Is it a psychiatrist that just works with meds, or do they also do therapy?

Seems unusual for a psychiatrist to take that long to figure out treatment with meds... but if therapy is involved, then sometimes therapists are reluctant to nail down a diagnosis. They would rather work with the symptoms. So in that situation (and that may not be what's happening), I could see them having a prolonged period of 'assessing' a person before coming to conclusions.