Psychiatric Care in Spokane, WA

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

Mental Health Care for Spokane

Spokane sits on the dry side of the Cascades as the medical and commercial centre of the Inland Northwest, drawing patients from eastern Washington, north Idaho, and beyond — sunnier than Seattle, considerably colder, and nearly three hundred miles from it.

Willow & Stone brings doctoral-level, integrative psychiatric care to Spokane and the surrounding Spokane 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.

Our Services for Spokane

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 Spokane residents

Spokane in practice

Spokane is the largest city in eastern Washington, and it functions as the medical, shopping, and professional centre of the Inland Northwest — eastern Washington, north Idaho, and well beyond. It sits on the dry side of the Cascades, so its winters are sunnier than Seattle's but distinctly colder, with snow on the ground for weeks at a time. Fairchild Air Force Base lies just west of the city, putting military families in the ordinary patient mix, and Gonzaga University, Whitworth, and the Spokane campuses of Washington State and Eastern Washington universities add a large student population. Hospitals and distribution centres keep a sizeable share of the city on rotating shifts.

Getting care in Spokane

Because Spokane is the referral destination for a region the size of several states, its psychiatric capacity absorbs demand from far outside the city, and new-patient availability shows it. Patients from the farm and timber towns of the surrounding counties drive in on two-lane highways that winter makes slow and sometimes unsafe, and for a military family a permanent change of station ends a care relationship partway through treatment. Students lose continuity every summer. Video visits keep the appointment when the roads are bad, follow a patient anywhere within Washington, and let a shift worker schedule around a rotation rather than lose a day to it.

What Spokane patients need from a psychiatric practice

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.

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

Care for Spokane 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 Spokane Valley, Kennewick.

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.