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The cultural encounters of counselors-counselees have great influence to the success of counseling services. Counseling services in Indonesia still use western theory, have not considered the value of eastern culture. One of the study of Indonesian culture, especially East Java contains uniqueness in presenting the process of counseling aid. East Java has seven ethnics namely Osing, Tengger, Madura, Java, Samin, Materaman, and Bawean. The study of the seven East Java ethnics will give birth to a new paradigm of eastern cultural counseling-local wisdom. The positive impact of counseling services cultural-based has strategic value: building internal and external counseling service imaging, facilitating counselors while serving counselees with culture diversity with appropriate change techniques, and Cognitive-Behavioral Counseling based on local wisdom becomes new counseling paradigms in Indonesia especially in East Java. Cognitive-Behavioral Counseling framework is a form of counseling that incorporates the principles and procedures of Cognitive counseling and Behavioral counseling in an effort to help the counselee in achieving expected behavioral changes.
Hidayah et al. (Sun,) studied this question.