The basic principles upheld by social constructionists are outlined in this article. Social constructionist practitioners insist that helping professionals should take a critical stance toward our taken-for-granted ways of understanding the world, including ourselves. Such an emphasis broadens the understanding of knowledge and language of the counseling professionals that sheds light on their own clinical practice. Although there are several obstacles that hinder the development of social constructionist principles in counseling and social work in the sociocultural context of Hong Kong, the contributions of social constructionist thoughts to counseling and social work practice should be realized. We agree to the view of Dean and Fleck- Henderson (1992) that “to be consistently reflective about our own assumptions, our own positions and biases, in our knowledge of others and in our relations to our own theories, it keeps us appropriately humble” (p. 18). Obviously, reflection and humility are valuable qualities of a counselor in a world that gives heavy emphases on expertise and qualifications.