Founder & Family Nurse Practitioner Natalie Paul

Natalie Paul is a visionary Family Nurse Practitioner, primary care innovator, and the founder of Lavender Spectrum Health, a radically inclusive private practice in Vancouver, WA. With nearly a decade of experience providing comprehensive primary and specialty care, she is transforming what healthcare can look like when the needs of queer, disabled, neurodivergent, and other historically marginalized communities are placed at the center—not the margins.

Driven by the belief that relationship-based, trauma-informed care is not only ethical but essential, Natalie has built a practice model that challenges traditional medicine's limitations. Lavender Spectrum Health reflects her lifelong commitment to designing systems where patients are seen as whole people and where complex care needs are met with curiosity, collaboration, and dignity. Her approach integrates extended appointment times, specialty reproductive and sexual health services, advanced gender-affirming care, behavioral health integration, and innovative procedural capabilities such as local anesthesia for electrolysis—all within primary care.

Natalie brings deep clinical expertise across chronic disease management, complex pain, neurodivergence, connective tissue disorders, and advanced hormone therapy. She is trusted for her intuitive and evidence-based care, especially for individuals whose conditions are often misunderstood or dismissed. Throughout her career, she has mentored other clinicians, shaped institutional guidelines on inclusive care, delivered continuing education to large health systems, and consistently advocated for reimbursement parity and systemic reform.

She has served diverse communities in urban, rural, and telehealth environments; provided bilingual exams in Spanish to migrant workers; and led public health outreach initiatives from homeless youth shelters to flu vaccination campaigns. Her work is informed not only by clinical excellence but also by her academic background in cognitive neuroscience and published research on trauma, depression vulnerability, and stress physiology.

As founder, strategist, and care provider, Natalie is redefining what sustainable, values-driven healthcare can be—proving that high-quality, financially viable primary care is possible when we design for those most often excluded. She is known by her patients and colleagues alike for her depth of compassion, her fierce advocacy, and her unwavering commitment to building a future of healthcare where all bodies, minds, and identities are honored.