry for Teenagers and Young Adults in NYC
The stretch from late adolescence into early adulthood has its own weather pattern.
Transitional age psychiatrists work with the years pediatric and adult care sometimes miss: adolescent psychiatry for ages 13-25.
During this period, the brain is still developing, but autonomy is growing. The shift at 18 hands patients a whole new set of questions. Leaving home, starting college, deciding howthey want to live their life.
As a psychiatrist for adolescents and young adults, I am able to understand when symptoms are biologically driven, or socially driven. I offer deep, longitudinal relationship with my patients and their families.
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The Concierge Difference
Someone Who Notices What Changes
Young adulthood moves fast — new city, new pressures, new independence. Care should hold steady while everything else shifts.
I see the same person from one semester to the next, so I notice what's shifted — sleep, mood, a new city, a course load that changed everything. Nothing gets re-explained from scratch to a stranger, because the person watching was already in the room.
You drive this. Family can be a real intervention — and involving them is your call, on your terms. Two things can be true: parents want to help, and your privacy still holds.
Starting, adjusting, or tapering a medication around college or a first apartment takes care and pacing. I'd rather understand what's driving your symptoms and peel back than keep adding.
If you're curious, let's talk
Whether you're a parent trying to make sense of what's changed, or a young adult wondering what's driving it — start with a conversation.
This is not an emergency practice. If you are experiencing an emergency, call 911, or call or text 988 for the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.
What I Work With in This Age Window
The concerns that tend to surface as a teen becomes a young adult.
Teen and college depression
ADHD in college students
First-episode psychosis
Eating disorders
Substance use, without the lecture
The pediatric-to-adult handoff
Medication across major transitions
Continuity when a student moves
Bipolar and mood disorders
When the transition breaks
"She's falling apart at college and I don't know who to call"
"I aged out of my child psychiatrist and don't know where to go." "She's home for the summer and off her meds." These are the moments people find me — and they don't have to be figured out alone.
Bring the story, and we'll make sense of it together — someone who keeps track of what changes, at a pace that fits.
How I Actually Practice
Why 13 to 25 Deserves Its Own Model
This window is its own country — a brain still wiring impulse and judgment, first real independence, and a legal line at eighteen that changes everything. Pediatric care leans on parents; general adult care assumes a settled life. Neither fits well. The system's habit is worse: age out of your pediatrician, hand off to someone new, get a fifteen-minute check that never learns your story. I'd rather stay — as an adolescent psychiatrist and young adult psychiatrist working with the same person straight through.
If you're the one reading this — not a parent, but the person actually living it — here's what changes at eighteen: HIPAA and FERPA shift, and your care becomes yours. Parents often tell me, "I can't get any information because she's technically an adult now." True. So I build family involvement by consent — you decide what gets shared, and with whom, on your terms. Clinicians genuinely disagree here; some guard autonomy strictly, I lean toward consented collaboration.
What's driving this — developmental turbulence, substance effects, or a primary disorder? I hold that question open, reassessing with real measures because someone this age changes fast. Do we taper before starting college or hold steady through the stress? Two things can be true, and there's no consensus — so we decide together. When you leave for school I coordinate with campus counseling, your therapist, and primary care. Licensure is a real limit: prescribing across state lines has boundaries I won't pretend around.
Questions Before We Begin
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Maybe you're a parent watching an 18-year-old who aged out of pediatric care, or a college student whose semester crashed. Maybe you're the young adult saying, I don't want to be treated like a little kid but I also need help. Or, I just want someone who actually gets young people. Wherever you're starting from, tell me a little about what's going on. Whether medication belongs in the picture or not, we figure that out together. If you're curious, let's start with a conversation.
About the Doctor
About Dr. Kavin Fatehchand
The person who forms the story of your care is the person who stays with it.
I'm Dr. Kavin Fatehchand, MD, PhD — a psychiatrist in New York who stays with the same person visit after visit, so I notice what's changed since we last talked instead of meeting you fresh each time. Before psychiatry, my doctoral research was in cancer immunology, where I spent years asking a single question: what's actually driving this? I bring the same curiosity to a person, not a leukemia cell — what's driving this, and why now?
I'm queer and South Asian, and I name that plainly because I want you to know who's sitting across from you. Representation is the first step — never an assumption that I already know your story. That's much of why I work well with emerging adults and minoritized patients: I'm just as curious as you are.
Medically reviewed by Dr. Kavin Fatehchand, MD-PhD — psychiatrist, New York City. Last reviewed August 2026.
