DBT in Music Therapy Resource Hub
Already Know DBT?
Put the Skills to Work Through Music
A full-access resource library for music therapists who already understand DBT
and want practical, music-based ways to teach and reinforce the skills.
Get immediate access to all 52 DBT skill resources. No waiting for weekly releases.
Go directly to the DBT skill you're working with and find music-based interventions, activities, demonstrations, and session ideas.
With each DBT Skill you can:
- Experience a mindfulness practice
- Review or refresh your understanding of the DBT skill
- Explore a music-based intervention or activity that reinforces the skill
- Discover ways to bring the skill into your music therapy practice
Complete the CMTE requirements and earn 21 CMTE credits.
01 Find Music-Based Resources for the DBT Skills You Already Know
Explore music-based ways to teach and reinforce skills across DBT's four core areas and expand the ways you can bring them into your clinical work.
- Mindfulness to help clients become more aware, present, and less reactive.
- Distress Tolerance to help clients get through difficult moments without making things worse
- Emotion Regulation to help clients better understand and manage emotions
- Interpersonal Effectiveness to strengthen communication, relationships, boundaries, and self-respect
02 Bring the DBT Skills to Life Through Music
You already know the DBT skills. Now explore practical ways to teach and reinforce them through music therapy.
Each skill includes music-based resources to help you move from understanding the skill to using it in your clinical work, including:
- Music therapy interventions and activities designed around specific DBT skills
- Video demonstrations so you can see and hear how the activities work
- Session ideas you can adapt for your own clients and settings
- Additional intervention ideas from the book Creative DBT Activities Using Music
- Opportunities to develop and share your own music-based DBT interventions
So when you're preparing to teach or reinforce a DBT skill, you don't have to start from scratch figuring out how to bring music into the experience.
03 Learn, Share, and Grow Alongside Other Music Therapists
You don't have to figure out how DBT fits into music therapy practice on your own.
- Connect in the forum with other music therapists who are learning and using DBT skills in their clinical work.
- Share what's working as you try music-based DBT interventions with your clients.
- Exchange intervention ideas and discover how other music therapists are adapting DBT skills for different populations and settings.
- Join monthly consultation groups to bring questions, share successes and challenges, and deepen your understanding of the skills with professional peers.
The combination of practical resources, ongoing discussion, and live consultation gives you continued support as you expand the ways you're using DBT in your music therapy practice.
04 Find What You Need, When You Need It
Because you already know DBT, there's no need to wait for resources to be released one skill at a time. You'll have immediate access to the complete library from the day you join.
Choose the DBT skill you're working with and explore:
1. Mindfulness Experiences
Find guided mindfulness experiences you can practice yourself or adapt for your clinical work.
2. DBT Skill Refreshers
Review the skill lesson whenever you want a refresher or another perspective.
3. Music-Based Interventions
Explore songs, music therapy interventions, and activities designed to teach or reinforce the skill.
4. Application & Practice
Use the assignments, readings, and community discussions to deepen your personal and clinical application.
Go directly to what you need, when you need it, while still having the option to explore the complete learning experience.
Take a Look Inside the Resource Hub
Watch these excerpts from the Mindfulness lessons
to get a feel for the learning experience and the music-based resources you'll receive.
05 Immediate access to the complete library of DBT skill resources
Your 12-month membership gives you the resources, community, and support to expand the ways you're using DBT through music therapy.
- Immediate access to the complete library of DBT skill resources
- Mindfulness experiences to help you practice the skills personally
- Video lessons that teach and explain individual DBT skills
- Music-based interventions, songs, and activities designed to teach and reinforce DBT skills
- Video demonstrations showing you how the music-based activities work
- Downloadable instructions and handouts you can use and adapt in your practice
- Guided assignments and readings to deepen your learning and clinical application
- Access to the Resource Hub community and forum to share ideas, questions, and experiences with other music therapists
- Monthly live consultation groups for discussion, brainstorming, and support
- The opportunity to earn 21 CMTE credits if you complete the CMTE requirements
06 Earn CMTE Credits
Your learning in the Resource Hub can also count toward your continuing education.
