Hire a DBT Informed Board-Certified Music Therapist


A qualified DBT-informed Board-Certified Music Therapist can provide individual or group sessions to help you or your clients develop and strengthen DBT skills through music, and are often part of a treatment team.

Our Board Certified music therapists are professionally trained to use music and music activities in a prescribed manner to reach individualized non-musical goals .

As DBT informed music therapists, we help participants learn, strengthen, generalize and build mastery of DBT skills to enhance their lives and create a life worth living.

Qualified DBT Informed Music Therapists

The professionals listed below are Board-Certified Music Therapists who have earned the designation of DBT Informed Music Therapist.

What Makes these Practitioners Qualified

Each of the individuals listed below has completed an intensive, yearlong DBT Informed Music Therapy Training through The Spiegel Academy. This comprehensive program includes:

  • - In-depth DBT skills training

  • -12 months of clinical supervision from a team of DBT experts including Dr. Lauren Bonavitacola, a DBT-Linehan Board of Certification Certified Clinician (PsyD)

  • -Ongoing mentorship as they learned to implement DBT with music therapy

  • -Direct implementation of DBT-informed music therapy in clinical practice

These Board-Certified Music Therapists have demonstrated competency in facilitating DBT-informed sessions and often co-lead skills groups alongside psychologists, social workers, and other DBT-trained clinicians.

Browse by Region

West Coast, East Coast, Midwest, South Central, South East, and Virtual.


📍 Note: Many therapists offer telehealth and can work with clients across state lines.

West

Jessica Shaller-Gerweck MT-BC

Albany, OR.

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Betsey Carle MT-BC

Portland, OR (retired)

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Naomi Black MT-BC

Phoenix, AZ

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Virtual

Stephen King MT-BC

Central Texas Region

Virtual available

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Alice Browne MT-BC

Minneapolus, MN

Offering individual and group

virtual sessions

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Cheryl Mozdian MT-BC

Northeast Pennsylvania Music Therapy-individual and groups

DBT informed music therapy skills groups, virtual sessions available

Early Childhood Music ClassesConsultation

HealthRhythms Facilitation

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Samantha Foote, MM, MT-BC

Boise Music Therapy Company

Boise, ID

Telehealth available www.boisemusictherapycompany.com

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Central

Cathleen Gempeler MT-BC

Apple Valley MN


Kirsten Sorensen MT-BC

St Paul, MN

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Cameron Coffey MT-BC

Ann Arbor, MI

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Lindsey Landeck MT-BC

Kalamazoo, Michigan

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Meaghan Hartley, MT-BC

Kansas City, Missouri (Downtown)

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Chelsea Steen MT-BC

LaCrosse, WI

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Sheila Wall MT-BC

Altoona, WI

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Kim Weiss MT-BC

Madison, WI

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Rachel Williams MT-BC

Greenfield, IN

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Christine Pappalardo MT-BC

Tinley Park, IL

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Samantha Foote, MM, MT-BC

Boise Music Therapy Company

Boise, ID

Telehealth available

www.boisemusictherapycompany.com

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Melissa Gabel, MT-BC

Lawrence, KS & Virtually

Owner/Practitioner of Solace & Sound, LLC

Individual & Group services

Music & DBT Mindfulness

workshops

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Jodi B Dobos MT-BC

Cleveland Ohio 44119

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South Central

Crystal Malinski, MM, MT-BC

Fort Collins, [email protected]


Brittany Trinite MT-BC

Round Rock, TXwww.composeyou.com

East


Suzanne Makary MT-BC

Northampton

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Cait Carter, MT-BC

Greenville, SC

DBT-Informed Music Therapy groups in an inpatient state hospital.

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Music Therapy Private Practice:

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Matt Page MT-BC

Philedelphia, PA


Jared Davis MT-BC

Pittsburgh, PA

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Peggy Tileston MA, MT-BC

Philadelphia, PA

consultation, education, music therapy sessions

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Johanna Dwinells MT-BC

Philadelphia, PA


Rachel Twigg MT-BC

Suffolk VA

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Victoria Mierlak MT-BC

New York, NY


Sarah Shulbank-Smith MT-BC

NYC/Jersey City

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Kaitlyn Wainscott MT-BC

Burlington VT


South East

Kelly Abrams MT-BC

Peachtree City, GA