Mental Health Care for Glendale
Glendale's economy runs on stadium events, hospitality, and healthcare — industries staffed on evenings and weekends, which is exactly when conventional psychiatric offices are closed.
Willow & Stone brings doctoral-level, integrative psychiatric care to Glendale and the surrounding Maricopa County 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.
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 Glendale residents
Glendale in practice
Glendale's economy is built on things that happen when most offices are closed. It holds the West Valley's stadium and arena district, a substantial hospitality sector serving it, and a large healthcare employment base, and all three staff evenings, nights, and weekends. Households here are frequently shift-staggered, with two working parents handing off childcare between schedules that barely overlap — an arrangement that is efficient and has no slack in it at all. When one parent's sleep or mood declines, the whole structure loses its margin, and patients from Glendale often present later than they should because there was simply no hour in the week available for seeking help.
Getting care in Glendale
The problem in Glendale is scheduling, not distance. A clinic open from nine to five is open exactly when an events or hospitality worker is at work and exactly when a night-shift nurse is asleep, and neither group can reliably take a mid-morning slot without giving up pay or sleep to do it. Referrals also tend to point east into central Phoenix, adding a drive to a day that has no room for one. Telehealth makes an appointment something that fits into a gap rather than something that requires a day to be rebuilt around it, which for these schedules is the difference between care and no care.
What Glendale patients need from a psychiatric practice
Shift workers are failed by conventional scheduling more than by anything else. When the clinic is open exactly during working hours, care does not happen — and what looks like disengagement is almost always a roster problem. Appointment times that can move with a rotation are the single most useful thing a practice can offer this population.
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.
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.
Transparent Cash-Pay Care
Willow & Stone is a direct-pay practice, so Glendale 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 Glendale, AZ?
Yes. Dr. Stacey Forbes, DNP, PMHNP-BC, provides telehealth psychiatric care to patients located in Glendale and throughout Arizona.
Do I have to travel to be seen?
No — most care is delivered by secure video, so Glendale patients are seen from home. Our Arlington, TX office is also available for in-person visits.
What services do you offer Glendale patients?
ADHD Treatment, and Depression Treatment. Telepsychiatry, GeneSight pharmacogenomic testing, and integrative psychiatric evaluation are also available to patients throughout Arizona.
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 Glendale?
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.