Mental Health Care for Gainesville
Gainesville is built around the University of Florida and its academic medical center, which makes it a research town surrounded by rural North Central Florida.
Willow & Stone brings doctoral-level, integrative psychiatric care to Gainesville 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 Gainesville
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 Gainesville residents
Gainesville in practice
Gainesville is built around the University of Florida and its academic medical center, giving a city of modest size an unusually large concentration of students, researchers, and clinical staff. That produces two distinct clinical populations. Students arrive for first-episode anxiety and depression and for first-time ADHD evaluation, often having managed until the structure of secondary school disappeared. Faculty and research staff arrive having read the literature and wanting to discuss mechanism and evidence. Around both sits rural North Central Florida, which looks to Gainesville for anything it cannot provide locally.
Getting care in Gainesville
The presence of a major academic medical center is misleading about access: its psychiatric services carry regional referrals and research commitments, and routine outpatient availability is not what an outsider would expect from a city with a teaching hospital. Students cycle out of care every summer, and rural patients drive in from counties away for appointments that last twenty minutes. Video visits keep the student's treatment continuous and spare the rural patient the trip.
What Gainesville patients need from a psychiatric practice
A student population needs psychiatric care that survives the academic calendar. Campus services are built for short-term support and rarely provide ongoing medication management, and the handoff between them and an outside prescriber is where treatment most often lapses. Continuity across semesters and summers matters more here than proximity to campus.
Technical and professional patients tend to arrive having researched extensively, wanting to understand mechanism and evidence rather than receive a prescription. That suits a longer evaluation and frustrates a short medication check — and the mismatch drives people away from psychiatry altogether rather than to a different provider.
Where the nearest psychiatric specialist is an hour or more away, the practical consequence is not slower care but absent care — particularly for the short, frequent follow-ups that medication management depends on. A practice serving this kind of community has to make routine contact cheap in time, or the treatment plan quietly becomes an evaluation and nothing after it.
Transparent Cash-Pay Care
Willow & Stone is a direct-pay practice, so Gainesville 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 Ocala.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Willow & Stone accept patients from Gainesville, FL?
Yes. Dr. Stacey Forbes, DNP, PMHNP-BC, provides telehealth psychiatric care to patients located in Gainesville and throughout Florida.
Do I have to travel to be seen?
No — most care is delivered by secure video, so Gainesville patients are seen from home. Our Arlington, TX office is also available for in-person visits.
What services do you offer Gainesville patients?
ADHD Treatment, Teen & Adolescent Psychiatry, Depression Treatment, and Medication Management. Telepsychiatry, GeneSight pharmacogenomic testing, and integrative psychiatric evaluation are also available to patients throughout Florida.
Do you take insurance?
We are a cash-pay practice and provide superbills for possible out-of-network reimbursement — no prior authorizations or referrals required.
How do I get started in Gainesville?
Book a telehealth consultation online or call (469) 726-3768. Your first visit is a comprehensive intake with Dr. Forbes.
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.
Your healing begins with a conversation.
Start with a cash-pay telehealth consultation — no insurance, no prior authorizations, no waitlists.
Schedule Your ConsultationOr call (469) 726-3768
If you are experiencing a mental health emergency, call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline) or call 911.