While it would be *nice* to have a therapist who can directly relate to working 9am-5pm in a cubicle, I think I would be wasting my time trying to find a therapist who has. (I'm not saying you were suggesting this... I'm just speaking in general.) So the best I'm going to do is find a therapist who has done her homework and has *maybe* gone to one or more conferences about work/career issues. Even finding a therapist with that specific experience/knowledge is hard to come by IMO. So that's something we have to take into consideration here. We're 99% of the time starting off with a T who is inexperienced with respect to cubicles.

That aside, I don't think a T needs to have direct experience working in a typical white collar work setting in order to give solid work/career advice. Will your average "non-cubicle" T be able to give solid advice? I agree that we don't know.

Sometimes my T admits when she is not sure about work/career stuff, but then she'll offer a textbook answer so that I can possibly help guide myself. Meh. I suppose it's better than nothing. At least she admits when she can't help. I think admitting is the key. Plus, she knows a lot about human interaction in general (well, duh... she's a therapist!), so I think some of that knowledge can be very useful.

But back to my main point: Since we have basically a 1% chance of finding a "cubicle" T, we can't expect the T to be attuned to the workforce at all. It would be nice, but I don't think we should expect. As such, going to therapy for a work/career issue is a real gamble and I personally wouldn't rely on my T's advice.