Mental Health Care for Anchorage
Anchorage holds roughly 40% of Alaska's population and nearly all of its specialty medical capacity, which makes it both the best-served place in the state and the one absorbing everyone else's demand.
Willow & Stone brings doctoral-level, integrative psychiatric care to Anchorage 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 Anchorage
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 Anchorage residents
Anchorage in practice
Anchorage holds roughly two in five Alaskans and very nearly all of the state's specialty medical capacity, which makes it simultaneously the best-served community in Alaska and the one absorbing everybody else's unmet demand. Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson puts a large active-duty, veteran, and military-family population inside the city, and Anchorage is also home to the largest urban Alaska Native population in the state, with people who have relocated from villages across a landmass a fifth the size of the Lower 48. The result is a psychiatric caseload that spans deployment-related trauma, the strain of relocation far from a home community, and the ordinary presentations of a mid-sized American city.
Getting care in Anchorage
Anchorage residents are the least badly served in Alaska and still face long waits, because the city's providers are carrying referrals from the entire state. For patients elsewhere, "the psychiatrist is in Anchorage" means a flight, an overnight stay, and a day of travel on either side — and weather can cancel the whole trip on the morning of the appointment. Within the city, the bowl's geography and winter road conditions make a cross-town appointment considerably more expensive in time than the distance suggests.
What Anchorage patients need from a psychiatric practice
Alaska's daylight swings further across the year than anywhere else in the United States, and that is a clinical fact rather than a scenic one. Seasonal change in mood, sleep, and energy has to be part of the evaluation from the start — not an afterthought once a medication has failed to work through a winter. A practice serving Alaska also has to plan around distance and weather: care that depends on reliably reaching a clinic is care that stops for part of the year.
Military and veteran families need a practice that understands deployment cycles, frequent relocation, and the particular strain both place on spouses and children — and that will talk plainly about how treatment interacts with duty and clearance concerns rather than leaving them unspoken. Those concerns are frequently based on outdated assumptions, and leaving them unaddressed is what stops people from starting.
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.
Appointments in your time zone
Willow & Stone keeps Central Time hours, and Alaska Time runs three hours behind that — so the schedule opens at 7AM and closes at 3PM Alaska time. Confirm your slot in Alaska time when you book so nothing is lost in the conversion.
Transparent Cash-Pay Care
Willow & Stone is a direct-pay practice, so Anchorage 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Willow & Stone accept patients from Anchorage, AK?
Yes. Dr. Stacey Forbes, DNP, PMHNP-BC, provides telehealth psychiatric care to patients located in Anchorage and throughout Alaska.
Do I have to travel to be seen?
No — most care is delivered by secure video, so Anchorage patients are seen from home. Our Arlington, TX office is also available for in-person visits.
What services do you offer Anchorage 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 Alaska.
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 Anchorage?
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.