Mental Health Care for Tallahassee
Tallahassee is the state capital and a two-university town, and it is also the medical center for a large rural stretch of the Panhandle and South Georgia.
Willow & Stone brings doctoral-level, integrative psychiatric care to Tallahassee 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 Tallahassee
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 Tallahassee residents
Tallahassee in practice
Tallahassee is the state capital and home to both Florida State University and Florida A&M, which gives it a large student population alongside a stable public-sector workforce. It is also the regional medical center for a wide rural catchment reaching across the Panhandle and into South Georgia, so its specialty services absorb demand from well beyond the city. Politically and academically it is a busy place; geographically it is closer to Atlanta than to Miami, and that isolation from the rest of Florida shapes what care is realistically available.
Getting care in Tallahassee
Because Tallahassee serves as the hub for a large rural region, its psychiatric capacity is stretched across a catchment far bigger than the city, and local residents wait alongside patients driving in from several counties away. Students face the separate problem of a calendar that empties the city twice a year and breaks continuity each time. Telehealth solves both: rural patients stop making the drive, and students keep the same prescriber across semesters and summers instead of restarting.
What Tallahassee patients need from a psychiatric practice
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.
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.
Fast-growing family communities generate adolescent psychiatric demand faster than local capacity expands to meet it, and waiting months for an evaluation is genuinely costly at an age where a school year is a long time. Families here also need appointment times that do not require pulling a teenager out of school for every routine follow-up.
Transparent Cash-Pay Care
Willow & Stone is a direct-pay practice, so Tallahassee 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 Pensacola.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Willow & Stone accept patients from Tallahassee, FL?
Yes. Dr. Stacey Forbes, DNP, PMHNP-BC, provides telehealth psychiatric care to patients located in Tallahassee and throughout Florida.
Do I have to travel to be seen?
No — most care is delivered by secure video, so Tallahassee patients are seen from home. Our Arlington, TX office is also available for in-person visits.
What services do you offer Tallahassee 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 Tallahassee?
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.