DBT Skills Mastery Through Music

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, Mid-West, Southwest, Southeast, and Northeast
📍 Note: Many therapists offer telehealth and can work with clients across state lines.

West

Naomi Black MT-BC

Phoenix, AZ

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Betsey Carle MT-BC

Portland, OR (retired)

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Samantha Foote, MM, MT-BC

Boise Music Therapy Company

Boise, ID

Virtual sessions available

www.boisemusictherapycompany.com

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Donnie Lee

Heart Strings Music Therapy PLLC

Henderson, NV

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Crystal Malinski, MM, MT-BC

Fort Collins, CO

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Jessica Shaller-Gerweck MT-BC

Albany, OR

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South West

Kelly J. Howard MT-BC

Pflugerville, TX

Kelly's Melodies Music Therapy

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Stephen King MT-BC

Austin, TX

Virtual available

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Brittany Trinite MT-BC

Round Rock, TX

www.composeyou.com

Mid-West

Alice Browne MT-BC

Minneapolis, MN

Offering individual and group

Virtual sessions available

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Cameron Coffey MT-BC

Ann Arbor, MI

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Jodi B Dobos MT-BC

Cleveland, OH

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Melissa Gabel, MT-BC

Lawrence, KS

Owner/Practitioner of Solace & Sound, LLC

Individual & Group services

Music & DBT Mindfulness

workshops

Virtual sessions available

[email protected]

Cathleen Gempeler MT-BC

Apple Valley MN

Meaghan Hartley, MT-BC

Kansas City, MO (Downtown)

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Lindsey Landeck MT-BC

Kalamazoo, MI

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Abigail Papke, MT-BC

Kalamazoo Psychiatric Hospital

Portage, MI

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Christine Pappalardo MT-BC

Tinley Park, IL

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Kirsten Sorensen MT-BC

St Paul, MN

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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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North East


Jared Davis MT-BC

Pittsburgh, PA

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Johanna Dwinells MT-BC

Philadelphia, PA


Suzanne Makary MT-BC

Northampton, PA

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Cheryl Mozdian MT-BC

Northeast Pennsylvania Music Therapy-individual and groups

Virtual sessions available

Early Childhood Music Classes, Consultation,

Health Rhythms Facilitation

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Victoria Mierlak MT-BC

New York, NY


Matt Page MT-BC

Philedelphia, PA


Sarah Shulbank-Smith MT-BC

NYC/Jersey City

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Peggy Tileston MA, MT-BC

Philadelphia, PA

consultation, education, music therapy sessions

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Kaitlyn Wainscott MT-BC

Burlington, VT


South East

Kelly Abrams MT-BC

Peachtree City, GA


Cait Carter, MT-BC

Greenville, SC

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

[email protected]

Music Therapy Private Practice:

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Katie Cowan, MT-BC, NICU-MT

Norton Children’s Hospital

Louisville, KY


Rachel Twigg MT-BC

Suffolk, VA

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