Thank you so much for this beautiful comment. I totally agree. Seeing a philosopher who sees the world in terms of logic will be totally incompatible with something that relates to the world through emotion, poetry, narrative, and so on. And this will be the real trouble in the future, if we get more consulting philosophers, because philosophy has so many different avenues.
My own opinion of this will be totally biased because I am immersed in the field, wanting to become a practicing and consulting philosopher. In my country, there are only about three or four people who practice it. So, still many waters need to flow into the ocean before anything really happens.
I hope to write one of the first kind of empirical papers soon, getting something published so we can move forward!
That is very exciting!
I didn't even know that such a thing as consulting philosophers exist at all... I wonder how that would be in other parts of the world?
In anyway I love the way you are going there!
It is a very small field, with growing interest around the world. In South Africa, it is still very small, with only a handful of people practising it. I really hope to be one of those few who have a practice open!