I definitely saw this in my therapists---more than intellectual, they pretended to be sages, masters of Life, with omniscience, clairvoyance and condescension thrown in. I see this grandiosity in so much writing by professionals as they tell everyone else their shortcomings and how they need to fix themselves. I belong to a group on a completely unrelated topic with a counselor member. She's offers unsolicited "life lessons" in between her own self-promoting and declarations about her caring. She holds herself up as a relationship counselor.