The DBT Informed Music Therapy Program
... is a specialized continuing education training for a small group of Board-Certified music therapists to learn DBT's practical life skills and how to apply them in their music therapy practice.
Dear employer,
One or more of your music therapists has applied to this comprehensive DBT informed Music Therapy Training at the Spiegel Academy in order to take their music therapy practice to the next level and enhance your facility with their new skillsets.
This training will benefit your patients and your workplace in general with practical life skills to help people cope through difficult situations without making things worse, communication skills, emotion regulation skills, and skills for thinking before acting on impulse.
When your music therapists know DBT skills and how to implement them in their music therapy, adding new strategies that they do not yet have in their music therapy toolkit, they will be able to process their music therapy sessions in ways they have not yet learned.
Because it's beneficial to learn from someone who's done this and has proven results, under supervision of a qualified team of DBT experts and DBT informed music therapists, they will learn what is working now, stay in the know, and use cutting-edge strategies rather than guessing what they should or shouldn't do.
We thank you in advance for having the good of your entire workplace in mind while purchasing this training for your music therapists, as it will impact not just your clients, but the entire treatment team.
This yearlong training starts with self-study foundational pieces in March.
Weekly in-depth skills study with music therapy applications and supervision begin April 15th.
Seats are limited to 10 per cohort.
Enrollment is filled on a first come basis.
Your music therapists can help your clients gain skills to:
- Get through Difficult Times
- Regulate Emotions
- Control Impulsive Behaviors
- Communicate Effectively
What is DBT?
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a popular and effective evidence based therapy model and set of personal growth tools created by Dr. Marsha Linehan. DBT uses skills training to support people in replacing maladaptive behaviors with skillful behaviors, in responding to life rather than reacting, and can enhance the lives of all.
The Power of Integrating DBT in your Music Therapy Services
- Integrating this entire toolbox of skills into your music therapy services gives your music therapists the ability to help your patients/clients through any difficult situation in their life, supporting them to make lasting changes they can bring into the rest of their world.
- Your music therapists can add a dimension to the way the clients learn, practice, and remember DBT's practical life skills so patients actually use the skills in their lives when they need them.
- DBT skills are useful in our own lives as well! Your music therapists will become great role models for your facility as a result of completing this training!
Imagine your music therapists having the secret to
...being able to articulate to your treatment team using common (DBT) terminology and language 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 they're providing an evidence based tried and true system they can adapt to your clientele... having an effective toolkit that works with clients with impulsive behaviors, diysregulated emotions, lack of coping skills, and/or poor interpersonal skills!
In the DBT Informed Music Therapy Training Program You Can Expect Your Music Therapists to:
- Gain a complete and thorough study of DBT skills with music therapy applications giving them a repertoire of coping skills to support your clients and themselves.
- Learn an evidence based tried and true system that can be adapted to your clientele and make a greater impact.
- Be able to teach DBT skills, in the context of music therapy sessions or even as coleader in DBT skills training groups.
- Have a year of professional supervision as they implement all they are learning with your clients, so they gain confidence in applying it through music therapy.
- Become comfortable using the DBT terminology and collaborating with other clinicians so that your team can share ideas and strategies to improve client outcomes.
- 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 their professional music therapy practice
- Feel confident in their role as a DBT informed Music Therapist
- Know what the skills are and what steps to take when your clients present with a variety of issues and behaviors.
- Know how to create effective music therapy interventions within the DBT framework and watch your clients learn and remember skills to help them in their lives.
- 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
- Earn 100 CMTE credits
Peggy Tileston, Clinical Training Coordinator at Temple University in Philadelphia, has this to say about the training:
Working in a psych hospital I was interested in learning more about DBT. I read Deborah's book, and even brought her out to the East Coast for a 3 day workshop, and I realized that I needed more in-depth training.
So when the DBT informed Music Therapy Program opened up, I took the training.
Here are 4 reasons I'd like to encourage you to also take the training:
- 1. Personal Integrity from going through the processes yourself
- 2. Impressive level of clinical supervision as you work DBT into your practice
- 3. Going through program with a cohort of peers, resourcing one another in a like- minded community
- 4. CMTEs
"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
This DBT Informed Music Therapy Program Worked for These People, and It Will Work for You Too
"The DBT Informed Music Therapy Program I completed at the Spiegel Academy is the best music therapy training I have ever taken..."
