I don't actually think degrees have anything to do with intelligence. I have advanced degrees and there are things I do not understand. I have seen/been friends with (different ones) therapists with ph.ds who were dead flat bonkers if not idiots.
I don't think therapists in general are a particularly smart group of people. I think if one was that smart, one would not want to be a therapist.
That one I see became upset one time when I recognized she was asking me a stupid question. She misunderstood and thought I was calling her stupid when in fact I thought she was asking me stupid questions because she was being wily.