Psychiatric Care in Longmont, CO

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

Mental Health Care for Longmont

Longmont was a farming and canning town that became a technology employer's town, and it has kept a working-class core alongside the engineers who arrived later.

Willow & Stone brings doctoral-level, integrative psychiatric care to Longmont and the surrounding Boulder 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 Longmont

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 Longmont residents

Longmont in practice

Longmont was a farming and canning town for most of its history and became a technology employer's town over the past few decades, and both halves of that are still visible in who lives here. Engineers and technical staff work at the large employers in and around the city or commute into Boulder; alongside them is a working-class and substantially Hispanic community that predates the technology sector by generations. Housing costs have pushed a steady flow of families out of Boulder and into Longmont, so the family population is growing and the school-age cohort with it, which is where most adolescent referrals begin.

Getting care in Longmont

Longmont's psychiatric referrals point to Boulder, fifteen miles away and a considerably longer trip than that at the hours appointments are offered — and Boulder's practices carry waits and price points set by Boulder's market rather than Longmont's. Families here therefore end up waiting, or travelling, or both, for adolescent evaluations that are time-sensitive by their nature. The technical workforce faces the familiar problem of appointments held inside the working day. Video visits remove the drive and the market mismatch together: availability stops depending on which side of the county line a clinician's office happens to sit on.

What Longmont patients need from a psychiatric practice

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.

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.

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.

In bilingual communities, language concordance is a clinical requirement rather than a courtesy — psychiatric assessment depends almost entirely on nuance in how someone describes their own experience. Care conducted in a patient's second language, or summarised through a family member, risks getting the answer wrong in either direction.

Transparent Cash-Pay Care

Willow & Stone is a direct-pay practice, so Longmont 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 Boulder, Loveland.

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.