Mental Health Care for Silver City
Silver City, home to Western New Mexico University, pairs a remote location with a holistic-friendly community that's open to integrative psychiatry.
Willow & Stone brings doctoral-level, integrative psychiatric care to Silver City 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 Silver City
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 Silver City residents
Silver City in practice
Silver City sits in the mountains of southwestern New Mexico, a former mining town that now combines Western New Mexico University, an arts community, and the continuing copper operations nearby. It is genuinely remote — surrounded by national forest, hours from any city — and the population mixes students, artists and retirees drawn by the setting, and mining families with long local roots. Isolation is protective for some patients here and corrosive for others, and distinguishing between the two is a real part of the clinical work.
Getting care in Silver City
Southwestern New Mexico has very little psychiatric specialty care, and the drive to Las Cruces or Albuquerque crosses mountain roads that weather can make slow or impassable. A referral out of the area is, in practice, a referral many patients will not act on. The university brings the additional problem of students whose care lapses each time the academic year breaks. Telepsychiatry addresses both — it holds continuity across terrain and across semesters.
What Silver City 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.
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.
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.
Transparent Cash-Pay Care
Willow & Stone is a direct-pay practice, so Silver City 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.
Nearby Communities We Serve
Willow & Stone also provides telehealth psychiatry to Deming.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Willow & Stone accept patients from Silver City, NM?
Yes. Dr. Stacey Forbes, DNP, PMHNP-BC, provides telehealth psychiatric care to patients located in Silver City and throughout New Mexico.
Do I have to travel to be seen?
No — most care is delivered by secure video, so Silver City patients are seen from home. Our Arlington, TX office is also available for in-person visits.
What services do you offer Silver City 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 Silver City?
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.