Mental Health Care for Redmond
Redmond is defined by Microsoft's headquarters campus, and its neighbourhoods are filled with young engineering families who moved to the Eastside for the work.
Willow & Stone brings doctoral-level, integrative psychiatric care to Redmond and the surrounding King County area 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 Redmond residents
Redmond in practice
Redmond is home to Microsoft's headquarters campus, and the city's growth over the past three decades has followed it. Neighbourhoods on the plateau and in the valley are filled with engineering and product families, many of them young, many from overseas, and many with children in local schools. The work rewards long periods of deep focus, which is one reason adult attention difficulties often surface late, after a promotion into a role full of meetings and coordination. Parents raising children far from extended family carry the full load themselves.
Getting care in Redmond
Redmond has the resources but not always the time. Appointments with well-regarded local practices fill weeks ahead and fall inside working hours, and commuting between Redmond, Bellevue, and Seattle on SR 520 and I-405 eats into the margins of the day. Parents with young children rarely have a free afternoon. A video appointment fits into the space between a morning stand-up and school pickup, and a longer visit leaves room to discuss the reasoning behind a treatment plan — which is what these patients usually want.
What Redmond 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.
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.
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.
Transparent Cash-Pay Care
Care for Redmond 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 Redmond, WA?
Yes. Dr. Stacey Forbes, DNP, PMHNP-BC, provides telehealth psychiatric care to patients located in Redmond and throughout Washington.
Do I have to travel to be seen?
No — most care is delivered by secure video, so Redmond patients are seen from home. Our Arlington, TX office is also available for in-person visits.
What services do you offer Redmond 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 Redmond?
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.