Do therapists go to therapy?

A therapist’s role generally involves giving clients tools to make decisions, a therapist might be helping clients through trauma, depression, childhood issues, help a client weigh the pros and cons of decisions they are making, and help a client “play it forward” to determine the long term effects of any decision. Although this is an oversimplified list, you can get the gist. A therapist has to stay neutral emotionally and not allow their own feelings and emotions inch their way into therapy. Imagine going around all day and having to not get emotionally reactive at all in decision making. So, YES, a therapist often has their own therapist. This can not only help them to be better therapists themselves by staying emotionally on target, but can offer the same benefits as anyone who goes to therapy.
Can’t a therapist “therapize” themselves?
I often giggle when people think that a therapist can provide therapy on themselves. Sure, a therapist might go through the same processes they have clients go through to make a decision, however therapy is more than going through a checklist. A therapist listens to what a client is saying and navigating the therapy process based on a clients needs, perspectives and desires. A therapist is supposed to stay neutral and objective on behalf of clients and no one can be neutral and objective when it comes to their own lives. The best example I can give is that a surgeon can’t perform surgery on themselves. Not only is it (probably) physically impossible, but they wouldn’t have their objectivity which allows them to be a good surgeon.