Psychiatrist said therapist can’t make adhd diagnosis?
I got formally diagnosed w adhd by my therapist (who has an MA and PhD in psychology and is also an lpcc, ncc, lsp, led, and lsc) and my psychiatrist said therapists can “only make suggestions” and cannot diagnose anything. I was seeing my psychiatrist to switch antidepressants and told her I really struggle w focus and recently got an adhd diagnosis so that any antidepressant I try I really don’t want it to make my focus worse in any way. She said she’ll take me saying I got a diagnosis w a grain of salt. She said unless my therapist is a psychologist that she can’t actually diagnose. My therapist IS a psychologist and like I said had a PhD and several licenses and is recommended by psychology today. I didn’t say anything to that during the appt bc I was so confused and felt so shut down. I feel like my Fahd diagnosis has made a lot of things make sense in my life w how I operate and I was just so lost.
Idk where to move forward from here…is my psychiatrist right that my therapist can’t actually diagnose me? I’ve been seeing her for months and went through all the assessments for adhd so I’m just confused. My psychiatrist had no problem w the depression and anxiety diagnoses but seems to not agree w the adhd one for some reason
Anyone have any suggestions??