Mental Health Care for Artesia
Artesia is a refinery and oilfield town in the Permian Basin, prosperous when the field is active and exposed when it is not.
Willow & Stone brings doctoral-level, integrative psychiatric care to Artesia 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 Artesia residents
Artesia in practice
Artesia sits in the Permian Basin between Roswell and Carlsbad, with a refinery at the center of town and oilfield work spreading out around it. The town's fortunes track the field closely: prosperous and busy when drilling is active, exposed when it is not. It is also a notably family-oriented community that has invested heavily in its schools, so unlike much of the oilfield workforce nearby, a large share of the population here is settled rather than transient — which changes what people need from a psychiatric practice, since they expect to still be here in five years.
Getting care in Artesia
Southeastern New Mexico has very little psychiatric specialty care, and the nearest markets of any size are across the state line in Texas — which does not help a patient who needs a New Mexico-licensed prescriber. Oilfield rotations make a fixed weekly appointment impossible to hold regardless of distance, and the boom-and-bust cycle means local services staff up and down unpredictably. Telehealth provides what the local market structurally cannot: the same clinician through both halves of the cycle.
What Artesia patients need from a psychiatric practice
Communities tied to the energy cycle live with real financial volatility, and the anxiety and depression that follow a downturn are responses to actual circumstances rather than distortions. Treatment has to acknowledge that honestly, and it has to fit around rotational schedules that make a fixed weekly appointment impossible to hold.
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.
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 Artesia 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Willow & Stone accept patients from Artesia, NM?
Yes. Dr. Stacey Forbes, DNP, PMHNP-BC, provides telehealth psychiatric care to patients located in Artesia and throughout New Mexico.
Do I have to travel to be seen?
No — most care is delivered by secure video, so Artesia patients are seen from home. Our Arlington, TX office is also available for in-person visits.
What services do you offer Artesia patients?
ADHD Treatment, and Depression Treatment. Telepsychiatry, GeneSight pharmacogenomic testing, and integrative psychiatric evaluation are also available to patients throughout New Mexico.
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 Artesia?
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.