Mental Health Care for Peoria
Peoria stretches from established retirement communities in the northwest Valley down into new family subdivisions — two populations with almost nothing clinically in common sharing one set of city limits.
Willow & Stone brings doctoral-level, integrative psychiatric care to Peoria 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 Peoria residents
Peoria in practice
Peoria runs a long way north from the older Valley grid into newer subdivisions, and it contains two populations with almost nothing clinically in common. The established active-adult and retirement communities in the northwest bring late-life presentations — depression mistaken for ageing, cognitive complaints that could be several different things, and medication lists assembled by several prescribers who have never spoken. The newer neighbourhoods to the south hold young families whose adolescent mental health concerns usually surface through a school. Nearly everyone working commutes south or east into the rest of the Valley, which lengthens the day at both ends.
Getting care in Peoria
Both of Peoria's populations are referred toward the same places — central Phoenix or the older West Valley medical corridor — and both find the trip harder than it looks on a map. An older patient who has stopped driving the freeways, or who no longer drives comfortably in summer glare, treats that referral as impractical rather than inconvenient. A commuting parent treats it the same way for different reasons. Video visits remove the drive entirely, and for the older patients in particular they make it realistic to have a family member sit in on the appointment without anyone having to arrange a day around it.
What Peoria patients need from a psychiatric practice
A community weighted toward older residents needs a psychiatric practice that takes late-life presentations seriously rather than filing them under ageing. Depression that shows up as physical complaints, cognitive concerns that may be medication-related, bereavement, and the loss of independence that follows giving up driving are all treatable, and all routinely dismissed. It also needs a practice willing to review a long existing medication list rather than simply adding to it.
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.
In a climate with a long and genuinely severe summer, the season is a clinical variable rather than a complaint about the weather. Activity stops, sleep is broken, and people withdraw indoors for months, and a practice that does not ask about that specifically will treat the resulting low mood as though it appeared from nowhere. It also matters for prescribing: heat tolerance and hydration interact with several psychiatric medications, and that is worth planning around before the hot months rather than reacting to during them.
Transparent Cash-Pay Care
Willow & Stone is a direct-pay practice, so Peoria 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 Peoria, AZ?
Yes. Dr. Stacey Forbes, DNP, PMHNP-BC, provides telehealth psychiatric care to patients located in Peoria and throughout Arizona.
Do I have to travel to be seen?
No — most care is delivered by secure video, so Peoria patients are seen from home. Our Arlington, TX office is also available for in-person visits.
What services do you offer Peoria 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 Peoria?
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.