Bring Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to life through music, songs, and practical activities.
We Believe...
...that combining DBT skills with music therapy is the most engaging and effective way to support people in enhancing their lives and creating a brighter future for themselves, people around them, and the world. Having a passion for this movement has led to the creation of the DBT Informed Music Therapy Center.
Our team consists of DBT-informed, Board Certified Music Therapists who have completed DBT Skills Training and a year-long intensive DBT-informed Music Therapy program—featuring weekly clinical supervision with a team of DBT experts.
Each of us brings hands-on experience facilitating DBT-informed music therapy groups and individual sessions, often in collaboration with psychologists, social workers, and other DBT skills trainers.
Through this work, we've developed innovative, music-based resources to support clinicians, clients, and music therapists in making the acquisition, strengthening, and generalization of DBT skills more engaging and effective.
👉Meet the Therapists & Creative Team
👉Find a Qualified DBT Informed Music Therapist
👉Learn About the Spiegel Academy’s DBT Informed Music Therapy Training Program for existing board certified music therapists
👉Read about research on the effectiveness of combining DBT with music therapy
👉 Join the DBT Music membership for clinicians, people learning DBT, or music therapists.
This book was written by 3 members of our team:
Deborah Spiegel MT-BC
Suzanne Makary MT-BC
Lauren Bonavitacola PsyD, MT-BC
What’s in the book?
Part 1- for clinicians
Group activities with suggestions about how to modify the way each is presented to focus on one DBT skill over another so clinicians can find new session ideas that are useful to your practice.
Part 2- for clients and clinicians
A creative experiential activity for each DBT skill that’s written in a self-help format so that participants can make use of them on their own to learn and reinforce DBT skills. These pages can be printed and used as handouts, shared as take home tools after discharge, or adapted as inspiration for your own session planning.
We look forward to having you join our community and the movement!