Mental Health Care for El Paso
El Paso sits on the Texas–New Mexico border in a chronically underserved region, where telepsychiatry expands access to scarce psychiatric expertise.
Willow & Stone brings doctoral-level, integrative psychiatric care to El Paso 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 El Paso
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 El Paso residents
El Paso in practice
El Paso sits at the far western corner of Texas, closer to three other state capitals than to its own, and it functions as one metropolitan region with Ciudad Juárez across the border. Fort Bliss makes the military presence enormous, and the city is heavily bilingual and predominantly Hispanic, with strong extended-family structures. Clinically that means a large population carrying deployment-related trauma alongside families where mental health is discussed carefully, if at all, and where a first psychiatric appointment is often the result of considerable deliberation.
Getting care in El Paso
El Paso's isolation from the rest of Texas is the defining access fact: specialty referrals that would be routine elsewhere can mean a flight or a very long drive. Military families face the additional problem that a permanent change of station ends a care relationship mid-treatment, which is a common reason a medication course is never properly completed. Telehealth keeps a Texas-licensed clinician available as long as the patient remains in Texas, and removes the assumption that specialty care requires leaving the region.
What El Paso patients need from a psychiatric practice
Military and veteran families need a practice that understands deployment cycles, frequent relocation, and the particular strain both place on spouses and children — and that will talk plainly about how treatment interacts with duty and clearance concerns rather than leaving them unspoken. Those concerns are frequently based on outdated assumptions, and leaving them unaddressed is what stops people from starting.
In bilingual communities, language concordance is a clinical requirement rather than a courtesy — psychiatric assessment depends almost entirely on nuance in how someone describes their own experience. Care conducted in a patient's second language, or summarised through a family member, risks getting the answer wrong in either direction.
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.
Transparent Cash-Pay Care
Willow & Stone is a direct-pay practice, so El Paso 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 Las Cruces.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Willow & Stone accept patients from El Paso, TX?
Yes. Dr. Stacey Forbes, DNP, PMHNP-BC, provides telehealth psychiatric care to patients located in El Paso and throughout Texas.
Do I have to travel to be seen?
No — most care is delivered by secure video, so El Paso patients are seen from home. Our Arlington, TX office is also available for in-person visits.
What services do you offer El Paso 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 El Paso?
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.