Psychiatric Care in Naples, FL

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

Mental Health Care for Naples

Naples is small, extremely affluent, and heavily seasonal — its population and its waiting lists both roughly double between December and April.

Willow & Stone brings doctoral-level, integrative psychiatric care to Naples 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 Naples

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 Naples residents

Naples in practice

Naples is small, extremely affluent, and among the most seasonal communities in Florida — its population roughly doubles between December and April. The year-round population skews notably older and wealthier than almost anywhere else in the country, while the workforce that supports it, much of it Spanish-speaking and living inland toward Immokalee, faces an entirely different set of circumstances within the same county. Both are Collier County patients, and they arrive with almost nothing in common clinically.

Getting care in Naples

Naples has good medical services for its size and they are overwhelmingly configured around the season: availability tightens sharply in winter, which is when the part-year population is present and wanting to be seen. Patients who split the year between Naples and a northern address routinely lose continuity every time they move, restarting with a new prescriber twice a year. Telehealth holds that relationship for as long as the patient is physically in Florida, which is the specific problem seasonal residents have.

What Naples patients need from a psychiatric practice

A community weighted toward older residents needs a psychiatric practice that takes late-life presentations seriously rather than filing them under ageing. Depression that shows up as physical complaints, cognitive concerns that may be medication-related, bereavement, and the loss of independence that follows giving up driving are all treatable, and all routinely dismissed. It also needs a practice willing to review a long existing medication list rather than simply adding to it.

In affluent, tightly networked communities the barrier is rarely cost — it is availability and discretion. Being seen entering a local psychiatric practice carries a social cost that families weigh seriously, and teenagers raise it first. Care taken privately from home removes a concern that no amount of tact at a physical office fully resolves.

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 Naples 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 Cape Coral.

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.