Mental Health Care for Kennewick
Kennewick is the largest of the Tri-Cities, a fast-growing desert metro on the Columbia whose economy leans on the Hanford Site cleanup, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and the surrounding farms.
Willow & Stone brings doctoral-level, integrative psychiatric care to Kennewick 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.
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 Kennewick residents
Kennewick in practice
Kennewick is the largest of the Tri-Cities, a desert metro where the Yakima, Snake, and Columbia rivers meet in south-central Washington. Its economy leans on the Hanford Site cleanup and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in neighbouring Richland, which together employ large numbers of engineers, scientists, and technicians, along with the irrigated farms around it. The area has grown quickly, drawing young families with relatively affordable housing, so school-age and adolescent needs are rising. Many residents commute across the river bridges between the three cities every day.
Getting care in Kennewick
The Tri-Cities' psychiatric capacity has not grown at the pace of its population, and the next tier of specialty care is across the Cascades in Seattle or north in Spokane, each a long drive. Families wait for adolescent evaluations at an age when a school year is a long time. Engineers and laboratory staff tend to want an unhurried discussion of mechanism and evidence that a short medication check does not allow. Video visits remove the distance and leave room for that conversation.
What Kennewick patients need from a psychiatric practice
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.
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.
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.
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
Care for Kennewick 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Willow & Stone accept patients from Kennewick, WA?
Yes. Dr. Stacey Forbes, DNP, PMHNP-BC, provides telehealth psychiatric care to patients located in Kennewick and throughout Washington.
Do I have to travel to be seen?
No — most care is delivered by secure video, so Kennewick patients are seen from home. Our Arlington, TX office is also available for in-person visits.
What services do you offer Kennewick patients?
ADHD Treatment, and Depression Treatment. Telepsychiatry, GeneSight pharmacogenomic testing, and integrative psychiatric evaluation are also available to patients throughout Washington.
Do you take insurance?
Insurance is accepted only for patients in Texas. Care for Washington patients is direct-pay (out-of-network), and we provide a superbill you can submit to your insurer for possible out-of-network reimbursement, with no prior authorizations or referrals required.
How do I get started in Kennewick?
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.