New Delhi, Sept. 19 -- Therapists hold space for difficult emotions and guide their clients to navigate through them. In the process, they need to learn how to take care of their mental health and have a clear mind. One way to be a better counsellor is to seek therapy.

Sanskar Sinha, a young counselling psychologist from Bhopal, assumed he was self-aware because he could name his problems: "But I had no real sense of my body, my nervous system or what I was actually feeling underneath. Once I started noticing that, through expressive arts therapy especially, I saw patterns in my life I had missed for years."

A client enters a therapy room with the trust that what comes back to them is not a reflection of their therapist's past. Since th...