How to make certain page templates visible to admin only

Rather than defining them as custom page templates, you have an alternative.

Use the page specific templates, e.g. for a profile page, with the slug profile you could create a page-profile.php in your theme, or you can use page-21.php where 21 is the ID of that page/post.

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