Mental Health Care for Durango
Durango sits in Colorado's southwest corner beside the Southern Ute and Ute Mountain Ute reservations — a college and tourism town roughly six hours by road from Denver.
Willow & Stone brings doctoral-level, integrative psychiatric care to Durango 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 Durango residents
Durango in practice
Durango sits in Colorado's southwest corner at sixty-five hundred feet, a college town built around Fort Lewis College and a tourism economy running on the narrow-gauge railroad, the ski area, and the San Juan mountains. It is also the nearest real town for the Southern Ute and Ute Mountain Ute reservations and for a wide rural catchment reaching into New Mexico, so it carries a referral load far larger than its population suggests. Seasonal work dominates local employment, with intense stretches in summer and winter and quiet ones between, and housing costs set by visitors rather than by local wages.
Getting care in Durango
Durango is roughly six hours from Denver by road and there is no version of that trip that makes a routine psychiatric follow-up practical. Specialty care is thin locally, and patients coming in from the reservations or from the surrounding rural counties are already driving an hour or more to reach Durango itself. Students lose continuity every summer when their address changes. Seasonal workers cannot take a day during the seasons that pay and have no income during the ones that do not. Telehealth is the only arrangement that holds care steady across all of those, which is why the follow-up rate on it here is so much better.
What Durango patients need from a psychiatric practice
Seasonal economies produce predictable annual swings in work, income, and daylight, and mood tracks all three. A practice serving this kind of community needs to evaluate patterns across the whole year rather than at one point in it, and to build treatment plans that survive the lean months as well as the busy ones.
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.
Psychiatric care in and around Native communities works best when it accounts for community and family context rather than treating the individual in isolation, and when it sits alongside traditional practices instead of competing with them. Care that ignores either is generally care a patient does not return to.
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 Durango 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 Grand Junction.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Willow & Stone accept patients from Durango, CO?
Yes. Dr. Stacey Forbes, DNP, PMHNP-BC, provides telehealth psychiatric care to patients located in Durango and throughout Colorado.
Do I have to travel to be seen?
No — most care is delivered by secure video, so Durango patients are seen from home. Our Arlington, TX office is also available for in-person visits.
What services do you offer Durango patients?
ADHD Treatment, and Depression Treatment. 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 Durango?
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.