Mental Health Care for Sedona
Sedona is a small red-rock town with an outsized wellness economy, where a substantial share of both residents and visitors are already committed to integrative approaches to their health.
Willow & Stone brings doctoral-level, integrative psychiatric care to Sedona 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 Sedona residents
Sedona in practice
Sedona is a small town in the red rock country below the Mogollon Rim with an economy built almost entirely on visitors and on wellness — retreats, spas, bodywork, and an alternative-health sector far larger than the resident population would suggest. Its permanent residents skew affluent and older, many having moved here in retirement, and a substantial number are already committed to integrative approaches to their health before any conversation about psychiatry begins. That commitment is genuinely useful and occasionally costly: people here sometimes spend years working through alternative treatments for a condition that also needed a psychiatric evaluation.
Getting care in Sedona
There is very little psychiatric care in Sedona itself, and the alternatives are Flagstaff over the switchbacks of Oak Creek Canyon or Prescott across the mountains — both real drives, both worse in winter. The service workforce supporting the visitor economy generally cannot take a day for either. For residents, the more interesting problem is not access but framing: an integrative practice that takes nutrition, hormones, sleep, and the gut-brain axis seriously alongside conventional psychiatry is what many people here have been looking for and have not found locally. Video visits make that combination available without the canyon drive.
What Sedona patients need from a psychiatric practice
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.
In affluent, tightly networked communities the barrier is rarely cost — it is availability and discretion. Being seen entering a local psychiatric practice carries a social cost that families weigh seriously, and teenagers raise it first. Care taken privately from home removes a concern that no amount of tact at a physical office fully resolves.
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.
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.
Transparent Cash-Pay Care
Willow & Stone is a direct-pay practice, so Sedona 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 Sedona, AZ?
Yes. Dr. Stacey Forbes, DNP, PMHNP-BC, provides telehealth psychiatric care to patients located in Sedona and throughout Arizona.
Do I have to travel to be seen?
No — most care is delivered by secure video, so Sedona patients are seen from home. Our Arlington, TX office is also available for in-person visits.
What services do you offer Sedona 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 Sedona?
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.