Mental Health Care for Pasco
Pasco, across the Columbia from Kennewick, is a majority-Hispanic city and the agricultural and food-processing end of the Tri-Cities, with a young population and a great many families.
Willow & Stone brings doctoral-level, integrative psychiatric care to Pasco 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 Pasco residents
Pasco in practice
Pasco sits across the Columbia from Kennewick and is the agricultural and food-processing end of the Tri-Cities. It is a majority-Hispanic city, and Spanish is the language of daily life in many households, workplaces, and churches. Potato, fruit, and vegetable processing plants, cold storage, and the surrounding farms run long shifts, especially through harvest. The population is young, with a high proportion of children, and many families have relatives working the same plants and fields. Adolescents in these households often interpret for their parents, including at medical appointments.
Getting care in Pasco
For Pasco families, the nearest psychiatric clinician and the right one are often not the same person, because assessment in a patient's second language misses the nuance it depends on. Specialty care beyond the Tri-Cities is a long drive. Plant and farm schedules leave little room for daytime appointments, and taking unpaid time in harvest season is a real cost. Telehealth widens the pool of clinicians a family can see and lets the visit fit around a shift instead of replacing it.
What Pasco patients need from a psychiatric practice
In bilingual communities, language concordance is a clinical requirement rather than a courtesy — psychiatric assessment depends almost entirely on nuance in how someone describes their own experience. Care conducted in a patient's second language, or summarised through a family member, risks getting the answer wrong in either direction.
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.
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 Pasco 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 Pasco, WA?
Yes. Dr. Stacey Forbes, DNP, PMHNP-BC, provides telehealth psychiatric care to patients located in Pasco and throughout Washington.
Do I have to travel to be seen?
No — most care is delivered by secure video, so Pasco patients are seen from home. Our Arlington, TX office is also available for in-person visits.
What services do you offer Pasco 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 Pasco?
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.