DBT in Music Therapy Resource Hub
Learn DBT Skills Through a Music Therapy Lens
A guided 52-week learning experience
for music therapists who want to understand DBT and begin bringing its practical skills into their clinical work.
Each week, you will:
- experience a mindfulness practice
- learn a DBT skill
- explore a music-based intervention or activity that reinforces the skill
- put what you're learning into practice personally and clinically
Complete the guided learning path and earn 21 CMTE credits.
01 Learn Practical DBT Skills You Can Bring Into Your Work
Build your understanding of DBT's four core skill areas and discover how they can support the work you're already doing with clients.
- 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 won't just learn what the DBT skills are. You'll 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 learn a DBT skill, you're not left wondering, “Now how do I use this in music therapy?"
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 guided learning, ongoing discussion, and live consultation gives you support as you begin bringing DBT skills into your music therapy practice.
04 Here's What a Week Inside the Resource Hub Looks Like
Each week follows a guided learning process designed to help you experience the skill, understand it, connect it with music, and apply it.
1. Start with Mindfulness
Begin with a guided mindfulness experience you can practice yourself and potentially adapt for your clinical work.
2. Learn the DBT Skill
Watch a video lesson that breaks down the week's DBT skill and helps you understand how and why it is used.
3. Explore the Skill Through Music
Experience a song, music therapy intervention, or activity designed to teach or reinforce the skill.
4. Put It Into Practice
Complete an assignment that may include personal practice, clinical application, readings, reflection, and sharing ideas with the community.
Week by week, you'll build your understanding of DBT while developing practical ways to bring the skills into your music therapy work.
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 Everything You Get Inside the Resource Hub
Your 12-month membership gives you the structure, resources, and support to build your understanding of DBT and begin applying the skills through music therapy.
- 52 weeks of guided DBT learning, released one skill at a time
- Weekly 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 as you complete the guided learning 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 as they're released 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 joined this membership to learn the language of DBT. I like the fact that I can learn at my own pace. Some weeks I have more time than others so it’s a good balance. I have become more aware of glitches in my own life by learning many DBT concepts. It allows me to continue to grow and treat each experience as unique and inspiring - I hope to bring this to my clients as well! I feel that I’m getting everything out of the program that I expected- and more. I feel that there are many ways to reach out, ask questions, and utilize the resources provided. "
- Nola Karim, MT-BC
"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 guided DBT learning, music-based resources, community, and live consultation, with the opportunity to earn 21 CMTE credits.
$49/month for 12 months
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$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.