Justin Forbes, M.D.
General Psychiatrist
Justin Forbes, M.D. is board-certified in General Psychiatry and treats patients ranging from adolescents to the elderly, both in-person and via telehealth. He earned his medical degree from the Florida State University College of Medicine at the Pensacola Regional Medical School Campus. Subsequently, he completed his residency training in psychiatry at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in partnership with the Birmingham VA Medical Center.
Prior to accepting a position at Psychological Associates, P.A., he worked as an outpatient psychiatrist at the Pensacola VA Clinic and in a variety of other settings, including inpatient psychiatry, residential addiction treatment, and consult-liaison psychiatry in the State of Alaska. Before medical school, Dr. Forbes earned a nursing degree from the University of Central Florida and worked for over eight years as a Registered Nurse (RN) in several different specialties, including inpatient psychiatry, intensive care, and the cardiac cath. lab.
Dr. Forbes is fully licensed to practice medicine in the states of Florida, Alabama, and Alaska. He specializes in psychiatric medication management for depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, ADHD, insomnia, PTSD, bipolar spectrum disorders, and addiction. Furthermore, he enjoys providing medication management services for a variety of other mental disorders, obesity, anger issues, and sexual dysfunction. Other clinical interests include alternative psychiatry, holistic or integrative psychiatry, personalized psychiatry, evidence-based medicine, neuromodulation, and other cutting-edge or innovative treatments in the field of psychiatry.
Dr. Forbes is a Florida native, born and raised in Panama City, Florida and currently lives in Pensacola with his family.