Every therapist I’ve known, including one I have to deal with nonprofessionally, constantly used/use dominance signaling, pretending clairvoyance, knowing the unknowable. They seemed to thrive on creating awe around themselves.

Hierarchy is enforced in subtle ways with many people unaware it’s occurring. (The therapist in a group with me is a bossy braggart who tries to make others her involuntary patient.)