Medication Management for Southlake Patients
Good psychiatric medication management is far more than writing a prescription. For Southlake patients, Dr. Stacey Forbes, DNP, PMHNP-BC, takes the time to understand your full history, optimize your regimen, and monitor closely — all by secure telehealth.
Who benefits from medication management
- ✓Anyone starting a new psychiatric medication
- ✓People whose current medication isn’t working well
- ✓Those managing side effects or complex regimens
- ✓Patients seeking a second opinion on their medications
- ✓Anyone wanting a root-cause view alongside medication
Our Treatment Approach
Dr. Forbes personalizes medication selection and dosing, monitors response over time, and pairs prescribing with attention to labs, nutrition, and the gut-brain connection. GeneSight pharmacogenomic testing can help guide choices. Southlake patients get longer, unhurried appointments instead of the typical rushed 15-minute visit.
Medication Management in Southlake: the local picture
Southlake is a small, affluent city in northeast Tarrant County built around a highly regarded school district that families relocate specifically to enter. The academic and athletic expectations that come with that are a genuine clinical factor for adolescents here, not a stereotype: perfectionism, performance anxiety, and sleep debt are routine presenting concerns, and they frequently arrive dressed as a request for an ADHD evaluation. Sorting a genuine attention disorder from the effects of sustained pressure and insufficient sleep is the central diagnostic question in many Southlake teen intakes.
Getting care in Southlake
Cost is rarely the obstacle in Southlake — discretion and scheduling are. In a small community where school and social networks overlap almost completely, families are frequently unwilling to be seen entering a local psychiatric practice, and that reluctance delays care more than any waiting list. Teenagers themselves raise it first, and they are usually right that someone would notice. Video visits taken from home remove the visibility problem, and they fit around practice schedules and coursework in a way an afternoon clinic appointment does not. Southlake is also small enough that it has little psychiatric care of its own, so the realistic alternatives sit in Fort Worth or the mid-cities — far enough that a twenty-minute medication follow-up costs most of an evening, which is exactly the appointment families start skipping first.
What this means for Southlake patients
Patients who have already tried several medications elsewhere often arrive discouraged and expecting another trial-and-error cycle. Pharmacogenomic testing can inform selection in these cases, and reviewing the full history of what was tried, at what dose, and for how long usually explains more than the failures suggest.
Medication questions in family communities frequently involve pregnancy, breastfeeding, or a family history that shapes what is appropriate. These deserve a real discussion of risk and benefit rather than a reflexive avoidance that leaves a parent untreated.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can you manage my medications by telehealth in Southlake?
Yes. Southlake patients can have their psychiatric medications evaluated, prescribed, and monitored entirely by secure video.
Do you take insurance?
Willow & Stone is a cash-pay practice and provides superbills you can submit for out-of-network reimbursement.
Can you take over prescribing from another provider?
Often, yes. We'll review your history and current regimen and coordinate a safe transition for Southlake patients.
Do you take insurance for medication management in Southlake?
Willow & Stone is cash-pay and provides superbills for out-of-network reimbursement — no prior authorizations for Southlake patients.
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.
Medication Management in Nearby Communities
Willow & Stone also provides medication management by telehealth to Keller, Fort Worth, and throughout the Tarrant County.
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