Psychiatric Care in Boulder, CO

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

Mental Health Care for Boulder

Boulder combines the University of Colorado, federal research laboratories, and a dense technology sector inside a small city with an unusually visible culture of physical performance and self-optimisation.

Willow & Stone brings doctoral-level, integrative psychiatric care to Boulder and the surrounding Boulder 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 Boulder

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 Boulder residents

Boulder in practice

Boulder packs the University of Colorado, several federal research laboratories, and a dense technology and biotech sector into a small city at the foot of the Flatirons, and the culture that results is unusually invested in performance — physical, cognitive, and professional. That produces a specific clinical pattern: high-functioning adults who have optimised sleep, training, and diet and still feel wrong, and who arrive having already read the literature and often having already run their own labs. It also produces a quieter one, in which disordered eating and overtraining are camouflaged by a community where extreme athletic discipline is normal and admired rather than remarkable.

Getting care in Boulder

Cost is seldom the barrier in Boulder; the barriers are availability and privacy in a small, tightly networked city where professional and social circles overlap almost completely. Patients raise directly that they do not want to be seen entering a local psychiatric office. There is also a mismatch of expectation: people here generally want a clinician who will engage with mechanism and evidence rather than issue a prescription, and a fifteen-minute medication check cannot do that. A longer video appointment answers both — it is private, and it leaves room for the conversation that made the patient seek an integrative practice in the first place.

What Boulder patients need from a psychiatric practice

A student population needs psychiatric care that survives the academic calendar. Campus services are built for short-term support and rarely provide ongoing medication management, and the handoff between them and an outside prescriber is where treatment most often lapses. Continuity across semesters and summers matters more here than proximity to campus.

Technical and professional patients tend to arrive having researched extensively, wanting to understand mechanism and evidence rather than receive a prescription. That suits a longer evaluation and frustrates a short medication check — and the mismatch drives people away from psychiatry altogether rather than to a different provider.

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.

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 Boulder 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 Longmont, Westminster.

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.