Psychiatric Care in Austin, TX

Integrative, cash-pay telepsychiatry for Austin — from the comfort of home.

Mental Health Care for Austin

Austin's tech-forward, health-conscious culture drives high awareness of adult ADHD and strong interest in functional, root-cause psychiatry.

Willow & Stone brings doctoral-level, integrative psychiatric care to Austin and the surrounding Travis County area 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 Austin

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 Austin residents

Austin in practice

Austin combines a major research university with a technology sector that has grown faster than the city's infrastructure, and the resulting population is young, mobile, and under considerable financial pressure from housing costs. The clinical profile skews toward high-functioning adults with anxiety, burnout, and undiagnosed adult ADHD — people whose work rewards intensity until it stops being sustainable. There is also a strong local preference for integrative and root-cause approaches, so patients frequently arrive already asking about labs, sleep architecture, and nutritional contributors rather than wanting a prescription alone.

Getting care in Austin

Austin's growth has outpaced its psychiatric capacity, and practices accepting new patients frequently carry long waits. The city's traffic makes a cross-town appointment costly in a way that is disproportionate to the visit. And a highly mobile population means many patients change addresses within the metro, or leave and return, which repeatedly breaks continuity with a location-bound provider. Telehealth removes the address from the equation, so a move across town does not restart the search.

What Austin patients need from a psychiatric practice

Technical and professional patients tend to arrive having researched extensively, wanting to understand mechanism and evidence rather than receive a prescription. That suits a longer evaluation and frustrates a short medication check — and the mismatch drives people away from psychiatry altogether rather than to a different provider.

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.

Shift workers are failed by conventional scheduling more than by anything else. When the clinic is open exactly during working hours, care does not happen — and what looks like disengagement is almost always a roster problem. Appointment times that can move with a rotation are the single most useful thing a practice can offer this population.

Transparent Cash-Pay Care

Willow & Stone is a direct-pay practice, so Austin 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 San Antonio, Waco.

Frequently Asked Questions

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.