Psychiatric Care in Loveland, CO

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

Mental Health Care for Loveland

Loveland sits between Fort Collins and the foothills, drawing both families priced out of Boulder County and retirees who came to northern Colorado for the setting.

Willow & Stone brings doctoral-level, integrative psychiatric care to Loveland 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 Loveland

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 Loveland residents

Loveland in practice

Loveland sits between Fort Collins and the foothills and has drawn two distinct groups for the same reason — the setting. Families priced out of Boulder County and out of Fort Collins have moved north and west into it, and retirees have been arriving for decades to be near the mountains without being in them. The city functions partly as a satellite of Fort Collins and partly on its own, with a manufacturing and medical-device employment base of its own. A large share of both groups arrived from lower elevations, and a large share of them slept badly for their first months here without ever connecting it to the move.

Getting care in Loveland

Psychiatric specialty referrals from Loveland go to Fort Collins or south to the Denver metro, and both are real trips for the population least able to make them. Older residents who have stopped driving in snow lose access for a third of the year on that basis alone, and late-life depression here is under-treated for exactly that reason before anyone has considered whether it was recognised in the first place. Families face the school-day-plus-work-day arithmetic on every follow-up. A video visit removes the seasonal problem entirely, since weather stops being a factor in whether an appointment happens.

What Loveland patients need from a psychiatric practice

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.

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 Loveland 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 Fort Collins, Longmont.

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.