Dr. Erin Fettes (she/her/hers)

Thank you for your interest in partnering with me on your healing path

It is bittersweet that you are here - if you are here, it is because you are hurting with a very particular pain. I know, I have been there.

First let me share about myself. I am a white, queer, small-fat, cisgender femme, originally from Michigan and living in Oregon since 2019.

I attended Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida for my doctoral education and completed my pre-doctoral internship and post-doctoral training at the VA Pacific Islands Health Care System in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. Before moving into private practice, I worked for years in VA Medical Centers in California and Oregon.

The present focus on my therapeutic work has personal roots. My own path of trying to conceive has had heartache and many challenges - including queer family building needs using donor gametes, many rounds of IUI, moving into IVF, experiencing failed embryo transfers, and pregnancy loss. I have worked with many reproductive health providers and clinics (midwives, reproductive endocrinologists, acupuncturists, therapists) for my own TTC efforts, and first hand navigated these medical settings deeply rooted anti-fat biases and misunderstanding the needs of queer patients.

I share this so you may know we are fellow travelers not only in the human experience but in this as well. My commitment to co-creating a space where you feel deeply understood, witnessed and cared for grows out of the knowledge of how important it is to be held well while pursuing dreams of parenthood.

Embedded within my psychotherapy work is a desire to facilitate connection with our highest and most loving selves, with love for self, our people, nature, the future and the world. For this reason, I chose the name Higher Heart Psychology.

As for some of my many loves, I adore spending time with my wife and family (including our always cold tiny dog…y’all she is literally so chilly at ALL times), perfecting tea lattes, nail art, reading (mostly non-fiction but I love, love, love a good romance), starting and stopping many hobbies (I have knit exactly one dog sweater).