Mental Health Care for Sitka
Sitka sits on an island in Southeast Alaska, reachable only by air or water, and serves as a regional medical hub for communities even smaller and more remote than itself.
Willow & Stone brings doctoral-level, integrative psychiatric care to Sitka 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.
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 Sitka residents
Sitka in practice
Sitka sits on Baranof Island in Southeast Alaska, reachable only by air or ferry, and functions as a regional medical hub for communities considerably smaller and more remote than itself. It has a large Alaska Native population, with deep Tlingit roots in the community, and the region's health system reflects that. As in much of Southeast, the winter is not so much dark as persistently grey and wet, and the isolation of an island community is protective for some patients and corrosive for others — telling those apart is a real part of the clinical work here.
Getting care in Sitka
Everything that Sitka cannot provide locally requires a flight, and Southeast Alaska weather cancels flights routinely. That makes any referral off-island expensive, uncertain, and easy to abandon. For a community that serves as the regional hub, the more common problem is not that Sitka lacks services but that its services are stretched across a catchment reachable only by air. Video visits remove the flight from the appointment entirely, which is the single largest practical barrier to consistent psychiatric care in this part of the state.
What Sitka 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.
Psychiatric care in and around Native communities works best when it accounts for community and family context rather than treating the individual in isolation, and when it sits alongside traditional practices instead of competing with them. Care that ignores either is generally care a patient does not return to.
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 Sitka 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 Juneau.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Willow & Stone accept patients from Sitka, AK?
Yes. Dr. Stacey Forbes, DNP, PMHNP-BC, provides telehealth psychiatric care to patients located in Sitka and throughout Alaska.
Do I have to travel to be seen?
No — most care is delivered by secure video, so Sitka patients are seen from home. Our Arlington, TX office is also available for in-person visits.
What services do you offer Sitka patients?
ADHD Treatment, and Depression Treatment. 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 Sitka?
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.