Psychiatric Care in Fort Collins, CO

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

Mental Health Care for Fort Collins

Fort Collins is built around Colorado State University at the northern end of the Front Range, an hour from Denver and functionally the medical centre for everything north of it.

Willow & Stone brings doctoral-level, integrative psychiatric care to Fort Collins and the surrounding Larimer 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 Fort Collins

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 Fort Collins residents

Fort Collins in practice

Fort Collins is built around Colorado State University at the northern end of the Front Range, an hour up the interstate from Denver and functionally the medical centre for everything north and east of it. The university puts a large young-adult population at the city's core, generating first-episode anxiety and depression and a steady stream of first-time adult ADHD evaluations in students whose compensations stopped working once secondary school structure disappeared. Around the campus is a growing family city that people move to deliberately for the setting, which means a sizeable share of adults here arrived recently and at altitude, and slept poorly for their first months without connecting the two.

Getting care in Fort Collins

Campus counselling is structured for short-term support and generally cannot sustain psychiatric medication management, so students who need a prescriber enter a local market that is modest relative to the demand on it — and the academic year splits their address between Fort Collins and a family home elsewhere, which is precisely when treatment lapses. Patients from the towns and farm communities further north and east are referred here, adding a drive to an already limited supply. Telepsychiatry holds care continuous across semesters and summers, and it lets the surrounding region reach a prescriber without Fort Collins being the bottleneck.

What Fort Collins 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.

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 Fort Collins 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 Loveland, Greeley.

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.