Margot Krahn, PMHNP-BC
Psychiatry, including children 5-17 and geriatric psychiatry
Video visits across Florida · in person in Wesley Chapel
Apollo Beach residents · Florida telehealth (video)
Online Child & Teen Psychiatry for Apollo Beach, FL residents
Child and teen psychiatry by secure video for Apollo Beach residents, with Margot Krahn, PMHNP-BC. No drive and no waiting room.
- Video visits from home
- For Florida residents
- Many major plans + self-pay
You’ll see Margot Krahn, PMHNP-BC.
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- See open times onlinePick a time on your clinician’s Zocdoc calendar in a few clicks.
- No drive from Apollo BeachSkip the 40-minute drive to Wesley Chapel. Join from a phone or laptop, anywhere in Florida.
- A callback within one business dayPrefer to talk it through first? Send the form and a care coordinator calls you back, usually within one business day.
Quick answer
Margot Krahn, PMHNP-BC sees Apollo Beach residents by secure Florida telehealth from our Wesley Chapel office, with open times on her Zocdoc calendar below or by callback. If you would rather be seen in person, our Wesley Chapel office is about 40 minutes from Apollo Beach. Ascend has no Apollo Beach office. Telehealth visits are for Florida residents. We work with many major commercial plans and offer self-pay options. Coverage varies by plan and service. Our team will confirm with you.
Book with your clinician
The clinician who will see you.
Booking opens the clinician’s Zocdoc calendar in a new tab, set to new-patient video visits. Prefer to talk to someone first? Use the form and a care coordinator will call you.
How a video visit works
Four steps from booking to a plan you can follow, without leaving Apollo Beach.
Book online or ask for a call
Pick a time on Zocdoc, or send the form and a care coordinator calls you back, usually within one business day.
Get your secure link
Before the visit you receive a secure video link. Join from a phone, tablet or laptop, from a private spot in Florida.
A first visit for your child
Margot Krahn, PMHNP-BC, meets with you and your child by video and hears from both of you. First visits run about sixty minutes.
A plan for home and school
Treatment may include medication, therapy or both, with video follow-ups that check how things are going at home and at school.
Where Apollo Beach patients are seen
Most Apollo Beach patients choose video. If you would rather sit in the room, our Wesley Chapel office is about 40 minutes away.
Recommended for Apollo Beach
By video, from home
- Skip the drive: Wesley Chapel is about 40 minutes from Apollo Beach
- The same child and teen psychiatry team that sees patients in Wesley Chapel
- For Florida residents, on a phone or laptop
Serving Apollo Beach, Hillsborough County
- 33572
Prefer in person?
Our Wesley Chapel office
Ascend Mind and Body of Wesley Chapel27724 Cashford Cir Ste 102
Wesley Chapel, FL 33544
About 40 min from Apollo Beach by car via I-75 N, outside rush hour
For Apollo Beach families
Hillsborough County: school and records for parents.
School
Public schools in Apollo Beach are part of Hillsborough County Public Schools. If school is part of the picture, bring what the school has produced, such as a Section 504 plan or an IEP, teacher comments and attendance records, to the first visit.
Records from the pediatrician
Ask your child’s pediatrician to send recent records and a list of current medicines before the first visit, so the evaluation starts from the full picture.
What child and teen psychiatry can help with
Apollo Beach and SouthShore families: school requests, nearby ERs and care without the long drive north
Apollo Beach sits on the bay at the south end of Hillsborough County, with North Ruskin inside it, Gibsonton to the north, Ruskin to the south and Sun City Center off to the southeast. Our Wesley Chapel office is about 40 minutes and close to 36 miles up I-75 N from the center of Apollo Beach, measured outside rush hour; Big Bend Road meets the interstate at exit 246. That is a long round trip for a follow-up check-in, so for SouthShore families we suggest video as the usual format, from the first evaluation with Margot Krahn, PMHNP-BC through the follow-ups. Your child can sign on from home after school instead of spending the afternoon on US 41 and I-75.
Your child's Hillsborough school. A pediatrician's referral that says ADHD, anxiety or behavior often arrives alongside a concern from school. The Hillsborough County Public Schools parent guide (2025) lets a parent ask the school, verbally or in writing, to consider an initial evaluation for a suspected disability, and it gives the district 30 calendar days from that request to hold a Child Study Team meeting. When the concern is about mental health, the district's route is the Student Services team at your child's school: the school counselor, the school nurse, the school psychologist and the school social worker. If you sign a release, we send that team a summary of our findings and recommendations, and we copy the pediatrician who referred you.
Emergency care near the SouthShore. There is no hospital inside Apollo Beach itself. The two closest emergency departments, each about 4 miles away in a straight line from the center of town, are:
- BayCare St. Joseph's Hospital-South in Riverview, the nearest dedicated children's ER to Apollo Beach
- HCA Florida South Shore Hospital, which has a Sun City Center address and lists 24/7 emergency care
The nearest children's hospital is Muma Children's Hospital at TGH in Tampa. For a young person in a mental health crisis, Hillsborough's Mobile Response Team is run by Ibis Healthcare, and 988 (call or text) is the way to reach crisis help day or night, with 911 for any danger that cannot wait. Ascend Mind and Body provides scheduled outpatient care and does not replace any of these.
