Medication Management for Taos Patients
Good psychiatric medication management is far more than writing a prescription. For Taos 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. Taos patients get longer, unhurried appointments instead of the typical rushed 15-minute visit.
Medication Management in Taos: the local picture
Taos is a small mountain town with an outsized cultural identity, built on the arts, skiing, and tourism, alongside Taos Pueblo and long-established Hispanic communities whose roots in the valley predate the state. The economy is strongly seasonal: winter and summer bring visitors and work, and the shoulder seasons bring neither. That rhythm produces predictable seasonal financial stress, and combined with the elevation, the winter light, and genuine geographic isolation, it makes seasonal patterns in mood something to evaluate directly rather than treat as incidental.
Getting care in Taos
Taos is a long way from anything: Santa Fe is well over an hour south on mountain roads and Albuquerque considerably further, and winter conditions can make either trip unwise. Local behavioral health capacity is small for the population it serves, and seasonal workers frequently have neither employer coverage nor a schedule that accommodates a full day away. Telehealth removes the mountain drive, which in this part of New Mexico is the single largest practical obstacle to consistent psychiatric care.
What this means for Taos 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.
When the nearest prescriber is hours away, medication management tends to collapse into infrequent visits and long unchanged prescriptions. Proper titration requires check-ins measured in weeks, not seasons, and that cadence is what telehealth actually makes possible in a rural setting.
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can you manage my medications by telehealth in Taos?
Yes. Taos 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 Taos patients.
Do you take insurance for medication management in Taos?
Willow & Stone is cash-pay and provides superbills for out-of-network reimbursement — no prior authorizations for Taos 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 Santa Fe, and throughout the Taos County.
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If you are experiencing a mental health emergency, call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline) or call 911.