DBT Informed Music Therapy Center
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.
See the Tools in Action:
The following recordings demonstrate what you’ll get when you join a version of the DBT Skills Mastery through Music membership.
🎵 Bring DBT skills to life in a way that’s engaging, memorable, and easy to implement.
Mindfulness Experience
Mindfulness
.... is at the core of DBT. Each skill lesson begins with a mindfulness experience.
Mindfulness
Mindfulness can bring your awareness to the moment. Paying attention on purpose.
Alice is facilitating a mindfulness activity in this video.
Interpersonal Effectiveness
In online conversations on social media, sometimes posts can get heated. Instead of diving head-on into an argument, the skill called DEAR MAN can be utilized for effective communication.
This is a formula for asking for what you want or saying no to what you don’t want. It’s a DBT skill, which Bailey is teaching here through song.
DEAR MAN
The What Skills
Have you ever been triggered by something or someone, and before you even know it you’re reacting? Maybe you yell or do something else you later regret…
I know we all have.
These impulsive behaviors come from the emotion mind. This song reviews the 3 states of mind. Reasonable, emotional, and wise. And demonstrates the what skills of observe, describe and participate.
States of Mind
This song by Stephen helps strengthen the learning of the 3 States of Mind –
Reasonable Mind
Emotion Mind
Wise mind.
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!