Mental Health Care for Yakima
Yakima is the commercial centre of an orchard and hop-growing valley east of the Cascades, beside the Yakama Nation, with a large Spanish-speaking agricultural workforce whose hours follow the harvest.
Willow & Stone brings doctoral-level, integrative psychiatric care to Yakima 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 Yakima residents
Yakima in practice
Yakima is the commercial centre of a valley of orchards, vineyards, and hop fields on the dry side of the Cascades, and agriculture shapes its calendar: packing houses and fruit warehouses run long shifts through harvest and storage season. A large share of the city and valley is Latino, and Spanish is the first language of many households. To the south lies the Yakama Nation's reservation, and Yakama members live and work throughout the area. The valley also contends with distance — the farm towns below Yakima are a long drive from any specialist — and with economic swings tied to crop prices and weather.
Getting care in Yakima
Specialty psychiatric care in the valley is limited, and referrals beyond it mean crossing the Cascades to Seattle or driving to the Tri-Cities. For a farmworker family, that is unpaid time lost in the season when income is earned. Language concordance is a clinical requirement here rather than a courtesy, and assessment through an interpreter or a child misses a great deal. For Yakama patients, care that works alongside tribal health services and community supports is far more likely to be kept. Video visits shorten the distance, fit around harvest hours, and widen the choice of clinician.
What Yakima patients need from a psychiatric practice
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.
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.
Psychiatric care in and around Native communities works best when it accounts for community and family context rather than treating the individual in isolation, and when it sits alongside traditional practices instead of competing with them. Care that ignores either is generally care a patient does not return to.
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 Yakima 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 Yakima, WA?
Yes. Dr. Stacey Forbes, DNP, PMHNP-BC, provides telehealth psychiatric care to patients located in Yakima and throughout Washington.
Do I have to travel to be seen?
No — most care is delivered by secure video, so Yakima patients are seen from home. Our Arlington, TX office is also available for in-person visits.
What services do you offer Yakima 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 Yakima?
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.