Psychiatric Care in Wasilla, AK

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

Mental Health Care for Wasilla

Wasilla anchors the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, the fastest-growing part of Alaska, where families priced out of Anchorage now commute an hour each way along a single highway.

Willow & Stone brings doctoral-level, integrative psychiatric care to Wasilla and the surrounding Matanuska-Susitna 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 Wasilla

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 Wasilla residents

Wasilla in practice

Wasilla anchors the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, which has been the fastest-growing part of Alaska for years as families priced out of Anchorage moved north into the valley. Most working residents now commute an hour or more each way to Anchorage along a single highway, in conditions that for much of the year include darkness and ice. The borough skews young and family-heavy, which drives steady demand for adolescent evaluation, and it has long carried some of the more difficult behavioural health outcomes in the state — a combination of rapid growth, long commutes, and services that have not kept pace.

Getting care in Wasilla

Mat-Su has grown far faster than its local medical infrastructure, so most specialty referrals point back down the highway to Anchorage — adding a second long drive to a day that already includes the commute. For routine medication follow-ups, that trip is wildly disproportionate to a twenty-minute appointment, and it is the visit families quietly stop making. Winter road conditions on the Glenn Highway make the trip genuinely unsafe on some days, which turns a scheduling problem into a safety one.

What Wasilla 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.

Fast-growing family communities generate adolescent psychiatric demand faster than local capacity expands to meet it, and waiting months for an evaluation is genuinely costly at an age where a school year is a long time. Families here also need appointment times that do not require pulling a teenager out of school for every routine follow-up.

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 Wasilla 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, Kenai.

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.