Psychiatric Care in Orlando, FL

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

Mental Health Care for Orlando

Orlando runs on shift work — hospitality, theme parks, healthcare — alongside a large university population. That is precisely the schedule conventional nine-to-five psychiatry serves worst. Virtual visits fit around a rotating roster instead of competing with it.

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

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 Orlando residents

Orlando in practice

Orlando runs on shift work to a degree few American cities do — hospitality, theme parks, and healthcare employ an enormous share of the metro on evenings, nights, weekends, and rotating schedules. The University of Central Florida adds one of the country's largest student populations on top of that. This is precisely the schedule that conventional nine-to-five psychiatry serves worst, and the mismatch is the single biggest reason mental health care goes unused here: not cost, not stigma, but the fact that the clinic is open exactly when the patient is at work.

Getting care in Orlando

A theme park or hospital employee on a rotating roster cannot hold a standing Tuesday afternoon appointment, and the appointment is what gets dropped when the roster changes. Students face a different version of the same problem, with a calendar that empties the city twice a year and breaks continuity each time. Video visits scheduled around a rotation — and continued through a semester break without transferring providers — are what make ongoing medication management realistic for both groups.

What Orlando 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.

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.

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.

Transparent Cash-Pay Care

Willow & Stone is a direct-pay practice, so Orlando 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 Tampa, Jacksonville.

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.