London - Central > EC : 2A > Simone Huber Name:   Simone Huber    The Gestalt Centre I practise at:   London, EC2A   Phone:   07903 938 737      Prof. membership:   BACP  -  British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy   Gestalt therapy is a caring, welcoming and creative approach in which the counsellor remains open and respectful of the client's experience. It has drawn its inspiration from many different theories as well as Taoism and Zen Buddhism. The aim is always to increase awareness. As a Gestalt counsellor I am concerned with the meaning a client gives to his or her life-events, experiences and relationships with other people. I am concerned with the client's faithfulness to him or herself as a person. Often clients come because they want to initiate a change in their lives. If what is wished for is not the same as what is 'now' a client feels stuck. Counselling helps exploring these two states and helps to stay in what is here 'now' so the client can start to experience a flow from his or her stuckness again. Ideally what is wished for then becomes a by-product of a healthier attitude to his 'here and now' experience. A goal of therapy is looking at what is rather than focussing on what is not here yet, so that paradoxically change can happen. Our belief is that change cannot happen unless we first embrace and fully look at what is. So in a way our goal becomes a by-product of being and staying in the momentary experience, the "here and now".