Mental Health Care for Las Cruces
Las Cruces, home to New Mexico State University and adjacent to El Paso, is a fast-growing southern hub where accessible, bilingual-friendly telepsychiatry meets real need.
Willow & Stone brings doctoral-level, integrative psychiatric care to Las Cruces 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 Las Cruces
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 Las Cruces residents
Las Cruces in practice
Las Cruces is New Mexico's second city, built around New Mexico State University and the agricultural economy of the Mesilla Valley, and it sits close enough to the border and to El Paso that daily life routinely crosses both lines. The population is heavily Hispanic and substantially bilingual, with agricultural work that follows seasonal cycles and university employment that follows academic ones. Language concordance is not a preference here but a clinical requirement for accurate psychiatric assessment, and its absence is a common reason evaluations go wrong.
Getting care in Las Cruces
Las Cruces has a university and a hospital but limited psychiatric specialty depth, and the nearest larger market is across a state line in El Paso — which a New Mexico license does not cover for a patient physically located in Texas, and vice versa. That geography confuses patients regularly and interrupts care when someone travels. Telehealth with a New Mexico-licensed clinician keeps the rule simple: as long as you are in New Mexico for the visit, you are covered, wherever the clinician happens to be.
What Las Cruces patients need from a psychiatric practice
A student population needs psychiatric care that survives the academic calendar. Campus services are built for short-term support and rarely provide ongoing medication management, and the handoff between them and an outside prescriber is where treatment most often lapses. Continuity across semesters and summers matters more here than proximity to campus.
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.
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.
Transparent Cash-Pay Care
Willow & Stone is a direct-pay practice, so Las Cruces 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 Las Cruces, NM?
Yes. Dr. Stacey Forbes, DNP, PMHNP-BC, provides telehealth psychiatric care to patients located in Las Cruces and throughout New Mexico.
Do I have to travel to be seen?
No — most care is delivered by secure video, so Las Cruces patients are seen from home. Our Arlington, TX office is also available for in-person visits.
What services do you offer Las Cruces patients?
ADHD Treatment, Teen & Adolescent Psychiatry, Depression Treatment, Medication Management, Telepsychiatry, GeneSight Testing, and Integrative Psychiatry.
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 Las Cruces?
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.