If you ever:

worry about how to best support clients with impulsive behaviors and dysregulated emotions…
judge yourself or fear you lack knowledge and skill…
find that you are not recognized by your treatment team as the true professional you are (seen as merely fun entertainment)…
need skills to cope through difficult situations in your own life …
work in a DBT program but don’t quite know how to fit in as a music therapist...
are excited about DBT and want to learn more about the DBT skills and how to teach them through music therapy …
don’t work in a DBT program but seek solutions for those difficult clients…

Then this message is just for you.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), is an effective evidence-based treatment model utilizing skills training in the areas of mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness to effect change.

Integrating these skills into your music therapy can support your patients/clients who are involved in a DBT program as well as those who are not.

As a music therapist you can add a dimension to the way the clients learn, practice, and remember the skills.

Originally known for its effectiveness in working with patients with borderline personality disorder, DBT has now been shown to be beneficial for numerous populations and settings.

DBT skills are useful in our own lives as well!

Imagine ...learning the secret to

...being able to articulate to your treatment team using common (DBT) terminology and language, being perceived as a professional peer, and easily collaborating with team members in providing treatment.

...having a repertoire of effective coping skills to pull out of a hat on a moment’s notice...knowing you're providing an evidence based tried and true system you can adapt to your own clientele... having an effective toolkit that works with clients with impulsive behaviors, disregulated emotions, lack of coping skills, and/or poor interpersonal skills!

Here's the mistake most people make:

What most people do when facing a client with impulsive behaviors and disregulated emotions, possibly even working in a DBT program with no specific training, is to get a variety of books, spend hours looking for research and interventions and even more hours in trial and error music therapy sessions. But for most people, that's not efficient or effective.

They don’t have an evidence based tried and true system they can adapt to their own clientele
They don’t have a repertoire of coping skills to pull out of a hat on a moment’s notice
They don’t know how to articulate to their treatment team using DBT terminology and language to be seen as a professional peer and easily collaborating with team members in providing treatment

Learn this system to support your clients in gaining skills to:

Get through Difficult Times
Regulate Emotions
Control Impulsive Behaviors
Communicate Effectively

The Spiegel Academy's DBT Informed Music Therapy Program offers you a toolkit of skills that not only are massively effective for the patient but can lead to a lot more respect and opportunity for the therapist. It's a win/win. Your patients experience a powerful, ground-breaking set of skills to help them cope through difficult times, regulate their emotions, make wiser behavioral choices, and improve their communication skills. PLUS, you get to facilitate the process and receiving the trust and respect you deserve!

Expect these results:

Gain a complete and thorough study of DBT skills with music therapy applications so that you'll have a repertoire of coping skills to pull out of a hat on a moment’s notice to support your clients

Learn an evidence based tried and true system that you can adapt to your own clientele

Be able to teach DBT skills, lead and co-lead DBT skills groups .

Have professional supervision as you implement all you are learning with your clients, able to apply the material and make it functional for music therapy

Become comfortable using the DBT terminology and collaborating with other clinicians

Be able to to communicate with related fields more effectively and plan groups in coordination with them within the structure of DBT

Be able to effectively help patients you serve to manage crises and their own emotions, thoughts, behaviors, and actions to be more stable and avoid having to return to the hospital.

Gain the educational essentials to maintain high standards of excellence in your professional practice

Feel confident in your role as a DBT informed Music Therapist

Know what the skills are

Know how to create effective music therapy interventions within the DBT framework

Effectively create and implement MT interventions to support and reinforce the DBT skills the patients are learning

Be able to present other professionals and those in charge with a credential from the Spiegel Academy with the designation of DBT informed Music Therapist that demonstrates a working knowledge of DBT

"This is a very well put together program and the instructors are impressively knowledgeable- at the top of their game.

I learned a new skill set that I had never learned before in school or anywhere. The DBT skills are very useful and applicable with all populations. Being able to have all the skills for mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness to integrate into my music therapy has helped me address behavior, emotion regulation and communication issues with my clients."

