Martin LumpkinMartin Lumpkin, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist with decades of experience in facilitating growth through psychotherapy and mindfulness training. His insights are described in, Into the Music of the World: Living Life Mindfully. Dr. Lumpkin receivedhis doctorate in Clinical Psychology at Texas Tech University in 1971. Since then, he has held staff and administrative positions at Terrell State Hospital, including founding and overseeing the Substance Abuse Program there. He enjoyed five years in a management consulting firm (Rohrer, Hibler & Replogle), where he developed the executive and team building skills of managers. Since the 1980's Dr. Lumpkin has been active in private practice focused on psychotherapy and mindfulness training. He was devoted teacher at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern)), introducing doctoral students in clinical psychology to psychotherapy and previously coordinated their doctoral internship. Dr. Lumpkin has studied and received extensive training in mindfulness training, as well as in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. See his website, www.martinlumpkin.com, for his training background in mindfulness. As a pioneer in the practice of mindfulness, since the early 1990's, Dr. Lumpkin has been sharing his passion for mindfulness by providing training throughout the Dallas-Ft Worth metroplex. Currently, Dr. Lumpkin provides mindfulness stress reduction courses for medical and graduate students at the University of Texas Southwestern Student Counseling Center and serves on the volunteer faculty in the Department of Psychiatry. Read More Read Less