The Use of Music Therapy in Counseling: Why Not?

Counseling is an activity of providing professional assistance by the counselor to the client as a party in need of assistance. Music in counseling is used to create a therapeutic relationship between the counselor and the client. Music as a universal language is also increasingly able to support the client to achieve catharsis, which is an effort to express the emotions that have been hidden so far. The purpose of writing this article is to examine and explain the basic knowledge of music therapy in counseling. The literature review used comes from several databases such as Google Scholar and Google Books as well as other supporting books. The results of the study indicate that the use of music therapy in counseling is effective in improving the quality of counseling to be more pleasant, therapeutic, and able to increase the success of counseling services.