Teen & Adolescent Psychiatry for Fort Worth Patients
Adolescence is a high-stakes window for mental health, and Fort Worth families often struggle to find a provider who truly listens. Willow & Stone provides thoughtful, collaborative teen and adolescent psychiatric care — evaluation, medication management when needed, and an integrative lens — delivered to Fort Worth families by secure telehealth.
When to seek help for your teen
- ✓Persistent sadness, irritability, or withdrawal
- ✓A drop in grades, focus, or motivation
- ✓Anxiety that interferes with school or friendships
- ✓Changes in sleep, appetite, or energy
- ✓Talk of hopelessness (seek emergency help for any safety concern)
Our Treatment Approach
Dr. Forbes works with Fort Worth teens and their parents to understand what's really going on — screening for ADHD, anxiety, and depression while considering sleep, nutrition, and the gut-brain connection. Care is unhurried and family-centered, with medication used judiciously and always alongside root-cause support.
Teen & Adolescent Psychiatry in Fort Worth: the local picture
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 this means for Fort Worth patients
Adolescents in military families absorb the strain of deployment cycles and repeated relocation, and the resulting anxiety or withdrawal is often attributed to a recent move when the pattern predates it. Continuity matters enormously for these teenagers, because each relocation otherwise means starting over with a new clinician mid-treatment.
In households built around long commutes, parents are frequently absent during exactly the hours an adolescent is least supervised and most struggling. Building a treatment plan that works within that reality — rather than assuming a parent is available at 4pm — is what makes it likely to be followed.
When a parent works evenings or overnights, a teenager frequently carries responsibilities that would ordinarily be an adult's. That is worth naming directly in the evaluation: what presents as withdrawal or irritability is sometimes the reasonable response of an adolescent doing more than their share, and it changes what the treatment plan should address.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do you provide teen psychiatry by telehealth in Fort Worth?
Yes. Fort Worth teens can be evaluated and treated by secure video with a parent or guardian involved as appropriate.
What ages do you see?
Willow & Stone focuses on adolescents and adults. Contact us to confirm whether telehealth is the right fit for your Fort Worth teen.
Is a parent involved in the visit?
Yes — for minors, a parent or guardian participates. We partner with Fort Worth families throughout care.
Do you take insurance for teen psychiatry in Fort Worth?
Willow & Stone is cash-pay and provides superbills for out-of-network reimbursement — no prior authorizations for Fort Worth 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.
Other Services for Fort Worth
Teen & Adolescent Psychiatry in Nearby Communities
Willow & Stone also provides teen & adolescent psychiatry by telehealth to Arlington, Grand Prairie, Dallas, and throughout the Tarrant County.
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