Psychiatric Care in Lubbock, TX

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

Mental Health Care for Lubbock

Lubbock anchors West Texas and hosts Texas Tech University, concentrating a student population with high rates of undiagnosed ADHD and anxiety.

Willow & Stone brings doctoral-level, integrative psychiatric care to Lubbock 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 Lubbock

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 Lubbock residents

Lubbock in practice

Lubbock is the hub of the South Plains, a university city surrounded by a very large and sparsely populated agricultural region that depends on it for nearly all specialty services. Texas Tech puts a substantial student population at the center, while the surrounding area sends in farming and ranching families for whom the trip into town is already a planned event. Agricultural work carries well-documented mental health pressures — financial exposure to weather and commodity prices, isolation, and a strong cultural reluctance to seek psychiatric help — and Lubbock is where that population arrives when it finally does.

Getting care in Lubbock

For patients coming from the surrounding counties, the drive into Lubbock can run well over an hour each way, which turns a brief medication follow-up into most of a working day during seasons when a working day cannot be spared. Students face the different problem of a calendar that empties the city twice a year. Telepsychiatry serves both: it keeps the appointment short for the rural patient and continuous for the student, without requiring either to be physically in Lubbock.

What Lubbock 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.

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.

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 Lubbock 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 Amarillo.

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.