Kaleidoscopic Shifts: The Development of New Understandings as Therapists “Go and Find out”

Abstract

In order to provide a contextual backdrop, I offer the following: I am a faculty member and The Training Director of the Counseling Psychology Doctoral Program at Our Lady of the Lake University. As a counseling psychologist trained in systemic and marriage and family traditions, living and working in the United States, I am aware that my clinical perspective and counseling experiences are keenly and insidiously shaped by demographic variables: age, training, culture, geographic location, and more. These descriptors inform both my active and passive vision—in other words, how I see and how I am seen. These are some of my lenses through which I view the world. Yet, simultaneously, I am reminded of the mighty kaleidoscope, in which the smallest shift of die lens, the most delicate turn of the visual field, changes everything! (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)