Rachael Williams MT-BC

My name is Deborah Spiegel MT-BC. I was introduced to DBT in 2001 when I worked at the state hospital on a DBT team. I received training from Behavioral Tech and 11 years of experience as a DBT skills group leader in my workplace. Now known as a leading expert in the field of DBT Informed Music Therapy, I've spoken, presented workshops, and delivered trainings on music therapy and DBT skills nationwide since 2009. Director of The Spiegel Academy, author of Creative DBT Activities Using Music: Interventions for Enhancing Engagement and Effectiveness in Therapy, (with Lauren Bonavitacola and Suzanne Makary) I am passionate about supporting music therapists in integrating DBT into their work to expand the reach of our profession into this arena. Since the time that I was first introduced to DBT, the amount of research on DBT and its effectiveness with various populations has exploded as has the popularity of its use. The need for trained music therapists in this field is growing.

Lauren Bonavitacola, PsyD, MT-BC, is a psychologist, DBT-Linehan Board of Certification Certified Clinician™, and board-certified music therapist working for Cognitive & Behavioral Consultants of Westchester and Manhattan (CBC), an outpatient CBT- and DBT-based treatment, training, and consultation center. She is the Director of Trauma-Focused Treatment Programs at CBC and works with adolescents, adults, couples, families, and schools. Dr. Bonavitacola has expertise and specialized training in the delivery of evidence-based treatments for anxiety, mood, substance use, eating, and personality disorders across the lifespan. She specializes in the implementation of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) for Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and associated conditions, as well as CBT for anxiety and mood disorders, particularly Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in adolescents and adults. Dr. Bonavitacola has been providing supervision and training for participants in our DBT Informed Music Therapy Program since 2012.

Suzanne Makary, MT-BC is a Board- Certified Music Therapist who has spent her career serving adults with mental health challenges. She completed her internship in 1997 at Allentown State Hospital. Since that opportunity, Suzanne has worked with an interdisciplinary team in the Partial Hospitalization setting. Throughout her journey as a professional, Suzanne designs and leads daily music therapy groups to assist in learning and reaching wellness goals with her clients. She found Linehan’s work inspiring and used concepts to help frame her work. In 2017, Suzanne completed the yearlong “DBT Informed Music Therapy” Program through The Spiegel Academy. As a DBT-Informed music therapist, Suzanne has created a curriculum for the Innovations Partial Hospital Program at St. Luke’s University Health Network focused on teaching DBT skills daily. Since 2020, Suzanne now also facilitates a DBT skills group for participants of the DBT Informed Music Therapy program.

"I indeed learned common language to use so that I am better able to communicate with other therapists who are working with the same clients, and also so that I can help the clients begin to understand a language they can use to better express their emotions to facilitate improved emotion regulation. I will be able to now directly implement DBT Skills & language into working 1:1 with clients, and also while working with other therapists at my facility who are trained in DBT. "

Diana Gross MT-BC

"Since taking the training from The Spiegel Academy, I developed a DBT skills group with the psychologist on my unit at the state hospital where we work together co-leading skills groups. The psychologist has stated that he notices a difference in the patients who attend the skills groups that are just with him versus the groups that include me, and he is more than convinced that music therapy makes a difference! We are planning our groups together including a research project. I highly recommend this training. I found that this training helped me become confidant in using the language of DBT to enhance my clinical skills, and I would not have ventured into teaching skills groups without it."

