Mental Health Clinicians
Mental Health Clinicians
Chantelle, PMHNP - Not Accepting New Patients
Chantelle, PMHNP - Not Accepting New Patients
Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
Chantelle Paulson (she/they) is a board-certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) with a deep commitment to providing compassionate, holistic care. Since 2022, she has been prescribing in community health, drawing on over a decade of diverse healthcare experience.
A life-long resident of the Pacific Northwest, Chantelle is new to the Vancouver community but has long been committed to improving mental and physical well-being in the area. Her healthcare journey began in 2011, starting as a medication aide and caregiver for individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities in a group home setting.
Throughout her career, Chantelle has held a variety of roles, including technician and RN positions working with individuals experiencing severe mental illness in both secure residential and inpatient crisis settings. She also worked for several years as a board-certified medical-surgical nurse in a hospital setting, gaining invaluable experience at the bedside and as a charge nurse.
Chantelle’s diverse background has shaped her holistic approach to healthcare, with a special focus on the intersection of mental and physical health—particularly within underserved communities. Her mission is to continue integrating mental health support into the broader healthcare landscape to ensure access and equity for all individuals.
Chantelle earned her doctorate from Gonzaga University, where she developed a PTSD screening protocol for cancer patients in survivorship at a local oncology clinic. She is excited to collaborate with the primary care providers at Lavender Spectrum to offer well-rounded, holistic care to every patient she serves.
With a special interest in working with neurodivergent and LGBTQ+ individuals, Chantelle incorporates the HAES (Health at Every Size) framework into her care. She personally identifies with all three of these communities. She is committed to practicing anti-racism in both her personal and professional life. Other areas of expertise include medication management for individuals who have psychotic, mood, anxiety, and trauma disorders, and she strives to provide care that respects each individual’s unique experiences and needs.
Chantelle is dedicated to evidence-based practice and continually seeks opportunities to grow her knowledge, attending conferences and consulting medical journals to improve the care she provides.
Outside of her professional life, Chantelle enjoys spending time with her spouse and dog. She also loves camping, creating art, reading, powerlifting, and gardening.
Primary Care Clinicians
Primary Care Clinicians
Skyler FNP - Accepting New Patients!
Skyler FNP - Accepting New Patients!
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.
Natalie FNP - Accepting New Patients
Natalie FNP - Accepting New Patients
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.
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