Medication Management for Santa Fe Patients
Good psychiatric medication management is far more than writing a prescription. For Santa Fe patients, Dr. Stacey Forbes, DNP, PMHNP-BC, takes the time to understand your full history, optimize your regimen, and monitor closely — all by secure telehealth.
Who benefits from medication management
- ✓Anyone starting a new psychiatric medication
- ✓People whose current medication isn’t working well
- ✓Those managing side effects or complex regimens
- ✓Patients seeking a second opinion on their medications
- ✓Anyone wanting a root-cause view alongside medication
Our Treatment Approach
Dr. Forbes personalizes medication selection and dosing, monitors response over time, and pairs prescribing with attention to labs, nutrition, and the gut-brain connection. GeneSight pharmacogenomic testing can help guide choices. Santa Fe patients get longer, unhurried appointments instead of the typical rushed 15-minute visit.
Medication Management in Santa Fe: the local picture
Santa Fe is the state capital and one of the country's significant arts markets, with an economy weighted toward government, tourism, and the galleries and hospitality that surround both. Its population skews notably older than the rest of New Mexico, and it includes a large number of self-employed artists and seasonal hospitality workers — two groups with irregular income and typically no employer health coverage. Housing costs are high relative to local wages, which sharpens the financial stress that shows up in the room.
Getting care in Santa Fe
Santa Fe has good general medical services for its size but limited psychiatric depth, and residents are frequently sent an hour south to Albuquerque for specialty care. For older patients, that drive is itself a barrier; for seasonal workers, it costs a shift they cannot afford to lose. Cash-pay care is unusually relevant here because so much of the workforce is self-employed and already paying out of pocket — what they need is a published price and no surprise, not a network they do not belong to.
What this means for Santa Fe patients
Income and schedule both swing hard between seasons, and a medication plan has to survive the lean months as well as the busy ones. Planning for that in advance prevents the abrupt discontinuations that seasonal workers otherwise experience every year.
Patients who have already tried several medications elsewhere often arrive discouraged and expecting another trial-and-error cycle. Pharmacogenomic testing can inform selection in these cases, and reviewing the full history of what was tried, at what dose, and for how long usually explains more than the failures suggest.
Sedating side effects matter differently for someone driving two hours a day, and that has to shape which medication is chosen and when it is taken. It is a specific, practical question that a rushed appointment reliably skips.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can you manage my medications by telehealth in Santa Fe?
Yes. Santa Fe patients can have their psychiatric medications evaluated, prescribed, and monitored entirely by secure video.
Do you take insurance?
Willow & Stone is a cash-pay practice and provides superbills you can submit for out-of-network reimbursement.
Can you take over prescribing from another provider?
Often, yes. We'll review your history and current regimen and coordinate a safe transition for Santa Fe patients.
Do you take insurance for medication management in Santa Fe?
Willow & Stone is cash-pay and provides superbills for out-of-network reimbursement — no prior authorizations for Santa Fe patients.
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.
Medication Management in Nearby Communities
Willow & Stone also provides medication management by telehealth to Albuquerque, Los Lunas, and throughout the Santa Fe County.
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If you are experiencing a mental health emergency, call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline) or call 911.