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.
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.
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.
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.
