Psychiatric Care in Clearwater, FL

Integrative, cash-pay telepsychiatry for Clearwater — from the comfort of home.

Mental Health Care for Clearwater

Clearwater runs on a beach and hospitality economy on the Pinellas side of the bay, where the working population and the visiting one barely overlap.

Willow & Stone brings doctoral-level, integrative psychiatric care to Clearwater and the surrounding Pinellas County area by secure telehealth — combining evidence-based medication management with functional, root-cause strategies. You get longer, unhurried appointments and a whole-person approach, without the commute or the waitlist.

Our Services for Clearwater

Why Choose Willow & Stone

• ✓Doctoral-level, board-certified psychiatric provider (Dr. Stacey Forbes, DNP, PMHNP-BC)
• ✓Integrative & functional approach — gut-brain axis, nutrition, labs, root causes
• ✓GeneSight pharmacogenomic testing to personalize medication
• ✓Experienced with treatment-resistant depression — root-cause workup, not just the next prescription
• ✓Cash-pay transparency — no insurance delays or prior authorizations
• ✓Telehealth-first convenience for Clearwater residents

Clearwater in practice

Clearwater sits on the Gulf side of the Pinellas peninsula, with an economy built on beach tourism, hospitality, and the service work that supports both, alongside a substantial retired population inland from the water. The visiting population and the working population barely overlap: the months that bring the most work are the months with the least time, and the quiet season brings thin hours and thin income. The city is also the international headquarters of the Church of Scientology, which is a notable feature of the local landscape and occasionally of the clinical conversation.

Getting care in Clearwater

Clearwater shares Pinellas County's basic problem — psychiatric availability concentrates across the bay in Tampa, and the bridges make that a real trip rather than a nominal one. Hospitality schedules put work directly across clinic hours, and seasonal income makes a fixed monthly cost harder to plan around in summer than in winter. Video visits fit into a shift break and remove the bridge, which are the two things that most often prevent a follow-up from happening.

What Clearwater patients need from a psychiatric practice

Seasonal economies produce predictable annual swings in work, income, and daylight, and mood tracks all three. A practice serving this kind of community needs to evaluate patterns across the whole year rather than at one point in it, and to build treatment plans that survive the lean months as well as the busy ones.

Shift workers are failed by conventional scheduling more than by anything else. When the clinic is open exactly during working hours, care does not happen — and what looks like disengagement is almost always a roster problem. Appointment times that can move with a rotation are the single most useful thing a practice can offer this population.

In a community built around long commutes, the day is fully committed before anyone considers adding an appointment, and healthcare is what gets deferred. Care that costs only the length of the visit — with no travel on either side — is what makes an ongoing treatment plan realistic rather than aspirational.

Transparent Cash-Pay Care

Willow & Stone is a direct-pay practice, so Clearwater patients skip insurance delays, prior authorizations, and surprise bills. We provide a superbill you can submit to your insurer for possible out-of-network reimbursement, and we're happy to review current rates with you before you book.

Other Florida Communities We Serve

Willow & Stone also provides telehealth psychiatry to St. Petersburg, Tampa.

Frequently Asked Questions

If you need help right now

Willow & Stone is an outpatient practice and is not an emergency service. If you or someone you care about is in immediate danger, call 911.

For urgent mental health support at any hour, call or text 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, or text HOME to 741741 for the Crisis Text Line. Both are free, confidential, and available 24/7 nationwide.