A music therapist is a professional who uses music to promote physical and mental health and healing. Music therapists can help patients relieve pain, anxiety, depression and other emotional problems through music creation, playing, singing, etc., while also improving patients' cognitive abilities and social skills.

Music therapists first appeared in the United States and began to develop in the early 20th century. As the understanding of music therapy continues to deepen, this industry gradually spreads to all parts of the world. In China, the development of music therapists is relatively late, and was introduced around the 1990s.

At that time, China’s medical community began to pay attention to non-drug treatment methods, and gradually introduced emerging fields such as psychological counseling and art therapy. Among them, music therapy, as an innovative and practical non-drug treatment method, has received more and more attention.

Currently, more and more hospitals and institutions in China have begun to offer music therapy services, and more and more people are choosing to become professional music therapists. In the future, as the understanding of music therapy continues to deepen and be promoted, I believe that the development of this industry in China will become better and better.