Mental Health Care for Denver
Denver sits a mile above sea level and functions as the medical and professional hub for an enormous, thinly populated region — which means its specialists are absorbing demand from several states rather than from one city.
Willow & Stone brings doctoral-level, integrative psychiatric care to Denver 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 Denver
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 Denver residents
Denver in practice
Denver is the professional and medical centre of gravity for an enormous, thinly populated stretch of the country, which means its specialists carry referrals from well beyond the city and often beyond the state. The local working population is concentrated in finance, energy administration, aerospace, and a large technology sector, and it skews young and recently arrived — a city where a great many adults have no physician who knew them before they moved here, and no one locally who can say whether a change in mood is a departure from their baseline or an adjustment to a new place at five thousand feet.
Getting care in Denver
Denver's psychiatric problem is not scarcity in the abstract but availability in practice: the practices with strong reputations book out for weeks and hold their appointments inside the working day. For a professional whose calendar rather than their budget is the binding constraint, that makes the visit affordable and still impossible. The metro's geography compounds it, since a specialist in one quadrant is a genuine cross-town trip from another at the times of day appointments are offered. Video visits remove the trip and open up the hours around it, and they matter most for the short, frequent follow-ups that decide whether a medication is ever properly optimised.
What Denver patients need from a psychiatric practice
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.
In a community built around long commutes, the day is fully committed before anyone considers adding an appointment, and healthcare is what gets deferred. Care that costs only the length of the visit — with no travel on either side — is what makes an ongoing treatment plan realistic rather than aspirational.
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.
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.
Transparent Cash-Pay Care
Willow & Stone is a direct-pay practice, so Denver 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 Denver, CO?
Yes. Dr. Stacey Forbes, DNP, PMHNP-BC, provides telehealth psychiatric care to patients located in Denver and throughout Colorado.
Do I have to travel to be seen?
No — most care is delivered by secure video, so Denver patients are seen from home. Our Arlington, TX office is also available for in-person visits.
What services do you offer Denver patients?
ADHD Treatment, Teen & Adolescent Psychiatry, Depression Treatment, and Medication Management. Telepsychiatry, GeneSight pharmacogenomic testing, and integrative psychiatric evaluation are also available to patients throughout Colorado.
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 Denver?
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.