Why
Music Therapy?
​A New Healing Choice for Your Body, Mind, and Soul
More than music tastes,
Music therapy as an interactive experiences
heal psychological distress, to transform emotions
being an expression, spiritual growth and achievement.
When we hear joyful music, our spirits are lifted; when we listen to sorrowful melodies, we may feel downhearted. As life’s unspoken struggles and pressures accumulate, can music assist us in releasing our emotions?
Music therapy goes beyond passive music listening — it is a sustained, active, and multi-faceted approach that fosters emotional resonance. By sharing rhythm, melody, and harmony to understand clients’ emotions, and engaging in interactive methods such as songwriting and improvisation, it facilitates *non-verbal* expression.
With the therapist’s guidance, clients participate in music experiences that explore the nature of their emotions and life challenges, ultimately empowering them to overcome psychological barriers and achieve personal growth. What distinguishes music therapy is not merely the use of music, but the focus on therapeutic processes centered around music experiences as both the primary goals and outcome of therapy.
Beyond medictaion,
How music therapist supports clients for Intangible mental struggles?
Society often relies on social workers, medication, and psychiatric consultations for mental health support, focusing on analysis and symptom-based solutions. For those with communication difficulties, trauma, or mental illness, music as a medium leads them to express themselves and better connect with their mind, body, and soul.Therefore, music therapy can be one of the treatment options for those with emotional needs, offering more choices and hope for themselves.
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Within music therapy, board certified music therapists adopt a more holistic approach. By deeply understanding a client’s life, cultural backgrounds, thoughts, preferences, and needs, therapist designs tailored, structured, goal-oriented music interventions that incorporate:
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Music expertise in theory, song composition and arranging, performance skills, functional use of music skills and conducting skills and improvisation evidence-based psychophysiological rehabilitation research;
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Accumulated real case and assessment framework;
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Interdisciplinary collaboration with healthcare professionals when needed
Through interactive music processes, clients develop effective emotional regulation skills.
The music therapist is not a music performer. We focus on establishing trust and building therapeutic relationships while creating a safe and autonomous therapeutic space.
The renowned American music therapy scholar and clinical music therapist, Bruscia (2014) points out that music therapists should accept the client’s musical efforts and tastes without judgment, and accept the client wherever she is, to offer unconditional positive regard.
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Music therapists adjust the treatment progress and methods according to the client’s psychological state. Guiding clients to express non-verbal emotions in tangible ways—such as through instruments, drawing, or songwriting to help resolve and clarify emotional burdens. Through interactive connection, the therapist builds a reliable client-therapist relationship:
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Encouraging them to explore emotional coping strategies applicable to daily life;
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Provides real-time feedback, guidance, and active listening to reinforce progress;
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Empowers client to internalize skills, ensuring they can independently regulate emotions and thought patterns long after therapy ends.
Who are
Board-certified Music Therapists?
According to the regulations set by American Music Therapy Association,
to become a music therapist:
One must complete an accredited college or university-affiliated program at the Bachelor’s level or higher and achieve 1,200 hours of clinical training, which consists of a six-month full-time internship.
A music therapist must possess strong practical music skills with extensive knowledge in psychological, philosophical, physiological, and sociological foundations of music as therapy.
Candidates must pass a nationally administered board (Certification Board for Music Therapists [CBMT]) certification exam to receive the credential MT-BC (Music Therapist-Board Certified).
A music therapist is required to complete 100 hours of continuing education in music therapy, which must include a minimum of 3 hours of Ethics Training every five years. Alternatively, certificants must retake and pass the CBMT examination during the fourth year of their five-year recertification cycle.