Mental Health Care for Yuma
Yuma is a border and farming city where winter vegetable production draws a large seasonal workforce, Marine Corps Air Station Yuma sits inside the city, and the population swells with winter visitors before emptying again in spring.
Willow & Stone brings doctoral-level, integrative psychiatric care to Yuma 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 Yuma residents
Yuma in practice
Yuma sits in Arizona's southwestern corner where the state meets both California and Mexico, and its year has two completely different shapes. In winter the surrounding fields produce a large share of the country's leafy vegetables, drawing a substantial agricultural workforce, much of it crossing from San Luis and much of it Spanish-speaking; the city's population swells further with winter visitors. In summer the fields are idle and the heat is among the most extreme in the country. Marine Corps Air Station Yuma sits inside the city, so service members and military families are part of the permanent population rather than a visiting one.
Getting care in Yuma
Yuma is three hours from Phoenix and roughly the same from San Diego, and psychiatric specialty care beyond what exists locally means one of those drives. For agricultural workers the obstacles compound: the season is the season, taking a day is not possible during it, and an assessment conducted in English through an interpreter will miss most of what matters. Military families face the relocation problem instead — care rebuilt from scratch every few years with each set of orders. Telehealth addresses all three, because it makes a clinician's availability rather than their address the thing that decides whether care is possible.
What Yuma patients need from a psychiatric practice
In bilingual communities, language concordance is a clinical requirement rather than a courtesy — psychiatric assessment depends almost entirely on nuance in how someone describes their own experience. Care conducted in a patient's second language, or summarised through a family member, risks getting the answer wrong in either direction.
Military and veteran families need a practice that understands deployment cycles, frequent relocation, and the particular strain both place on spouses and children — and that will talk plainly about how treatment interacts with duty and clearance concerns rather than leaving them unspoken. Those concerns are frequently based on outdated assumptions, and leaving them unaddressed is what stops people from starting.
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.
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 Yuma 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 Arizona Communities We Serve
Willow & Stone also provides telehealth psychiatry to Tucson.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Willow & Stone accept patients from Yuma, AZ?
Yes. Dr. Stacey Forbes, DNP, PMHNP-BC, provides telehealth psychiatric care to patients located in Yuma and throughout Arizona.
Do I have to travel to be seen?
No — most care is delivered by secure video, so Yuma patients are seen from home. Our Arlington, TX office is also available for in-person visits.
What services do you offer Yuma 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 Yuma?
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.