DBT Skills Through Music
Songs, music activities, and practical tools that help clinicians, group leaders, and clients learn, practice, and apply DBT skills in everyday life.
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
Samantha Foote, MM, MT-BC
Boise Music Therapy Company
Boise, ID
Virtual sessions available
www.boisemusictherapycompany.com
[email protected]
South West
Mid-West
Alice Browne, MT-BC
Minneapolis, MN
Offering individual and group
Virtual sessions available
[email protected]
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
North East
Johanna Dwinells, MT-BC
Philadelphia, PA
Cheryl Mozdian, MT-BC
Northeast Pennsylvania Music Therapy-individual and groups
Virtual sessions available
Early Childhood Music Classes, Consultation,
Health Rhythms Facilitation
[email protected]
Victoria Mierlak, MT-BC
New York, NY
Matt Page, MT-BC
Philedelphia, PA
Peggy Tileston, MA, MT-BC
Philadelphia, PA
consultation, education, music therapy sessions
Kaitlyn Wainscott, MT-BC
Burlington, VT
South East
Kelly Abrams, MT-BC
Peachtree City, GA