Lavender Spectrum Health

Lavender Spectrum Health We provide gender-affirming hormone therapy, PrEP, and primary care services.
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The holidays can bring joy and stress — especially if you’re neurodivergent or have a history of an eating disorder. Sen...
12/14/2025

The holidays can bring joy and stress — especially if you’re neurodivergent or have a history of an eating disorder. Sensory overload, disrupted routines, food pressure, and body comments can make this season hard. You’re not alone, and you’re not doing anything wrong.

Gentle reminders:
✨ Eat what feels safest, not what’s expected
✨ Bring or eat “safe” foods — that’s accommodation, not avoidance
✨ One meal (or season) does not define recovery
✨ You don’t owe anyone an explanation
✨ Boundaries are allowed, even if others are uncomfortable

After hard moments: be gentle with yourself, regulate your nervous system, and remember tomorrow is new data — not a punishment.











🌈🧠 Preparing for the Holidays as a Neurodivergent and/or LGBTQ+ PersonThe holidays can be meaningful—but also overwhelmi...
12/05/2025

🌈🧠 Preparing for the Holidays as a Neurodivergent and/or LGBTQ+ Person

The holidays can be meaningful—but also overwhelming. If you’re neurodivergent, LGBTQ+, or both, it’s absolutely valid to need extra support and planning. Here are a few grounding reminders for the season:

✨ Your needs are real.

Sensory breaks, structure, quiet spaces, access to safe foods, and supportive people aren’t “preferences”—they’re needs.

✨ Set simple, doable boundaries.

Examples:
• “I’ll stay for two hours.”
• “I’m not discussing my identity or relationships.”
• “I need a quiet break space.”

✨ Build your regulation toolkit.

Noise-canceling headphones, stim tools, sunglasses, grounding objects, or scheduled breaks can make gatherings feel safer.

✨ Choose your people intentionally.

Your holiday circle can include chosen family, online community, or any space where you feel affirmed.

✨ Make a personal care plan.

Identify what helps you regulate, who you can reach out to, and what routines you need to protect.

✨ You can opt out.

Not attending events that are unsafe or dysregulating is a valid choice—not a failure.

You are allowed to build a holiday experience that feels safe, affirming, and true to who you are. 💜





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As we’re moving into the holidays, consider shopping our favorite things list for gifts for yourself and others! If you’...
12/02/2025

As we’re moving into the holidays, consider shopping our favorite things list for gifts for yourself and others!

If you’re struggling to figure out what to get your favorite neurospicy, q***r, disabled, or chronically ill human, browse our curated list.

We’ve compiled some of our favorite fidget toys, books, workbooks, sensory items, pain items and devices, weighted blanket, noise canceling headphones and ear buds, speakers, sensory stickers, POTS items, sensory toys, and more!

Your purchase supports the practice.

https://www.lavenderspectrumhealth.com/for-patients/resources/lsh-recommended-items










As we’re moving into the holidays, consider shopping our favorite things list for gifts for yourself and others! If you’...
11/24/2025

As we’re moving into the holidays, consider shopping our favorite things list for gifts for yourself and others!

If you’re struggling to figure out what to get your favorite neurospicy, q***r, disabled, or chronically ill human, browse our curated list.

We’ve compiled some of our favorite fidget toys, books, workbooks, sensory items, pain items and devices, weighted blanket, noise canceling headphones and ear buds, speakers, sensory stickers, POTS items, sensory toys, and more!

Your purchase supports the practice.

https://www.lavenderspectrumhealth.com/for-patients/lsh-favorites










On November 20, 2025 (Trans Day of Remembrance) we mourn the dead and fight like hell for the living at Lavender Spectru...
11/20/2025

On November 20, 2025 (Trans Day of Remembrance) we mourn the dead and fight like hell for the living at Lavender Spectrum Health 🏳️‍⚧️

We provide gender affirming hormone therapy for adults, referrals for gender affirming surgery, letters of support for gender affirming surgery and electrolysis, and numbing shots for gender affirming hair removal in addition to routine primary care.

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We are thrilled to announce Nurse Practitioner Mattie will be joining us in December 2025!Martha “Mattie” Geisheker (she...
11/17/2025

We are thrilled to announce Nurse Practitioner Mattie will be joining us in December 2025!

Martha “Mattie” Geisheker (she/her), RN, MSN, ANP-C 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.







We are thrilled to announce Nurse Practitioner Skyler (they/them) will be joining us at Lavender Spectrum Health in Janu...
11/17/2025

We are thrilled to announce Nurse Practitioner Skyler (they/them) will be joining us at Lavender Spectrum Health in January 2026!

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.









We are now accepting new patients at Lavender Spectrum Health and currently have less than one month wait for new patien...
11/15/2025

We are now accepting new patients at Lavender Spectrum Health and currently have less than one month wait for new patients! We offer primary care, gender-affirming hormone therapy, sexual & reproductive health services, contraception, post-menopausal hormone therapy, wellness visits, chronic illness care, PrEP & STI testing, psychiatric medication, numbing injections for electrolysis, referrals & letters for gender-affirming surgeries for adults, neurodiversity affirming care, eating disorder care, trauma-informed care and more. Reach out to us via call/text at 360-727-1641 or email info@lavenderspectrumhealth.com to learn more. We accept a variety of insurance plans including commercial insurance, Medicare, and Medicaid (OR & WA).











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You Know You Best

✨ Happy Nurse Practitioner Week! ✨At Lavender Spectrum Health, we’re proud to celebrate the NPs who make our model of sl...
11/09/2025

✨ Happy Nurse Practitioner Week! ✨

At Lavender Spectrum Health, we’re proud to celebrate the NPs who make our model of slow, relationship-centered, neurodiversity-affirming care possible.

Our NPs provide:
• 60-minute new-patient visits + 30-minute follow-ups
• Trauma-informed primary care
• Gender-affirming hormone therapy & surgical support with letters and referrals
• Inclusive sexual & reproductive health
• Chronic illness + wellness care
• Mental health medication management
• Sensory-friendly, HAES-aligned care for all bodies

Thank you to our incredible NP team for caring deeply, advocating fiercely, and building a safer healthcare experience for our community. 💜
We see you. We appreciate you. We couldn’t do this without you.

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5500 NE 109th Court Ste A
Vancouver, WA
98662

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