Lindsey Landeck MT-BC

Having taken both the The Spiegel Academy's Introductory and Intensive DBT informed MT trainings, I've found them to be exciting and practical. By pairing the skills of the traditional DBT modules with Music Therapy interventions, I have been better able to meet my clients where they are at and provide skills for them to move to a better place. Music Therapy is able to provide a bridge for teaching skills to those hard-to-reach clients in creative ways. After working in health care for over 10 years, I am very excited to see the partnership of DBT skills and MT interventions emerge as what is sure to be a frontrunner in best practices of care. Both DBT and Music Therapy are established practices that complement one another well, moving practice to a new level. Kirsten Sorensen, MT-BC

Deep Dive

In-Depth DBT Skills Study with Music Therapy Applications and Supervision

Explore deeply all the DBT material, starting with the 2nd edition DBT Skills Training Manual
Experience a DBT Skills Study Group yourself as a participant and learn how to lead your own DBT skills groups.
Practice using DBT skills in your own life and become a role model for those around you.
Know how to create effective music therapy interventions within the DBT framework
Receive supervision as you apply the DBT material into your music therapy with your clients.
82 credits ( Value $3499)

Plan, Create, & Execute

After completing all of the above requirements, you will demonstrate a working knowledge of DBT Informed MT by completing a case study assignment write up of DBT informed music therapy practices with a client of your choice.
Get support in learning to use DBT informed MT to solve specific issues with your particular clients.
Have a repertoire of coping skills to pull out of a hat on a moment’s notice to support your clients
Leave with a working knowledge of DBT Informed MT.

Q- Will I be able to run DBT skills groups as a result of this training?

The multiple layers of this program give you the ground work to learn, understand, and apply DBT skills in your practice. The curriculum is designed to delve into DBT skills straight from Linehan’s work through independent reading, working the skills step by step to deepen ways to understand, practice verbiage to teach them, explore personal use in a skills-training group like setting, and practice application as a music therapist. Supervision rounds out the training over several months to solidify and strengthen confidence in teaching DBT skills in your music therapy practice in meaningful application.

Hundreds of people like you have invested in our DBT Informed MT classes since 2011. We know that if you enroll and participate in this entire program, and apply yourself, you will be thrilled with the results. If you find that this program doesn’t feel like a good fit for you, you have 48 hours after the first day of starting the first class to get 100% of your money back. After that time, you will be able to transfer to any other classes of your choice of the same credit value from our catalog. No hassle.

You have nothing to lose, and so much to gain!

DBT Informed Music Therapy Training Program

(Dialectical Behavior Therapy)

Attention music therapist!

Join the movement as we combine DBT skills with music therapy to support those we serve to build a life worth living!

If you haven't watched the FREE introductory workshop yet, click here to learn:

What is DBT and how can knowing how to use it in your music therapy effectively support even your most challenging clients?

Imagine ...learning the secret to

Effective tools to create a brighter future!

Here's the mistake most people make:

Learn this system to support your clients in gaining skills to:

Earn a credential

with an endorsement as a

DBT Informed Music Therapist!

Expect these results:

"This is a very well put together program and the instructors are impressively knowledgeable- at the top of their game.

Who Are the Experts Providing DBT Informed MT Training?

​And what happens if you just keep doing what you’ve been doing?

This DBT Informed Music Therapy Program Worked for These People, and It Will Work for You Too

What You'll Get

01

Explore the basics.

DBT: Practical Life Skills Reinforced through Music Therapy

02

Mindfulness

Music and Mindfulness in Clinical Applications​

03

Deep Dive

In-Depth DBT Skills Study with Music Therapy Applications and Supervision

04

Plan, Create, & Execute

05

Credential

Reserve your spot!

This program is limited to a maximum of

10 people to keep it personal.

Apply to reserve one of the 10 spots now,

and enroll in the program that begins

in September 2021

... and you'll get these BONUSES:

1. DBT in Music Therapy Resource Hub Membership

2. Music Therapy Interventions Teaching Emotion Regulation Skills System (Adapted DBT) for Clients With Intellectual Disabilities and Challenging Behaviors

We've got A's for your Q's

Q-Are any of you certified by DBT-LBC?

Q- Will I be able to run DBT skills groups as a result of this training?

Q-How much time will it take?

Q-Is there any research on DBT and music therapy?

Q-Does DBT only apply to borderline personality disorder?

Q- How much is it?

It's Decision Time

And what happens if you just keep doing what you’ve been doing?

Music and Mindfulness in Clinical Applications