Takes Blue Cross Blue Shield, UnitedHealthcare · first visit $450
Brooke Bina is a nurse-midwife who runs a small practice focused only on perimenopause and menopause, with evidence-based hormone therapy at its center. She sees patients by video anywhere in Oregon or North Dakota, and in person at Alma Midwifery's clinic in Portland. The first visit is a long one that covers your full history, a plan, prescriptions and any labs or imaging. After that you can book a regular follow-up or a short visit for a single question like a refill. Her symptom list goes well past hot flashes and includes frozen shoulder, tinnitus, burning mouth and recurrent urinary infections. She does not see anyone enrolled in Medicare, including Medicare Advantage.
Takes Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield · first visit $300
Dr. Benkley is a naturopathic doctor whose practice centers on perimenopause and menopause. She sees patients in person at Mandala Medicine and Wellness in southeast Portland and by video anywhere in Oregon, Washington and New Hampshire. The first visit is a long intake followed by labs. She lays out the full treatment plan at a follow-up about four weeks later. Treatment can include menopausal hormone therapy, non-hormonal medications, supplements and lifestyle changes, with attention to long-term heart and bone health. She does not do primary care, and her practice openly welcomes queer, non-binary and trans patients with ovaries.
Takes Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna +1 · first visit $220
Wildwood Physical Therapy is a two person clinic in Portland run by Kana Arreguin and her husband, who are both physical therapists. Kana treats female pelvic floor problems and breast cancer related lymphedema, and every session with her is one on one and runs 55 minutes. Her menopause work is physical therapy rather than medication, covering pelvic floor symptoms, urinary urgency, pain with sex, joint stiffness and balance. The site says she works with menopause specialists who can prescribe hormone therapy, so any prescribing happens elsewhere. She leans on hands on manual therapy and often acts as a case manager coordinating with other Portland providers, and she states plainly that she does not treat male pelvic floor concerns or lower body lymphedema. New patients start by emailing their details rather than booking online.
Dr. Melvin is a naturopathic physician at Meliora Clinic, a small integrative primary care practice in Southeast Portland that also offers acupuncture and bodywork. Her focus is women's health, menopause care, sexual and reproductive health, and primary care. She prescribes menopausal hormone therapy alongside conventional medications, botanicals and lifestyle changes. She trained in a three-year residency in integrative women's health and family medicine, where she did gynecologic procedures and managed perimenopause and menopause. She also teaches gynecology to naturopathic students, and her care is LGBTQIA+ affirming.
Cascade Women's Health is one of the few independent gynecology practices left in Portland, with an office across the street from Good Samaritan Hospital. Three doctors share the clinic now, after four of its physicians retired. Dr. Dion trained at Vanderbilt and has practiced in Portland since 2007, and her bio says she is especially passionate about preventive care and perimenopause and menopause care. She is also a breast cancer survivor, and she spent a year working as a wine chemist before medical school. The practice writes its own patient handouts, so a woman leaves with the clinic's own instructions on things like managing vaginal dryness or taking cyclical progesterone. Colposcopy, biopsies and hysteroscopy are done in the office, and video visits are open to new as well as established patients, though most annual exams have to happen in person.
Dr. Frederick is an OB/GYN at Women's Healthcare Associates, a large women's health group with offices across the Portland area. She sees patients at the Bridgeview office in Northwest Portland and names menopause, contraception and lifestyle medicine as her main interests. Before medicine she spent two years working as an EMT, and she later did a fellowship in family planning at Stanford. Menopause care usually starts at a wellness or gynecology visit where she goes over your symptoms and history, and treatment can sometimes begin that same day. She uses standard hormone therapy, testosterone for low libido after menopause, and non-hormonal medicines. Video visits are available as long as you are in Oregon at the time.
Christina Cameli runs a small solo practice from inside the ila Health offices in southeast Portland, and she came to menopause care from nurse-midwifery. Her site has a page answering the question of why a midwife sees people who are not pregnant. Visits are long, patients book their own appointments, and all between-visit messaging goes through the patient portal, where a reply can take up to five business days. She prescribes hormone therapy when it fits and keeps non-hormonal options for people who cannot or would rather not use hormones. She says plainly that she will not chase hormone levels, does not prescribe weight-loss medication, and recommends against hormone pellets, which she has written about at length. She asks patients to keep their own primary care provider for routine bloodwork and anything outside menopause, she wants at least one in-person visit a year, and new patients join a waitlist she calls long.
Dr. Williams is managing partner of The Oregon Clinic's all women obstetrics and gynecology office on the Legacy Emanuel hospital campus in north Portland. She joined The Oregon Clinic in 2014 when her own group Everywoman's Health merged into it. Her listed areas of focus include menopause and hormone replacement therapy including bioidentical, alongside full spectrum obstetrics, vulvar and vaginal dermatology, infertility and minimally invasive surgery. She is board certified in integrative medicine as well as obstetrics and gynecology, and she has training in functional medicine, acupuncture and homeopathy. The office keeps Saturday hours and takes new patients without a referral, and established patients can book some visits themselves in the clinic portal. She is a certified Pilates and GYROTONIC instructor and speaks fluent Spanish.
Dr. Cantor is a family physician in the primary care division at the OHSU Center for Women's Health in Portland. She sees women and girls from age 12 onward and provides general primary care alongside menopause care. Her OHSU profile lists women's health and menopause as her clinical focus, and she became a Menopause Society Certified Practitioner in 2024. The clinic treats menopause symptoms as part of primary care and can refer patients to a separate menopause specialty clinic at the same center. OHSU describes hormone therapy given as pills, patches, gels, sprays or vaginal forms, and non-hormonal options such as SERMs and low dose antidepressants. She is also a senior investigator at the OHSU evidence based practice center, where her reviews have informed national women's health guidelines.
