Mental Health Care for Miami
Miami is dense, international, and tightly networked — and for many patients privacy is the deciding factor, because being seen walking into a psychiatric office in your own neighborhood is its own barrier. A secure video visit removes that, along with the cross-causeway traffic that turns a twenty-minute drive into an hour.
Willow & Stone brings doctoral-level, integrative psychiatric care to Miami and the surrounding Miami-Dade 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 Miami
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 Miami residents
Miami in practice
Miami is dense, international, and tightly networked, and privacy is a decisive factor for many patients here in a way it is not everywhere. Being seen entering a psychiatric office in your own neighborhood carries a genuine social cost in communities where everyone's networks overlap. The city is also substantially bilingual, with large Cuban, Venezuelan, Colombian, Haitian, and other populations, and language concordance is a clinical requirement rather than a convenience. Hospitality and service industries staff evenings, nights, and weekends across the metro.
Getting care in Miami
Traffic and the causeway geography make cross-town appointments expensive in time in a way that is difficult to appreciate from outside the city — a twenty-minute distance is routinely an hour's trip. Service-industry schedules put work squarely in the hours clinics are open. And for patients who want their psychiatric care to remain genuinely private, a video visit taken from home resolves a concern that no amount of discretion at a physical office fully addresses.
What Miami patients need from a psychiatric practice
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 bilingual communities, language concordance is a clinical requirement rather than a courtesy — psychiatric assessment depends almost entirely on nuance in how someone describes their own experience. Care conducted in a patient's second language, or summarised through a family member, risks getting the answer wrong in either direction.
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.
Transparent Cash-Pay Care
Willow & Stone is a direct-pay practice, so Miami 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Willow & Stone accept patients from Miami, FL?
Yes. Dr. Stacey Forbes, DNP, PMHNP-BC, provides telehealth psychiatric care to patients located in Miami and throughout Florida.
Do I have to travel to be seen?
No — most care is delivered by secure video, so Miami patients are seen from home. Our Arlington, TX office is also available for in-person visits.
What services do you offer Miami 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 Miami?
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.