Sure, they have therapy skills, but I don't see that as making them different, I see that as making them better trained, just as I see a dentist for their training but don't see them as superhuman. Understanding is part of the skillset, omniscience certainly isn't! I'm sure it's harder in therapy where we're treating emotional pains, but it's true in all professions that there are arrogant individuals, whether teachers, engineers, vets or others.

It would be like worshipping a dentist because they had the "secret" to filling a cavity....

My dentist did screw up with me, badly, and I left.

I think if we put therapists in a separate superhuman category, we may be falling prey to our own gullibility, desire to be saved.

I do see how that would be very easy to do, especially with a misguided practitioner who has a know-it-all mentality combined with some charisma.

There are lots of good practicioners who don't, indeed, that's my definition of a good practitioner- self-aware, skilled, helpful, not controlling.

Just like anyone can have kids, anyone with a student loan and some stick-with-it-ness can be a therapist.... just like any job.