Stephen King MT-BC
"I indeed learned common language to use so that I am better able to communicate with other therapists ."
Diana Gross MT-BC
"Since taking the training from The Spiegel Academy, I developed a DBT skills group with the psychologist. We did research to show the effectiveness of combining music therapy with traditional skills training. "
Lindsey Landeck MT-BC
"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."
Kirsten Sorensen, MT-BC
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
We've got A's for your Q's
Q-Are any of you certified by DBT-LBC?
Yes, Lauren Bonavitacola, PsyD, MT-BC, is a psychologist, DBT-Linehan Board of Certification Certified Clinician™, and board-certified music therapist. Ethan Lechner LCSWA, PhD and Kim Johnson LMHC, MT-BC are also intensively trained DBT clinicians.
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.
Q-How much time will it take?
About 6-8 hours a month.
The first month is for completing the self-study classes. Month 2-12 you'll attend weekly meetings (Monday nights) and complete monthly assignments for learning the skills and how to implement them through music therapy.
Q-Is there any research on DBT and music therapy?
In a recent study completed at Kalamazoo Psychiatric Hospital, a music therapist and a psychologist compared traditional DBT skills groups with skills training that included music therapy. The results on client outcomes were favorable for music. The results were published in the Journal of Music Therapy and can be viewed here.
Lauren Bonavitacola wrote about research in the introduction to the book Creative DBT Activities Using Music: Interventions for Enhancing Engagement and Effectiveness in Therapy. You can read what she wrote here.
Q-Does DBT only apply to borderline personality disorder?
No. DBT has been shown to be effective with a wide range of diagnosis and settings including but not limited to schools, prisons, addiction recovery, and mental health. PLUS people use DBT skills with children, adults, adolescents, seniors, in hospice, with hospital staff, for wellness, for self development, and with a variety of abilities.
DBT works for many different populations. See what these music therapists say about their experiences.
"I was burnt out, not really knowing what direction to go with the kids.
Not having any contact with other music therapists at all I was at a loss so I really appreciated talking to people in person, asking questions, bringing situations to the group for input, and hearing everyone's advice helped me a lot.
Bringing it back to the kids, and using it on myself has helped a lot with difficulties in sessions. This is definitely something they need and I was able to adapt it like I adapt anything I do with them."
Chelsea Josephson MT-BC
MT in Residential Treatment for Children with Cognitive Delays & Challenging Behaviors
" I'm grateful for having to be accountable... on a personal level, to do work I needed to do helped me feel in integrity.
And on a professional level, I loved the opportunity to work with and collaborate with DBT skills trainers and try out different ways to be using music with the skills."
Peggy Tileston MT-BC
MT Clinical Training Coordinator, Temple University
"This training refreshed me with a lot of new ideas, a new direction, and a good understanding.
I really appreciated not just reading about it, but the videos and the live feedback."
It was very validating because sometimes being the only music therapist you feel on an island by yourself."
Suzanne Makary MT-BC
Adult Acute Mental Health Partial Hospitalization Program
"I LOVE DBT skills. They are helpful for anybody on so many levels.
This program really helped me be reminded what the skills are and what they mean and many ways to use them with music.
It helped me expand my thinking and my creativity."
Victoria Mierlak MT-BC
Adolescent Residential Care: Mental Health w/ Criminal Charges
What Your Music Therapists will Get when you enroll them in the DBT Informed Music Therapy Program
They get ALL of the following:
over $12,000 of value
for only a fraction of that amount!
This is a comprehensive year long training that will transform lives and gives participants unique professional qualifications. We've divided it into 3 parts, designed to take participants step by step so they get the best experience to help them learn the skills and confidently apply them with music therapy.
Part 1:
Foundations
Explore the basics for a confident start
with the following self-study courses.
DBT: Practical Life Skills Reinforced through Music Therapy with Deborah Spiegel MT-BC and Lindsey Landeck MT-BC
Value $250 (Included )
- A music therapist's view of the skills studied in the first edition of Marsha Linehan's DBT Skills training manual.
- Get many MT interventions from the self-study webinar to teach and reinforce DBT skills that you can use with your clients right away.
- Begin to learn the language of DBT so you can communicate better with a DBT team
- 10 credits
Music and Mindfulness in Clinical Applications with Katie Down MT-BC
Value $200 (Included)
- Create self awareness and manage symptoms with techniques you'll learn in this self-study webinar.
