Mental Health Care for Steamboat Springs
Steamboat Springs is a resort town in the Yampa Valley whose population, workload, and cost of living all swing hard between the ski season and the quiet months on either side of it.
Willow & Stone brings doctoral-level, integrative psychiatric care to Steamboat Springs 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 Steamboat Springs residents
Steamboat Springs in practice
Steamboat Springs sits at nearly seven thousand feet in the Yampa Valley, and its year has two distinct shapes: a ski season in which the town's population multiplies and the work is relentless, and the months either side of it when much of that work simply stops. That rhythm produces a predictable annual pattern in income, in hours, and in mood, and it falls hardest on the service workforce that keeps the resort running — people frequently working several jobs during the season and living on the margins between them, in a valley where housing is priced by second-home buyers rather than by local wages.
Getting care in Steamboat Springs
The nearest metropolitan psychiatric capacity is in Denver, more than three hours away over Rabbit Ears Pass, which closes. Local specialty care is limited, and a seasonal worker cannot take a day during the season without losing the income the season exists to produce. The result is that treatment gets started in the shoulder months and abandoned when the lifts open, which is the worst possible cadence for a medication trial. Video visits can be taken in a gap between shifts and do not depend on the pass being open, and that is what makes a consistent every-few-weeks schedule achievable here at all.
What Steamboat Springs 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.
In affluent, tightly networked communities the barrier is rarely cost — it is availability and discretion. Being seen entering a local psychiatric practice carries a social cost that families weigh seriously, and teenagers raise it first. Care taken privately from home removes a concern that no amount of tact at a physical office fully resolves.
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 Steamboat Springs 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, Grand Junction.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Willow & Stone accept patients from Steamboat Springs, CO?
Yes. Dr. Stacey Forbes, DNP, PMHNP-BC, provides telehealth psychiatric care to patients located in Steamboat Springs and throughout Colorado.
Do I have to travel to be seen?
No — most care is delivered by secure video, so Steamboat Springs patients are seen from home. Our Arlington, TX office is also available for in-person visits.
What services do you offer Steamboat Springs 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 Steamboat Springs?
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.