Psychiatric Care in Everett, WA

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

Mental Health Care for Everett

Everett is the seat of Snohomish County and home to both Naval Station Everett and Boeing's wide-body assembly plant, so Navy families and aerospace shift workers make up much of the city's working life.

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

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 Everett residents

Everett in practice

Everett is the seat of Snohomish County and a city built around two large employers. Naval Station Everett is the homeport for Navy ships and their crews, so deployment cycles, long separations, and relocation run through many households. Boeing's Everett plant, where the company assembles its wide-body jets, employs engineers, machinists, and mechanics on shifts that cover the day and night, and generations of local families have worked there. Around the city, Snohomish County has grown quickly with families priced out of Seattle and the Eastside, so school-age and adolescent referrals keep rising. Military spouses, aerospace engineers, and young parents make up much of the patient population.

Getting care in Everett

Everett has a regional hospital system, but outpatient psychiatric capacity has not kept pace with the county's growth, and the usual referral points south — into the I-5 traffic toward Seattle that many residents already sit in every day. For a Navy family, a new provider at each set of orders means starting the explanation over. For engineers on a demanding programme schedule, an appointment inside the working day is the first thing to slip. Video visits remove the drive and fit around a shift, a sea-duty rotation, or a school pickup.

What Everett patients need from a psychiatric practice

West of the Cascades, the season to plan around is the long grey stretch from autumn into spring, when days are short and the sky is often overcast for weeks. Seasonal changes in mood, sleep, energy, and concentration are a routine part of the evaluation here, not an afterthought once a medication has failed through a winter. Planning ahead — reviewing a treatment plan before the dark months, and keeping appointments that do not depend on driving through rain and early darkness — makes winter care far more effective.

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.

Technical and professional patients tend to arrive having researched extensively, wanting to understand mechanism and evidence rather than receive a prescription. That suits a longer evaluation and frustrates a short medication check — and the mismatch drives people away from psychiatry altogether rather than to a different provider.

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

Care for Everett patients is direct-pay, so they skip insurance delays, prior authorizations, and surprise bills (insurance is accepted only for patients in Texas). 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.

Other Washington Communities We Serve

Willow & Stone also provides telehealth psychiatry to Seattle, Bellingham.

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.