- 8 credits
*Early bird bonus-
When you join before February 29th, 2024 the following class will be included as an extra foundational level class bonus:
Merging DBT Mindfulness and Music: A Template for a Transformative Six-Week Program
with Melissa Gabel, MT-BC
Value $125
- A full six-week program template to implement with clients who may benefit from mindfulness-based music interventions informed by Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT).
- Music therapists will be educated on the seven main DBT mindfulness skills (Wise Mind, WHAT skills, and HOW skills),
- Examples of a treatment plan and about 25 music interventions for each skill with potential adaptations is provided.
- A non-musical assessment and evaluation tool will be provided with the program for the music therapist to implement at their own discretion.
- Finally, music therapists be provided with the opportunity to adapt a mindfulness music intervention presented or create a completely new mindfulness music intervention that fits the needs of their specialized population and setting to submit as a homework assignment.
- 6 credits
Part 2:
In-Depth DBT Skills Study with Music Therapy Applications and Supervision
Deep Dive so DBT Skills Become a Foundation of Treatment.
Value $3499 (Included )
April 15th 2024- Sept 30th 2024
The first 2 Monday nights of each month participants meet with Suzanne Makary MT-BC for skills training (for 90 minutes at 5pm Pacific, 6 Mountain, 7 Central, 8 Eastern)
- Explore deeply all the DBT material, starting with the 2nd edition DBT Skills Training Manual so you really understand each skill.
- 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.
The 3rd week participants meet with Ethan Lechner LCSWA, PhD and Kim Johnson LMHC, MT-BC for supervision (for 60 minutes at 6pm Pacific, 7 Mountain, 8 Central, 9 Eastern)
- Participants receive supervision as they apply the DBT material into music therapy with your clients so they can get questions answered and learn how to apply the skills in your particular setting.
The last Monday of each month you'll meet with Bailey Hinz MA, MT-BC, for DBT music therapy consultation group. (for 60 minutes at 5pm Pacific, 6 Mountain, 7 Central, 8 Eastern)
- Brainstorm with other DBT music therapists to solve issues and answer questions
- Personal and professional growth
Part 3:
Implementation & Support
Now that participants fully know the skills, it's time to
Plan, Create, & Execute
to Take Their Skills to the Next Level
Value $3499 (Included)
October 21st 2024-March 31st 2024
The first 2 Monday nights of each month participants meet with Stephen King MT-BC and Kim Johnson LMHC,MT-BC for scenarios to solve with DBT skills and MT on the spot to facilitate utilizing what they have learned and putting it into practice. (for 60 minutes at 6pm Pacific, 7 Mountain, 8 Central, 9 Eastern)
- Learn new ideas and strategies as participants brainstorm with their cohort
- 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 to enhance your team's professional skills.
The 3rd week of each month participants meet with Lauren Bonavitacola Psy.D. for supervision (for 60 minutes at 5pm Pacific, 6 Mountain, 7 Central, 8 Eastern)
- Get supervision while completing a case study assignment using DBT informed music therapy practices with a client of choice.
- Get support in learning to use DBT informed MT to solve specific issues with your particular clients.
- Receive supervision while applying the DBT material into music therapy with your clients
- Get questions answered and learn how to apply the skills in your particular setting.
- Learn other aspects of DBT beyond skills training.
- 100 CMTE credits
The last Monday of each month participants meet with Bailey Hinz MA, MT-BC, for DBT music therapy consultation group. (for 60 minutes at 5pm Pacific, 6 Mountain, 7 Central, 8 Eastern)
- Brainstorm with other DBT music therapists to solve issues and answer questions, further applying skills to your setting.
- Personal and professional growth
Finale:
DBT Credential
Credential Endorsing your music therapist as a DBT Informed Music Therapist
Recognizing their Skills
(Value Priceless)
- Professional development and uplevel to your music therapists career
- Affirms completion of all requirements
- Endorses your participating therapists as qualified DBT Informed Music Therapist
Bonus #1
One FREE year of Membership
in the DBT Music Therapy Resource Hub - Value over $1000
Participants get full access to this members only resource library full of ready-made music therapy session materials for each skill to help you SAVE TIME with session planning.
Bonus #2-
Supervised Group Practice - Value $1800- YOURS FREE
After participants have done the deep dive and have studied and learned all of the DBT skills, now it will be time for supervised practice in deciding what skills to use in a given situation. Master the skills and build confidence in creating on the spot music therapy applications for those skills.
