DBT Skills Mastery Through Music
to fine tune lives
Bring Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills (DBT) to Life Through Music
Whether you’re a clinician, client, or group leader, music makes DBT easier to learn, remember, and actually use.
"These songs and lessons are so helpful! It's helped me remember the skills when I needed them most." JC
With music-based DBT tools you can-
🎶 Break through learning barriers
🧠 Boost attention and motivation
💡 Make DBT skills memorable and practical
🤝 Engage clients, groups, or yourself with music
Grab Your FREE DBT Music Starter Kit!
(Includes lyric sheets, audio tracks, and activity guides — ready to use right away.)
Get Tools That Fit Your Role:
We’ve built resources just for you.
We take the DBT skills you’re working on in the mindfulness, emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness modules of DBT - and turn them into songs, guided activities, and easy-to-follow lessons so you &/or your clients can build mastery in a fun, practical way.
What is DBT?
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is an evidence-based therapy model and set of personal growth skills to help people manage emotions, respond rather than react, and build balanced, fulfilling lives.
Why Music?
Music is engaging, memorable, and effective at reinforcing learning.
Whether you're in a DBT program or simply want to build healthier habits, music-based DBT resources make skills more accessible and enjoyable.
Check Out These Books
Creative DBT Activities Using Music : Interventions for Enhancing Engagement and Effectiveness in Therapy (Jessica Kingsley 2020) 📚 [Get the Book]
This book presents you with a variety of ways to utilize DBT skills with music. It offers tangible assignments that the client can take home and do on their own, or the therapist can use in sessions. No musical background is required to successfully use the activities.
"As a psychologist and life-long musician I've always wanted to better synthesize these two passions to help my patients. Spiegel, Makary, and Bonavitacola, show me (and now you) many effective and practical ways to creatively weave music into DBT! You do not need to be a musician or a psychologist to find these therapeutic activities immediately applicable to your patients, students, and colleagues who are practicing DBT.
Alec L. Miller, PsyD
Creative DBT Activities for Children Using Music : (Jessica Kingsley 2025)
Musical DBT-informed activities that equip educators, therapists, and parents with tools to reach the social and emotional needs of children through fresh and creative activities.
"A great resource for any skills teaching program introducing DBT to younger children. The musical activities have been imaginatively linked to DBT skills helping to make the concepts accessible to younger minds. Each chapter includes a session plan, suggested adaptations and links to supporting resources for flexible use."
Stephanie Hastings PhD, Co-Deputy Director PG Dip DBT, Bangor University
No Musical Talent? No Problem.
Our ready-to-use tools work whether you’re musically trained or not. Everything you need is provided, so you can start right away.
Need a DBT-Informed Music Therapist?
DBT trained board-certified music therapists are available for individual sessions, group facilitation, and team consultation.
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