I dated a t for awhile and several of my friends are therapists (LCSWs). They have their problems and personality flaws like everyone else. They are no more patient, insightful, consistent, etc than anyone else in their real lives. I like my friends who are therapists - several are among my closest friends, but they are just like everyone else, and some have or at least started with huge personal challenges, they have insane families, ill mannered children, dread their mothers etc.