Labs and parent support. Neither Quest nor Labcorp lists an Apollo Beach location. If bloodwork is ever part of a plan, the nearest listed sites are a Quest location on State Road 674 under Ruskin, Quest and Labcorp locations listed under Riverview and a Labcorp location listed under Sun City Center. Parents looking for others who have been through the same questions can start with NAMI Hillsborough, the county's affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
If the pediatrician's note says "please evaluate," the next step is simple: book a first video visit or ask for a callback. You can also read about how child and adolescent psychiatry works at Ascend Mind and Body.
Insurance and cost
Insurance
We work with many major commercial plans and offer self-pay options. Coverage varies by plan and service. Our team will confirm with you.
Before your first visit
Insurance questions go to our care team, who confirm your coverage with you before your first visit.
Questions about cost?
Call (813) 670-3005 or read how insurance works here.
Child and teen psychiatry for Apollo Beach residents, in depth
The longer answers, one topic at a time.
Apollo Beach: the referral slip from the pediatrician
Apollo Beach, Waterset, MiraBay and the rest of the SouthShore corridor have filled with young families faster than child psychiatric capacity has followed them down US-41. The practical result is that most families who reach us from here start the same way: a pediatrician at a well visit heard something that concerned them, handed over a referral, and the parent went home with a piece of paper and a list of practices that are not taking new patients. The referral itself is usually short. "Rule out ADHD." "Anxiety, please evaluate." "Behavior concerns, 8-year-old." The question behind it is longer, and that is what the first visit is for.
We take pediatric referrals seriously because pediatricians see a lot of children and know what ordinary looks like. When one of them says this is not ordinary, it usually is not. What they generally cannot do inside a fifteen-minute visit is sort out which of several explanations fits, and that sorting is the job.
What a child psychiatric evaluation adds to a pediatric visit
Time, mostly, and a different kind of history. The first appointment runs sixty minutes. We take a developmental history from birth forward, a school history, a sleep history, and a family history, because attention, anxiety and mood problems all run in families. We ask what changed and when; a problem that has been present since preschool points somewhere different from one that started in second grade after a move. We screen for depression and for safety concerns every time, at every age, regardless of the referral question.
We also ask for what already exists. Teacher comments, report cards, any screening form the pediatrician already ran, a 504 plan or IEP, prior testing. Parent and teacher rating scales are useful when they add something, and we send them out when they do, but a scale is a data point rather than a diagnosis. A child can score high on an attention screen because they are anxious, because they are not sleeping, or because they are eight and the class is boring. The evaluation is what separates those.
Ages six to twelve: separating temperament, environment and disorder
A large share of SouthShore referrals are for children between six and twelve, and this age range has a particular trap. Big emotions, short attention, and resistance to boring tasks are all developmentally normal in some measure. The question is never whether a child has them; it is whether they are out of proportion to age, show up in more than one setting, and cost the child something real, such as friendships, learning, or sleep. A child who is a handful at home and fine at Apollo Beach Elementary is telling us something different from a child who struggles in both places.
Environment matters too, and we ask about it without blame. A new sibling, a parent working rotating shifts at the port or the power plant, a move into a new subdivision where the child knows nobody yet. None of those cause a disorder, but each can turn up the volume on one, and a plan that ignores them is incomplete.
Sharing the plan with your pediatrician and the school
A first visit ends with an explanation of what we think is going on and a plan. With your permission, we send that plan back to the pediatrician who referred you, so the medical home stays whole. Medication is one option among several, discussed on its own merits when it fits the picture, and never the automatic first move. For many six- to nine-year-olds the plan starts with parent guidance, a sleep schedule, and school-side changes before any prescription is considered. Individual results vary, and we say so.
For the school, we provide documentation of a diagnosis, treatment history, and the accommodations we recommend. Whether the school implements a 504 plan or opens an IEP evaluation is the school’s decision under its own process; a clinician’s letter is one input to it. We tell families which conversation to ask for so they are not discovering the difference after the meeting.
How Apollo Beach families are seen
Apollo Beach, Ruskin and Sun City Center are served by HIPAA-secure telehealth. We do not have an office on the SouthShore, and we would rather say that here than after you call. Video visits cover the evaluation, anxiety and depression treatment, behavior and sleep follow-up, parent guidance, and ongoing non-stimulant attention care. One category of visit cannot be done by video: a first prescription for a stimulant medication requires an in-person evaluation under our prescribing policy. That visit happens at our Wesley Chapel office, about 40 minutes up I-75, outside rush hour, and it is usually a single appointment with care continuing by video afterward.
Care for Apollo Beach families is part of our child and adolescent psychiatry in Florida. Visits that have to happen face to face are held at our Wesley Chapel office, the home of in-person child psychiatry in Wesley Chapel, and the rest can run through child psychiatry by telehealth. Families on the Riverview side of Big Bend Road can also read about child psychiatry in Riverview, and adults in the household can start with psychiatry in Apollo Beach.
