Mental Health Care for Juneau
Juneau is the only US state capital with no road connection to the rest of its state — every arrival and departure is a flight or a ferry, including for medical care.
Willow & Stone brings doctoral-level, integrative psychiatric care to Juneau 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 Juneau
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 Juneau residents
Juneau in practice
Juneau is the only state capital in the country with no road connection to the rest of its state: everything and everyone arrives by air or water. It combines a stable year-round population of state government employees with a summer economy built on cruise ship tourism, so the city's size and rhythm change dramatically between seasons. Southeast Alaska's weather adds persistent cloud and rain to an already short winter day, and the combination of limited light, geographic confinement, and a population that swells and empties each year gives seasonal mood patterns a particular character here.
Getting care in Juneau
Because Juneau is off the road system, a referral to Anchorage is a flight — with the cost, the overnight stay, and the weather risk that implies. Flights cancel, and a cancelled flight is a cancelled appointment that may not be rebookable for weeks. That makes local capacity disproportionately important and its limits disproportionately costly. Telehealth is not a convenience in Juneau; it is the difference between seeing a psychiatric specialist regularly and seeing one when travel and weather happen to allow it.
What Juneau 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.
Where the nearest psychiatric specialist is an hour or more away, the practical consequence is not slower care but absent care — particularly for the short, frequent follow-ups that medication management depends on. A practice serving this kind of community has to make routine contact cheap in time, or the treatment plan quietly becomes an evaluation and nothing after it.
Seasonal economies produce predictable annual swings in work, income, and daylight, and mood tracks all three. A practice serving this kind of community needs to evaluate patterns across the whole year rather than at one point in it, and to build treatment plans that survive the lean months as well as the busy ones.
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 Juneau 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 Sitka.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Willow & Stone accept patients from Juneau, AK?
Yes. Dr. Stacey Forbes, DNP, PMHNP-BC, provides telehealth psychiatric care to patients located in Juneau and throughout Alaska.
Do I have to travel to be seen?
No — most care is delivered by secure video, so Juneau patients are seen from home. Our Arlington, TX office is also available for in-person visits.
What services do you offer Juneau 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 Juneau?
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.