Bonus #3-
Modified DBT Class - Value $ 700-YOURS FREE
The third bonus will help you meet the specific needs and abilities of clients with intellectual disabilities. This bonus is an additional 28 CMTE credit class which adapts DBT for Clients With Intellectual Disabilities and Challenging Behaviors
Bonus #4-
2 FREE tickets to virtual retreat- Value $197-YOURS FREE
In this online retreat, participants will hear presentations from other DBT informed music therapists, that are full of new ideas and strategies for implementing DBT with music therapy for a variety of populations. Their chance to hear from experts and to meet each other in a live community event.
Bonus #5-
Online Community Feedback - Value over $1200
After implementing their interventions, participants get to debrief them with our team, so they are continuously leveling up with each time they implement. They'll have access to community conversations and announcements- a place to interact with others in the program, get resources, and ask questions in our PRIVATE forum (which is only accessible to other group members.)
Value of All You Get in the DBT Program
1 year Training Program - 100 CMTEs
- Part 1: Self study classes for basics for a confident start
- Part 2: Deep dive into all things DBT. In-Depth DBT Skills Study with Music Therapy Applications and Supervision with a team of DBT experts so DBT skills become a foundation of your music therapy treatment
- Part 3: Implementation and supervision with Linehan certified clinician Dr. Lauren Bonavitacola while completing a case study assignment, and get personalized practice implementing what's been learned.
- Finale: Earn an endorsement as a DBT Informed Music Therapist showing your participating music therapists have demonstrated competence
Bonuses
- DBT Music Therapy Resource Hub- for session planning
- Supervised Group Practice for being able to utilize skills from your newly grown toolkit with music therapy on demand
- Modified DBT Class for your intellectually challenged clients
- Free tickets to virtual retreat for new ideas and strategies on using DBT with various populations
- Online community where you feel you belong
- Intervention debriefs so you're always improving
Value of the training =
$7,448
+
Value of the bonuses =
$4,897
=$12,345
Enroll your music therapists.
Enroll your music therapist(s) in this entire program NOW
for only
$5,000
** Our commitment is to support music therapists in making a greater impact.
We are eager to collaborate with you to make participation a reality.
Note: There is an additional investment for the following Course Materials (books)
which are not included in registration fees:
*Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder
*DBT® Skills Training Manual, Second Edition
*DBT Worksheets and Handouts
Creative DBT Activities Using Music: Interventions for Enhancing Engagement and Effectiveness in Therapy
* = Required
*** This program is for clinicians who already hold a credential
as a Board Certified Music Therapist and is limited to 10 participants per cohort ***
Q- Is there a guarantee?
Hundreds of people like you have invested in our DBT Informed MT classes since 2011. We know that if you enroll your therapists and they participate in this entire program, and apply themselves, you will be thrilled with the results. If you/they find that this program doesn’t feel like a good fit, you/they have 14 days after the first day of starting the first class to get 100% of your money back. After that time, you/they will be able to transfer to any other classes of choice of the same credit value from our catalog. No hassle.
You have nothing to lose, and so much to gain!
Take a new action, and get a new result.
Take the leap...
... jump in...
... and join the movement as we combine DBT Skills with music therapy to support those we serve to build a life worth living!
Here's what to do now...
- We only take 10 participants per cohort, so complete your enrollment now
- If you claim one or more of the 10 spots your participant(s) can get started right away with the self-study classes- part 1 DBT: Practical Life Skills Reinforced through Music Therapy, and part 2 Mindfulness and Music in Clinical Practice so they can be completed before our orientation meeting on April 15th.
- *Early bird bonus- When you join before February 29th, 2024 we will also throw in an extra bonus: a template for an entire 6 week mindfulness program using DBT mindfulness skills, complete with many interventions, to give you a strong DBT foundation and support your clients.
- Participants can start attending the consultation group zoom meetings on the last Monday of each month right away, can consume and utilize the vast amount of content and interventions in the DBT Music Therapy Resource Hub, and will be invited to the next virtual retreat as well.
Orientation for part 3- In-depth Skills Study with Music Therapy Applications, is on zoom April 15th. This is where participants meet the team and dive into the weekly zoom classes. They will want to have the self- study work completed prior to that.
Want to learn more ...
Schedule a time on my calendar and we can have a conversation to answer your questions.
I look forward to meeting you!
Deborah Spiegel
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