Psychiatric Care in St. Petersburg, FL

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

Mental Health Care for St. Petersburg

St. Petersburg sits across the bay from Tampa and functions as its own market rather than a suburb of one — the bridge between them is the whole story of getting care here.

Willow & Stone brings doctoral-level, integrative psychiatric care to St. Petersburg and the surrounding Pinellas 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 St. Petersburg

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 St. Petersburg residents

St. Petersburg in practice

St. Petersburg occupies the Pinellas peninsula across the bay from Tampa, and treating it as a Tampa suburb misreads it entirely — it is a city of its own with a distinct economy, a large arts and hospitality sector, and a population that skews older than the metro average. The waterfront and downtown have drawn substantial younger professional in-migration over the past decade, so the city now holds two quite different patient groups: long-settled retirees managing late-life mood, cognition, and medication burden, and recent arrivals under housing-cost pressure in a city that has become considerably more expensive than it was.

Getting care in St. Petersburg

The bay is the access problem. An office that looks close on a map is frequently a bridge crossing away, and at the wrong hour that is a forty-minute trip in each direction for a twenty-minute appointment. Pinellas has real medical infrastructure but psychiatric availability concentrates on the Tampa side, so St. Petersburg referrals routinely point across the water. Video visits make the bridge irrelevant, which matters most for the routine medication follow-ups that determine whether a treatment course works.

What St. Petersburg patients need from a psychiatric practice

In a community built around long commutes, the day is fully committed before anyone considers adding an appointment, and healthcare is what gets deferred. Care that costs only the length of the visit — with no travel on either side — is what makes an ongoing treatment plan realistic rather than aspirational.

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 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.

Transparent Cash-Pay Care

Willow & Stone is a direct-pay practice, so St. Petersburg 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, Clearwater.

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.