The Beaverton location of Lice Charmers Lice Clinic serves families on the west side of the Portland metro area, including Beaverton, Hillsboro, Aloha, Tigard, Tualatin, Sherwood, and the surrounding Washington County communities. The clinic operates on the same schedule as the original Portland location, with the same single-visit, chemical-free treatment protocol and the same pricing.
Lice Charmers Lice Clinic technicians spend time on education during each visit. Families leave with practical understanding of how lice actually spread, what really needs to be cleaned at home, and how to monitor for any return of the problem in the days ahead. Many parents arrive with anxiety-driven plans to bag every stuffed animal in the house and wash every fabric on hot, then learn from the technician that very little of that is actually necessary. The educational element regularly comes up in customer reviews.
Mobile in-home service is available across the Portland metro area for families who would rather not bring a child to a clinic. A certified technician brings the AirAllé device and all supplies to the home and provides the same single-visit treatment in a familiar setting. The mobile option is particularly popular with families who have multiple children to treat at once, families with very young kids who would struggle through a clinic visit, and families who simply prefer the privacy of an at-home appointment.
A school exposure notice is a common reason Portland-area families end up at Lice Charmers Lice Clinic. Drugstore products often fail because head lice have developed resistance to the pesticides those treatments rely on, a problem that has steadily worsened over the past two decades. Many of the families who book at the clinic have already tried two or three rounds of over-the-counter treatment and watched the problem return each time before deciding that a different approach was needed.
Over 200 five-star reviews from Portland-area families point to the same pattern: families arrive stressed and leave with the problem resolved in one appointment. Reviewers consistently mention the calm, non-judgmental tone of the staff, the speed of the treatment, and the practical guidance they take home. The free head check service also gets mentioned often, as it lets parents confirm whether there is actually a problem before committing to a full appointment, particularly after a school exposure notice.
Lice Charmers Lice Clinic operates two brick-and-mortar locations in the Portland area, a Portland clinic on SE Gladstone Street and a Beaverton clinic serving the west side of the metro area. Both clinics keep the same hours: 7am to 8pm, every day of the year, including weekends and holidays. The wide hours exist intentionally, because lice problems rarely strike at convenient times. A school nurse calls on a Friday afternoon, or a parent finds lice the night before a family vacation, and the clinic needs to be reachable.
The Lice Charmers Lice Clinic calm tone is a deliberate feature of how the clinic operates. Many families arrive embarrassed or anxious, and the staff are trained to take the stigma out of the situation and address it as the routine medical issue it really is. The clinic operates on the premise that the social discomfort around head lice is more harmful and more persistent than the lice themselves, and that a professional, non-judgmental visit can do as much to relieve a family as the treatment does.
Treatment at Lice Charmers Lice Clinic costs roughly $189 to $260 per person depending mostly on hair length. Itemized receipts are issued for families filing FSA, HSA, or insurance claims, and many families recover some portion of the cost through their plan. The clinic also provides free professional head checks for parents who are not yet sure whether their child actually has lice, which is particularly useful when a school sends home an exposure notice but the parent has not been able to confirm anything visually.
Free professional head checks are available at Lice Charmers Lice Clinic for any Portland-area family that wants confirmation of a possible head lice infestation. The service is particularly useful after a school exposure notice when nobody is sure yet whether there is actually a problem. A technician examines the scalp under a bright light, looks for live lice and viable nits, and gives the family a clear answer in a few minutes. There is no obligation to book a full treatment if no infestation is found.
The clinic was founded in June 2017 by Alexis Charriere and Conor Duggan. Several years on, it is still family-owned and family-operated. That ownership structure matters to the founders, who built Lice Charmers Lice Clinic around the kind of treatment they would want for their own kids and who continue to set the tone for how the operation runs. The single-visit, chemical-free approach has been the defining feature of the clinic since the doors first opened in Southeast Portland.
At the heart of every Lice Charmers Lice Clinic appointment is the AirAllé device. This FDA-cleared tool delivers carefully controlled heated air that dehydrates head lice and their nits in a single 90-minute session, with no follow-up shampoo schedule required. The technician then completes a thorough comb-out to remove the dead lice and the remaining nit casings. The whole appointment is designed to resolve the infestation in one visit, which is the central reason families choose the clinic over multi-week drugstore approaches.
No pesticides are involved at any point in a Lice Charmers Lice Clinic appointment. The treatment relies entirely on heated air and physical comb-out work, which matters to families who would rather not apply chemicals like permethrin to a child's scalp. This becomes more important every year, as head lice populations have developed widespread resistance to the active ingredients in drugstore products. The Lice Charmers approach sidesteps that resistance problem entirely by using physical dehydration rather than a chemical that the lice may have already evolved past.