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Oregon: Portland

Kerry Moran, M.A.
1308 NW 20th Ave., Suite 7
Portland OR 97209
tel. 503-525-1172
kerrymoran@earthlink.net
www.innerintegrity.com

Inner integrity is our basic nature -- the effortless emotional wholeness that is our human birthright. When we tune into our direct experience as it actually is in the moment -- not what our heads think about it, but what we actually experience -- we find ourselves able to act in alignment with life, rather than wrestling with it.

Sounds simple? It is -- and yet it's not. Most of us have years of practice in dissociating from our inner experience, or in struggling to control it. Somewhere along the way we started believing that life is too painful to fully accept and experience just as it is. We started shutting down, judging ourselves (or others), criticizing ourselves (or others), filtering our raw experience through a subconscious tape loop of old voices.

The therapeutic work I do is aimed at clearing away this confusion so that we can reconnect with our actual experience. As a presence-centered psychotherapist, I blend the insights of depth psychology with the tools of Buddhist meditation practice to focus on the truth of the present moment.

To be able to stay with your own experience and allow it to be just as it is -- this is the practice of awareness and compassion combined. Healing, in this model, comes about through relating to your problems and yourself with the spacious awareness that is your basic nature. Releasing the illusions of control as expressed through the addiction to answers and agendas, you learn to embrace the ongoing process of life as it arises in each moment.

My work is primarily with individual adults -- generally in person, sometimes by phone or email consultation. I charge $95 an hour, and do not accept insurance. Visit my website, www.innerintegrity.com, to learn more about my practice.

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