Music therapy has gained increasing recognition as a non-pharmacological approach to promoting mental health, emotional well-being, and human flourishing. At the same time, advances in digital technologies, including tele-music therapy, artificial intelligence, mobile health applications, and other digital therapeutics, have transformed the ways in which therapeutic musical interventions are delivered and experienced. Despite growing empirical evidence supporting the effectiveness of music therapy, its philosophical foundations remain insufficiently explored, particularly within technology-mediated environments. Adopting philosophical and theoretical methods, this research developed a philosophical understanding of music therapy in the digital age by integrating contemporary empirical research with insights from pragmatism, phenomenology, existential philosophy, narrative theory, and an Igbo conception of relational personhood. Drawing on the works of William James, John Dewey, Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, and Paul Ricoeur, this research argues that music therapy should be understood not merely as a clinical technique for symptom reduction but as a meaningful human practice that promotes self-understanding, relational connectedness, identity reconstruction, and flourishing. The article further proposes the Relational Theory of Musical Healing, which interprets healing as the restoration and strengthening of meaningful relationships with oneself, others, community, and sources of purpose. While digital technologies expand access to therapeutic resources, they also raise important concerns regarding authenticity, embodiment, emotional manipulation, and the commodification of healing. The research concludes that music therapy reveals healing to be an existential and relational achievement and that the future of digital therapeutic practice depends on preserving the human dimensions of meaning, connection, and flourishing.

Keywords: Music therapy, digital age, relational healing, tele-therapy, pragmatism.