Psychiatric Care in Fort Worth, TX

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

Mental Health Care for Fort Worth

Fort Worth anchors the western half of the Metroplex, blending established families with a fast-growing young-professional core that drives steady demand for integrative psychiatric care. Willow & Stone's Arlington office sits just minutes away, so Fort Worth residents can choose in-person visits or convenient telehealth.

Willow & Stone brings doctoral-level, integrative psychiatric care to Fort Worth and the surrounding Tarrant 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 Fort Worth

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 Fort Worth residents

Fort Worth in practice

Fort Worth is the seat of Tarrant County and the western anchor of a metroplex that keeps stretching further out. It carries a working identity — logistics, aviation manufacturing, the stockyards trade that still shapes how the city sees itself — alongside a downtown professional core and a substantial medical district. Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth sits on the west side, so service members, reservists, and military families are a routine part of the local patient population rather than an exception. That mix matters clinically: the shift schedules, deployment cycles, and physically demanding work histories that show up in a Fort Worth intake are not the same ones that show up in a suburban practice.

Getting care in Fort Worth

The practical problem in Fort Worth is rarely that no psychiatrist exists — it is that the ones taking new patients are concentrated in a few districts, and getting to them means crossing the city at a time of day when that is genuinely expensive. For someone working a fixed shift, an appointment that costs two hours of driving on either side is an appointment that gets cancelled. Willow & Stone is based in Arlington, minutes east, but sees Fort Worth patients by secure video rather than asking them to make that drive.

What Fort Worth 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 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.

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 Fort Worth 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 Arlington, Grand Prairie, Dallas.

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.