Medication Management for Fort Lauderdale Patients
Good psychiatric medication management is far more than writing a prescription. For Fort Lauderdale patients, Dr. Stacey Forbes, DNP, PMHNP-BC, takes the time to understand your full history, optimize your regimen, and monitor closely — all by secure telehealth.
Who benefits from medication management
- ✓Anyone starting a new psychiatric medication
- ✓People whose current medication isn’t working well
- ✓Those managing side effects or complex regimens
- ✓Patients seeking a second opinion on their medications
- ✓Anyone wanting a root-cause view alongside medication
Our Treatment Approach
Dr. Forbes personalizes medication selection and dosing, monitors response over time, and pairs prescribing with attention to labs, nutrition, and the gut-brain connection. GeneSight pharmacogenomic testing can help guide choices. Fort Lauderdale patients get longer, unhurried appointments instead of the typical rushed 15-minute visit.
Medication Management in Fort Lauderdale: the local picture
Fort Lauderdale anchors Broward County, a metropolitan area approaching two million people that is routinely treated as an extension of Miami and is not one. Its economy runs on marine industry, cruise and air travel through Port Everglades and the airport, hospitality, and a substantial professional and finance sector. The city also has one of the largest and most established LGBTQ+ populations in the southeastern United States. Between the travel industry and the hospitality economy, a large share of the working population is on evening, overnight, or rotating schedules that no conventional clinic hour accommodates.
Getting care in Fort Lauderdale
Broward residents are frequently referred south into Miami-Dade, adding a cross-county trip through some of the worst traffic in the country to an appointment that was already difficult to schedule. For hospitality and marine workers, the more basic problem is that clinics are open precisely during working hours, and the shifts move. Both groups tend to complete an initial evaluation and then disappear from the follow-up schedule — which reads as disengagement and is almost entirely logistics.
What this means for Fort Lauderdale patients
Income and schedule both swing hard between seasons, and a medication plan has to survive the lean months as well as the busy ones. Planning for that in advance prevents the abrupt discontinuations that seasonal workers otherwise experience every year.
Dosing timing is not a detail for shift workers; it is the whole problem. A medication scheduled for morning means nothing when mornings move every few weeks, and getting the timing wrong is a frequent and avoidable cause of both poor response and unnecessary side effects.
Patients who have already tried several medications elsewhere often arrive discouraged and expecting another trial-and-error cycle. Pharmacogenomic testing can inform selection in these cases, and reviewing the full history of what was tried, at what dose, and for how long usually explains more than the failures suggest.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can you manage my medications by telehealth in Fort Lauderdale?
Yes. Fort Lauderdale patients can have their psychiatric medications evaluated, prescribed, and monitored entirely by secure video.
Do you take insurance?
Willow & Stone is a cash-pay practice and provides superbills you can submit for out-of-network reimbursement.
Can you take over prescribing from another provider?
Often, yes. We'll review your history and current regimen and coordinate a safe transition for Fort Lauderdale patients.
Do you take insurance for medication management in Fort Lauderdale?
Willow & Stone is cash-pay and provides superbills for out-of-network reimbursement — no prior authorizations for Fort Lauderdale patients.
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.
Other Services for Fort Lauderdale
Medication Management in Other Florida Communities
Willow & Stone also provides medication management by telehealth to Miami, and throughout the Broward County.
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If you are experiencing a mental health emergency, call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline) or call 911.