My therapist has specializations. When it comes to those, I give her opinion a great deal of weight. She's a LMFT: when I have parenting questions, I'm 65% likely to follow her suggestions. 20% of the time I'll have to give them thought or rework them, 10% of the time they're laughable and I tell her so. Not everything works for everyone, but again, between the time I've had to come to trust her, and the time she's spent working with hundreds of other couples and families, I value her input, even when I don't love it.

However, she's useless on topics in which she doesn't specialize. I surely wouldn't give her opinion much weight in college choice or many other topics where she isn't highly experienced.