Psychiatric Care in Lakewood, CO

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

Mental Health Care for Lakewood

Lakewood runs along Denver's western edge against the foothills — an older suburb whose residents commute east into the city and tend to age in place rather than move on.

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

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 Lakewood residents

Lakewood in practice

Lakewood runs along Denver's western edge where the metro meets the foothills, and it is an older suburb rather than a new one — built out decades ago, with a population that has largely stayed and aged in place instead of moving on. That gives it a substantial older-adult population living independently, often with medication lists assembled across years by several different prescribers who have never spoken to each other. The working residents commute east into Denver on a corridor that is congested in both directions, and a good many of the households here have been in the same home long enough that leaving it is not part of the plan.

Getting care in Lakewood

For Lakewood's older patients the practical obstacle is driving: a psychiatric referral into central Denver means a freeway trip at the times of day appointments are offered, and for someone who has stopped driving at night or in snow that is a decision to go without rather than an inconvenience. Late-life depression is under-treated here for exactly that reason, and it is under-recognised for another — it gets filed under normal ageing by families and sometimes by clinicians. A video visit removes the drive and makes it straightforward for an adult child to sit in on the appointment, which frequently changes what gets said.

What Lakewood patients need from a psychiatric practice

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.

A community weighted toward older residents needs a psychiatric practice that takes late-life presentations seriously rather than filing them under ageing. Depression that shows up as physical complaints, cognitive concerns that may be medication-related, bereavement, and the loss of independence that follows giving up driving are all treatable, and all routinely dismissed. It also needs a practice willing to review a long existing medication list rather than simply adding to it.

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 Lakewood 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 Denver, Arvada.

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.