DBT Skills Mastery through Music

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Are you currently studying DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy) skills? If you’re like others, you might be struggling to remember the skills when you need them the most even though you are thoroughly committed to mastering DBT’s life changing skills.

Well, we have created a program especially for you called “DBT Skills Mastery through Music!”

This is a fun and engaging way to supplement your DBT skills training groups, gain mastery of DBT skills, & create a brighter future for yourself and those around you.

Join DBT Skills Mastery through Music!

This is for you if you:

Are currently studying (or have studied) DBT skills
Struggle with regulating your emotions
Act impulsively sometimes
Are TIRED of forgetting skills when you need them most!

Music helps make the skills memorable and is a fun way to learn and master the skills.

In this 1 year (renewable) membership you’ll receive a weekly DBT Skill lesson and music based experiences to reinforce the lesson so you can learn them one by one to enhance your life.

You’ll have plenty of time to watch the short videos which focus on one skill at time, and also you’ll get time to digest and implement what you learn into your life.

We know that everyone has a different learning style, so you can choose your preference of video, audio, or written handouts.

As the year unfolds, new topics will be added, allowing you to be able to grab something on the topic of your choice and utilize it when you need it.

Watch this video

to get a taste of what you’ll get in the mindfulness module.

Get complete creative sessions to strengthen each DBT skill as a member.

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What Members are Saying

About DBT Skills Mastery through Music

DBT Skills Mastery through Music is by far the best Online DBT course I've ever taken. I have been in another DBT course and it was not the best experience. I love DBT Mastery. Makes me feel safe in an online environment. The skills taught are life skills and crucial skills to know to be present and tolerate distress and manage emotions. They say music is healing. And that is why I joined. To find healing through Music and to be able to utilize the skills learned in my every day life. I would highly recommend this course to anyone wanting a better life for themselves. Through this course I have managed to change my life around. I have long way yet to go but have come far through this course. This is a perfect opportunity to enhance your skills training experience using music to help build skills mastery. The instructors are very good at teaching the skills in an engaging way. Thank you DBT Mastery through Music for allowing me to grow and share my journey with you all. Love you all.

Luiza M

DBT Warrior

My new job had some challenges for me. When I attended workplace trainings and we talked about some of the trauma families face, sick feelings were stirring up inside of me because of my own severe childhood trauma. I was having nightmares. I was getting sick alot. I was getting headaches and getting very emotional. I was also at a point having just started my job and trying to get caught up after having lost my previous job, that I couldn't really afford to see a therapist regularly, even though I knew I really needed to. I love music. I took a children's music therapy class in college and really enjoyed the class. And, this class was being offered for a monthly fee similar to what my copay for a single week would be with just talk therapy and no music. The bonus is you still get the weekly music therapy lessons and they're easy to access from your home and the music therapist is always quick to respond when you have a question. Great idea!

Angela W

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52 weeks of music therapy inspired DBT skills sessions

and an ever growing resource library

is valued at well over $1000

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for only $33/month
(About $1/day!)

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About Us

We are a group of Board Certified Music Therapists who have completed Behavioral Tech’s DBT Skills Training Program, as well as an in-depth year long DBT informed Music Therapy program that includes 11 months of clinical supervision from a DBT-Linehan Board of Certification Certified PsyD clinician. We all have experience facilitating DBT informed music therapy groups, and are often found co-leading groups with psychologists, social workers, and other DBT skills group leaders.

Deborah Spiegel MT-BC

Deborah Spiegel MT-BC was first introduced to DBT in 2001 when she worked as a member of a Dialectical Behavior Therapy based treatment team at the Colorado Mental Health Institute. She was trained in DBT alongside her treatment team by representatives of Behavioral Tech.

Being a Board- Certified Music Therapist, she found herself using music to teach the skills in her DBT skills training groups, and also reinforcing the DBT skills in her music therapy groups. Over the next 11 years this evolved into her passion for using music therapy to support patients in strengthening DBT skills.

Author of a book in 2010, the 2nd edition, called Creative DBT Activities Using Music – Interventions for Enhancing Engagement and Effectiveness in Therapy, was published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers in 2020.

Deborah’s passion for integrating DBT with music therapy led her to spearhead a research project. Plus it led her to present workshops nationwide since 2011, and eventually online.

She is CEO and director of The Spiegel Academy, which provides online continuing education for music therapists and allied professionals. This includes specializing in providing a comprehensive DBT informed music therapy training program in conjunction with Dr. Lauren Bonavitacola.

Bailey Hinz MT-BC

Bailey Hinz is a board certified music therapist and is currently earning a degree in social work. She has always had a love of music and of people. While earning a bachelor’s degree in music from North Central College, she spent summers as a camp counselor, an experience which inspired her to further pursue work in a helping profession.

In 2013, Bailey received her master’s degree in music therapy from Colorado State University; her graduate thesis was on the utilization of therapeutic music for young women with negative body perception and disordered eating.

Bailey has had the opportunity to work with a variety of populations including mental health, at risk youth, substance abuse, veterans’ needs, hospice, autism spectrum, developmental disability, and diseases of aging. Her greatest passion and life’s purpose, however, lies in mental/ behavioral health.

She loves incorporating music and other creative arts to affect meaningful change in the lives of individuals she serves.

To continue her growth as a clinician, Bailey received her designation as a DBT informed Music Therapist through Behavioral Tech and The Spiegel Academy in 2017. She has been a team member at the Spiegel Academy since 2020.

In her free time, Bailey lives an active lifestyle. She enjoys running, cycling, swimming, camping, and hiking with her trusty pup Benji.

Stephen King MT-BC

Stephen King explored his interest in Music and Psychology with his undergraduate work at Harding University, after which he studied the Masters in Music Therapy program at Texas Woman’s University.

His Music Therapy career allowed for experience with older adults, addiction and recovery, children with developmental challenges, and most recently adolescents with behavioral and emotion regulation difficulties.

In early 2018, Stephen enrolled in The Spiegel Academy in conjunction with Behavioral Tech, to earn his designation as DBT informed Music Therapist.

Combining his interest in electronic music and technology, Stephen brings unique skills to the community of Music Therapy with sessions both online and in-person.

Alice Browne, MT-BC

Alice Browne has a B.S. in Music Therapy from Augsburg University that she received in 1984 and has been practicing music therapy for 36 years.

She has achieved Level, l & ll Certification in Sound healing through Normandale Community College in Minnesota and through Sound Healer Kay Grace.

Alice’s experience includes work with a wide array of populations, including geriatrics, recovering alcoholics, homeless people, autistic children, and people experiencing grief.

She received her DBT- Informed Music Therapy training through the Spiegel Academy, and completed the DBT skills training with Behavioral Tech..

Alice often incorporates visual arts in her therapy sessions.

She has been a wife for 36 years, a mother for 27 years, a mother-in-law for one year, and a cat owner for a very long time.