Mattie is a board-certified Adult Nurse Practitioner with over 20 years of experience providing compassionate, evidence-based care across primary care, reproductive health, urgent care, emergency medicine, and veteran trauma recovery settings. She earned both her BSN and MSN from Oregon Health & Science University, completing dual training in Adult and Women’s Health nurse-practitioner tracks. Her clinical background includes serving veterans living with PTSD and complex trauma, supporting individuals across the lifespan with chronic and acute conditions, and delivering full-spectrum gynecologic care, including menopause support, contraceptive management, pelvic health, and trauma-informed reproductive care

Mattie’s approach to care centers on deep listening, patient autonomy, and being fully present with each person she serves. Growing up in a family of ten siblings taught her early that listening is powerful—an ethos that continues to guide her practice today. She is deeply committed to health equity and brings experience working with LGBTQ+ communities, neurodivergent patients, individuals living with trauma, and culturally diverse communities, including service within the Navajo Nation

With a strong belief in the dignity and agency of every person, she strives to create a welcoming, collaborative, and affirming healthcare experience rooted in respect, curiosity, and shared decision-making.

Outside the clinic, Mattie finds grounding in nature and practices a pantheistic connection to the world—seeing the sacred in everyday life and especially in the outdoors. She enjoys time with family and friends, cooking as a meditative practice, and exploring the Pacific Northwest. Mattie is honored to join Lavender Spectrum Health in providing accessible, relationship-based care that uplifts identity, fosters safety, and meets each patient with presence and compassion.

Skyler (they/them) is a family nurse practitioner whose approach to care is rooted in compassion, collaboration, and respect for each person’s autonomy. They bring a unique background in both nursing and social work, with over a decade of experience supporting individuals and communities through trauma-informed, harm-reduction, and equity-driven care.

Before becoming a nurse practitioner, Skyler worked in public health and advocacy—supporting survivors of domestic violence, coordinating care for people living with HIV and hepatitis, and helping design inclusive healthcare  policies at Planned Parenthood. These experiences shaped their belief that everyone deserves healthcare grounded in dignity, body-positivity, and informed choice.

In their clinical work, Skyler provides comprehensive primary care with special interests in chronic pain and fatigue management, mental health, gender-affirming hormone therapy, opioid use disorder, chronic illness, and sexual and reproductive health. They are skilled in procedures such as IUD and Nexplanon insertion and removal, joint injections, biopsies, and trigger-point injections.

Skyler practices from a Health at Every Size (HAES) perspective—focusing on sustainable wellbeing and empowerment rather than weight alone—and partners with patients to make decisions that honor their values and lived experience.

When not in the clinic, Skyler enjoys connecting with community, spending time in nature, mushroom hunting, and exploring creative projects that recharge their spirit.

Lauren (she/her) is a Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) who recently graduated from Oregon Health & Science University. Formerly a birth, abortion, and postpartum doula, Lauren was called to doula work by a passion for reproductive rights and bodily autonomy. Her time spent in this role initially led her to pursue Nurse Midwifery. However, her desire to provide care to people of all genders throughout the lifespan caused her to pivot to the FNP role, and she couldn't be happier about it. She loves being able to provide evidence-based primary care services to all people.

Lauren's central principle to providing healthcare is a deep respect for the person in front of her, their expertise in their own body, and their self-determination. Lauren enjoys meeting her patients where they are at in their health journey, and in particular loves working with those along the LGBTQIA2S+ spectrum, neurodivergent people, and people who live with disabilities and chronic illnesses.

A daughter of Italian immigrants and originally from New York, she has spent 15 years on the west coast but has still managed to maintain her sass. She lives in Portland with her husband, Scott, and her tiny rescue dog, Willow, and firmly believes everyone needs a tiny rescue dog in their lives. In her free time, Lauren likes reading, cooking, baking, nature walks, yoga, and playing board games and video games.

Lauren, like all our providers, also enjoys seeing patients with conditions that are poorly understood such as dysautonomia, hypermobility syndromes, and mast cell issues.

Dr. Iris M (Dr. M) and is excited to be joining Lavender Spectrum Health in May 2025. 

She grew up in a tiny town in western Montana and came to Portland almost 20 years ago. She fell in love with the Pacific Northwest and could not see herself anywhere else. In those years, she finished a degree in Psychology from Portland State University and attended the National University of Natural Medicine in Portland, Oregon where she received her Doctorate in Naturopathic Medicine. For the past 11 years, she has been practicing in the urgent care setting using evidence-based conventional medicine. After life threw her a few curve balls, she realized she missed connecting with her patients and made the decision to move into the primary care setting.

Her approach to patient care is built on four principles:

1. Make it fun. Coming to the doctor should not be scary, shame filled, or disrespectful. She understands many people have had uncomfortable doctor’s appointments in the past. She wants you to look forward to coming to see her. 

2. Work together. She is here to guide, educate, and keep you safe, and will make decisions together with you on where to start and how to achieve your health goals. 

3. Everything is connected. All body systems intersect somewhere. In addition, mental and physical health are deeply intertwined and many times both must be addressed to feel best.

4. Individualized care. One size does not fit all, especially in medicine. Therefore each patient gets a tailored, holistic, and comprehensive care plan based on their specific wants and needs. 

She will be the first to admit change is hard and she is not a huge fan of it, however sometimes it can be exactly what we need (if we let it). She hopes to see you soon!

Iris is a naturopath by training and while she practices similarly to our other providers, insurance coverage including copays and coinsurance may be different from our other providers”

Founder & Family Nurse Practitioner, Lavender Spectrum Health

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.