As hankster reminds us, it's a process, not a sudden thing; if you don't like "professional", drop that word for awhile! Do you "need" it?

My T said she thought I was "kind but critical" and I had a heck of a time with that "critical", even though I know it has two sides (and I am very good at seeing/judging the two sides and being "fair"/honest) and does not mean I am just negatively judgmental.

If nothing else, it is just a word, a tool for your use; if you have no need for that tool right now, don't like how you are using it, don't use it! T is not just professional, not just therapist, not just female, not just married, not just a lover, not just a mother, not just a daughter, not just a college grad, not just a well-paid worker, etc. Those are mostly roles, not the person and we constantly morph in and out of various roles and add/subtract personal attributes to them as the situation calls for. One can be an "angry lover", why not a "loving professional"? Play with your words; they're yours and take on the meanings you give them!