Common questions
Our pediatrician already started a medication. Can you take over?
Usually, yes. Bring the current prescription, the dose history, and anything the pediatrician documented, and we will start with a full evaluation rather than a refill. Sometimes the plan continues unchanged; sometimes the evaluation points at a different explanation. If the medication is a stimulant, Florida rules may require an in-person visit before we prescribe it.
Do we need a referral to be seen?
No. Many Apollo Beach families arrive with one, and we use it, but a parent can call directly. If you have a referral, the pediatrician’s note is helpful and we send our plan back to them with your permission.
Do you have an office in Apollo Beach or Ruskin?
No. Ascend has offices in Tampa (Carrollwood), Wesley Chapel, and Lakeland. SouthShore families are served by HIPAA-secure Florida telehealth. If a visit has to happen face to face, it is scheduled at the Wesley Chapel office.
Who is in the room for a seven-year-old’s visit?
The parent, for most of it. With younger children the first visit is largely a parent interview plus time with the child, and the child does not need to sit still for an hour. For older children we spend part of the visit with the child alone when they are willing.
What should we bring to the first appointment?
Report cards, any teacher comments or school screening forms, the pediatrician’s referral and any growth or sleep notes, prior testing, a current medication list, and a 504 plan or IEP if one exists. If you have none of that, come anyway; the history we take covers most of it.
Do you take insurance?
We work with many major commercial plans and offer self-pay options. Coverage varies by plan and service. Our team will confirm with you.
How quickly can an Apollo Beach child get a first visit, and what if things get worse before then?
Use the booking button to see Margot Krahn, PMHNP-BC's open new-patient video times on Zocdoc yourself, with no phone tag. A pediatrician's referral is welcome but not required. If you would rather speak to a person first, the form brings a call from a care coordinator, usually within one business day. If your child becomes unsafe in the meantime, do not wait for the appointment: call or text 988, call 911 for immediate danger, or go to St. Joseph's Hospital-South in Riverview, the nearest dedicated children's ER to Apollo Beach.
Can we ask our Hillsborough school for an evaluation before the first visit with you?
Yes, and either order works. Hillsborough County Public Schools' 2025 parent guide says a parent can ask the school, verbally or in writing, to consider an initial evaluation for a suspected disability, and a Child Study Team meeting has to follow within 30 calendar days. For a mental health concern, the Student Services team at the school is the place to start. Whatever the school produces, such as meeting notes or screening results, is useful to bring to the first visit.
Where can my child get bloodwork near Apollo Beach if a medication needs it?
Not every child needs lab work, but some medications call for it. Neither Quest nor Labcorp lists a location in Apollo Beach. The nearest listed options are a Quest location on State Road 674 under Ruskin, Quest and Labcorp locations under Riverview, and a Labcorp location under Sun City Center. If labs are ever ordered, tell the care team which of those sites is easiest for your family to reach.
What ages do you see for child and teen psychiatry?
Margot Krahn, PMHNP-BC sees children from age 5 and teenagers up to 17, so SouthShore middle and high schoolers are seen as well as the grade-schoolers who arrive with a pediatrician's note. Because she treats adults too, a teenager does not have to start over with someone new at 18. For a child under five, a developmental or learning question is usually better approached through psychological testing first, and the care team can walk you through that option.
The referral from our pediatrician says child psychiatrist. Is a psychiatric nurse practitioner the same thing?
Not the same title, although the day-to-day work overlaps a great deal. A child psychiatrist is a physician (MD or DO). Margot Krahn is a board-certified psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner and Florida-licensed APRN with 12 years in practice, trained to care for patients from childhood on. For an Apollo Beach family that means one clinician who takes the history, makes the diagnosis, explains the options and, when medication fits, prescribes it and follows up by video.
Do you do testing for learning or developmental problems?
Margot Krahn's evaluation is a psychiatric one, built on history, rating scales, school records and time with your child. When a question needs formal testing, such as a possible learning disability or an attention profile that does not add up, Ascend Mind and Body has a psychologist for that. Dr. Richard M. Marshall, Ed.D., Ph.D. offers psychological and neuropsychological testing for ages 1 through adulthood. Psychological testing with Dr. Marshall is available by telehealth across Florida, and any in-person testing happens at the Lakeland office.
Who do I call in a mental health crisis in south Hillsborough?
For a young person, Hillsborough County's Mobile Response Team is run by Ibis Healthcare, the group that took over from Gracepoint Wellness and COVE Behavioral Health, and 988 by call or text is the way in at any hour. If a life is in danger, call 911. For a child who needs an emergency room, St. Joseph's Hospital-South in Riverview is the nearest dedicated children's ER to Apollo Beach. Ascend Mind and Body is outpatient care and cannot respond to emergencies.
Ready when you are.
Book a video visit online, or send a request and a care coordinator will call you back. Insurance questions go to our care team, who confirm your coverage with you before your first visit.