Psychiatric Care in Colorado Springs, CO

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

Mental Health Care for Colorado Springs

Colorado Springs holds several military installations inside one metropolitan area, including the Air Force Academy and Fort Carson, so military and veteran families are a routine part of any local practice rather than a specialty within it.

Willow & Stone brings doctoral-level, integrative psychiatric care to Colorado Springs 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 Colorado Springs

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 Colorado Springs residents

Colorado Springs in practice

Colorado Springs holds several major military installations within one metropolitan area, including the United States Air Force Academy and Fort Carson, and the consequence is a city where active-duty members, veterans, defence contractors, and military families are the ordinary patient population rather than a specialty within it. That brings a recognisable set of presentations: post-traumatic stress alongside depression, attention difficulties that only became visible after a change in role or separation from service, and sleep that has been disordered since a deployment. The city has also grown quickly with young families, at six thousand feet, where new arrivals routinely spend their first months sleeping badly.

Getting care in Colorado Springs

The most consequential barrier here is not distance but disclosure. A large share of the working population holds or is seeking a security clearance, and the widespread belief that any psychiatric treatment will jeopardise it keeps people from being evaluated at all — a belief that outlives every attempt to correct it and that costs years of untreated illness. Military healthcare and the VA both exist locally and both carry waits. A private video appointment taken from home addresses the visibility concern directly, and it removes the separate practical problem of a spouse whose care would otherwise end at the next set of orders.

What Colorado Springs patients need from a psychiatric practice

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.

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.

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.

Transparent Cash-Pay Care

Willow & Stone is a direct-pay practice, so Colorado Springs 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 Castle Rock, Pueblo.

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.