I had to do A LOT of my own work with books... for a reason I think you would be very likely to run into... Your IQ is flipping off the charts. It is very difficult IMO to work with a therapist with a significantly lower IQ than your own. I think one of the largest factors in my success with my current T is that she is friggin brilliant... absent minded and quirky... but brilliant!

The risk in being your own T is that you may not have an external feedback loop which is very important to keep things clear and less biased (sorry... my bias is that unbiased doesn't exist).

I believe, in the specific work I did with books, I was very successful and when I went for my psych eval the evaluator seemed to agree. I did rely strongly on a very small group of close friends with varying understandings of psychology and a retired T who was a friend to do reality checks along the way.