Psychiatric Care in Fairbanks, AK

Integrative, cash-pay telepsychiatry for Fairbanks — from the comfort of home.

Mental Health Care for Fairbanks

Fairbanks sits in the Interior, where the daylight swing is the most extreme of any American city and winter routinely runs far below zero for weeks at a time.

Willow & Stone brings doctoral-level, integrative psychiatric care to Fairbanks and the surrounding Fairbanks North Star Borough area 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 Fairbanks

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 Fairbanks residents

Fairbanks in practice

Fairbanks sits in the Interior, where the annual light swing is the most extreme of any city in the United States — near-continuous daylight at midsummer and only a few hours of it around the solstice — and where winter temperatures stay far below zero for weeks. Eielson Air Force Base and Fort Wainwright make the military presence substantial, and the University of Alaska Fairbanks adds a student and research population. Between the light cycle, the cold, and the isolation of a city several hundred road miles from anywhere comparable, seasonal patterns in mood and sleep are not a subtlety here; they are frequently the presenting problem.

Getting care in Fairbanks

Fairbanks is the service center for the entire Interior, so its limited psychiatric capacity is absorbing demand from an area larger than most states, including communities reachable only by air. Winter itself is an access barrier — a routine follow-up appointment in January can mean driving in deep cold and darkness, and it is the first thing to be cancelled. Military families face the additional and predictable break of a permanent change of station ending a care relationship partway through treatment.

What Fairbanks 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.

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.

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 Fairbanks 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 Alaska Communities We Serve

Willow & Stone also provides telehealth psychiatry to Anchorage.

Frequently Asked Questions

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.