Psychiatric Care in Aurora, CO

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

Mental Health Care for Aurora

Aurora is Colorado's most internationally diverse city and a long-standing refugee resettlement destination, and it also holds the Anschutz Medical Campus — so enormous medical capacity sits beside residents who cannot reach it in their own language.

Willow & Stone brings doctoral-level, integrative psychiatric care to Aurora and the surrounding Arapahoe 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.

Our Services for Aurora

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 Aurora residents

Aurora in practice

Aurora is Colorado's most internationally diverse city and has been a refugee resettlement destination for decades, with large communities speaking Spanish, Amharic, Somali, Nepali, Arabic, and Vietnamese among many others. It also contains the Anschutz Medical Campus, one of the largest concentrations of medical capacity in the mountain west — a juxtaposition that produces the city's central problem, since world-class specialists sit a few miles from residents who cannot access them in a language they think in. Much of the working population is in healthcare support, food processing, and logistics, sectors that staff overnight, and households are frequently young and family-heavy.

Getting care in Aurora

Psychiatric assessment depends almost entirely on nuance in language — how a symptom is described, what a patient means by a word, what they leave out. Conducted through an interpreter, or through a family member, it loses precisely that, and it is worse when the interpreter is the patient's own child. Aurora families often wait rather than accept an appointment on those terms. Shift schedules add a second barrier for the same households, since the clinic hours and the working hours are the same hours. Telehealth widens the range of clinicians a patient can realistically see and makes the timing negotiable, which is what turns an intention into an appointment.

What Aurora 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.

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.

At elevation, sleep is lighter and more easily disturbed, and that alone can produce low mood, irritability, and attention problems convincing enough to be treated as primary. For anyone who has recently moved up from lower ground, separating adjustment from illness is the first useful thing a psychiatric evaluation can do. A practice serving mountain communities also has to work around terrain and weather, because a care plan that depends on a patient driving over a pass in February is a care plan that will lose its follow-up visits.

Transparent Cash-Pay Care

Willow & Stone is a direct-pay practice, so Aurora 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 Colorado Communities We Serve

Willow & Stone also provides telehealth psychiatry to Denver, Centennial.

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.