Psychiatric Care in Denton, TX

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

Mental Health Care for Denton

Home to the University of North Texas and Texas Woman's University, Denton has a large young-adult population in which undiagnosed adult ADHD and anxiety are especially common.

Willow & Stone brings doctoral-level, integrative psychiatric care to Denton and the surrounding Denton 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 Denton

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 Denton residents

Denton in practice

Denton holds two universities — the University of North Texas and Texas Woman's University — inside a city of moderate size, which gives it an unusually large young-adult population relative to everything else about it. That population drives a specific and heavy clinical demand: first-episode anxiety and depression, first-time ADHD evaluation in students who managed until the structure of high school disappeared, and the sleep disruption that university life reliably produces. Around the universities is a city whose other residents commute south into the metroplex, and the two groups compete for the same limited local specialty care.

Getting care in Denton

Campus counseling services are built for short-term support and typically cannot provide ongoing psychiatric medication management, so students needing a prescriber are referred into a local market that is small for the demand placed on it. Students also frequently lack a car, and the year splits their address between Denton and a family home elsewhere. Telepsychiatry handles both: care continues across a summer or a semester break without transferring to a new provider, which is when treatment most often lapses.

What Denton 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 a community built around long commutes, the day is fully committed before anyone considers adding an appointment, and healthcare is what gets deferred. Care that costs only the length of the visit — with no travel on either side — is what makes an ongoing treatment plan realistic rather than aspirational.

Fast-growing family communities generate adolescent psychiatric demand faster than local capacity expands to meet it, and waiting months for an evaluation is genuinely costly at an age where a school year is a long time. Families here also need appointment times that do not require pulling a teenager out of school for every routine follow-up.

Transparent Cash-Pay Care

Willow & Stone is a direct-pay practice, so Denton 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 Lewisville, Carrollton.

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.