To earn 21 CMTE credits, you'll complete 18 clock hours of learning activities during your 12-month membership, including:
- Study the DBT skills lessons and complete the assigned readings.
- Apply what you're learning in your music therapy practice and share your experience in the forum.
- Practice applying DBT skills in your own life and reflect on what you're learning.
- Attend at least 6 hours of the monthly consultation groups.
- Create and share music therapy intervention ideas related to the DBT skill modules.
Complete these requirements and earn 21 CMTE credits.
What You'll Need
Required Reading
DBT Skills Training Manual, Second or Third Edition by Marsha M. Linehan.
You'll use the manual throughout the year as you study each DBT skill.
Recommended Resource
Creative DBT Activities Using Music by Deborah Spiegel, Suzanne Makary, and Lauren Bonavitacola.
Use this companion resource to explore additional music-based DBT activities and intervention ideas.
Learning Objectives:
- Study DBT skills and apply one new DBT skill related idea per month to your practice as evidenced by written post describing what you did and how it supported your client(s)
- Apply at least one DBT skill to your personal life monthly as evidenced by posting in the forum or sharing in the monthly consultation group meeting.
- Create at least one new music therapy intervention for each of the DBT skills modules and share it in the forum
CBMT Domain Areas:
IID: Treatment Planning:
IIIA.2 Implementation- Provide individualized music therapy experiences to address client’s…(b,c,e,g,h,i,j,k,l,o,p,q,r,s,u,w,x,y,ztt,ddd,)
IIIA.3 Recognize how DBT theoretical framework inform music therapy practice: (a,c)
IIIA.4. Utilize music therapy approaches to inform clinical practice (a,)
IIIA.5 to achieve therapeutic goals: (a,b,c,d,e,f,g,i,j, k,l,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,u,v,w,x,y,z,aa,dd,ee,ff,gg,hh)
Meet the Facilitators
Learn From Music Therapists Who Know Both DBT and Music Therapy
The Resource Hub was created and facilitated by board-certified music therapists with specialized training and experience integrating DBT skills into music therapy practice.
Our facilitators have completed DBT skills training through Behavioral Tech as well as advanced DBT-informed music therapy training that included clinical supervision with a DBT-Linehan Board of Certification Certified clinician.
They bring real-world experience using DBT-informed music therapy in clinical settings and collaborating with psychologists, social workers, and other DBT professionals.
Deborah Spiegel MT-BC
Bailey Hinz MA, MT-BC
Stehpen King MT-BC
Alice Browne MT-BC
The DBT in Music Therapy Resource Hub, is approved by the Certification Board for Music Therapists (CBMT) for 21 CMTEs- Continuing Music Therapy Education credits. The Spiegel Academy, CBMT Approved Provider #P-106, maintains responsibility for program quality and adherence to CBMT policies and criteria.
What Members are Saying
"I just want to take a minute and give a shout-out to Deborah and the team! Since starting this journey I feel I have found a home and reignited a spark that I didn't know was out!! Everyone involved has put so much time and effort into making this a meaningful experience and it shows! Thank you so much to Deborah, Suzanne, Bailey, Alice, Stephen and Lauren your dedication has made an impact on this Music Therapist and person. I can't wait to see where this takes me!"
- Hillary Cartner- Ambrose MT-BC
“ Since signing up for this membership I've found it beneficial both personally as well as for my professional career. I'm a music therapist working in a VA program, where they have a nationwide push for whole health skills, which includes mindfulness. Heaven knows my year has been crazy, and because the way everything is presented resonates with me it's really helped me. This works and makes so much sense. I can do this. It helps me be a better person which will in turn help my clients. I like that there is no time limit in processing the information and that they give us time to take it in and time to apply it.”
Ruth Hook- , MT-BC
Join the DBT in Music Therapy Resource Hub
12 months of access to music-based resources, community, and live consultation, with the opportunity to earn 21 CMTE credits.
$49/month for 12 months
Or
$490 for the full year
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What happens after your first year?
Your initial membership ends after 12 months. If you'd like to keep using the Resource Hub, you can continue with full access to the intervention library, community forum, monthly consultation groups and invitations to our virtual retreats for $29/month or $290/year.