Mental Health Care for Pensacola
Pensacola sits at the far western end of the Panhandle, closer to three other state capitals than to its own, with Naval Air Station Pensacola at the center of local life.
Willow & Stone brings doctoral-level, integrative psychiatric care to Pensacola 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.
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 Pensacola residents
Pensacola in practice
Pensacola sits at the far western end of the Panhandle, closer to Mobile and New Orleans than to most of Florida, with Naval Air Station Pensacola — the Navy's primary flight training base — at the center of local life. Active-duty personnel, trainees, retired military, and military families are a substantial and permanent part of the population. Around the base sits a beach and hospitality economy that is intensely seasonal, and a region with real, recurring hurricane exposure along the Gulf coast.
Getting care in Pensacola
Pensacola's isolation from the rest of Florida is the defining access fact: specialty referrals that would be routine elsewhere in the state mean a very long drive. Military families face the additional and predictable break of a permanent change of station ending a care relationship partway through treatment, and trainees rotate through on fixed schedules. Video visits keep a Florida-licensed clinician available for as long as the patient is in Florida, without assuming the rest of the state is reachable.
What Pensacola patients need from a psychiatric practice
Military and veteran families need a practice that understands deployment cycles, frequent relocation, and the particular strain both place on spouses and children — and that will talk plainly about how treatment interacts with duty and clearance concerns rather than leaving them unspoken. Those concerns are frequently based on outdated assumptions, and leaving them unaddressed is what stops people from starting.
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.
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.
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 Pensacola 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 Tallahassee.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Willow & Stone accept patients from Pensacola, FL?
Yes. Dr. Stacey Forbes, DNP, PMHNP-BC, provides telehealth psychiatric care to patients located in Pensacola and throughout Florida.
Do I have to travel to be seen?
No — most care is delivered by secure video, so Pensacola patients are seen from home. Our Arlington, TX office is also available for in-person visits.
What services do you offer Pensacola patients?
ADHD Treatment, and Depression Treatment. 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 Pensacola?
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.