Training

Scott A. Martin, M.A., LMT, NMT

Mindfulness Instructor

LPC-Intern w/The Life Center under the Supervision of Travis White, LPC-S

 

Scott Martin is the Founder and current Director of the East Texas Stress Reduction Clinic. As a long time meditator, Scott left the sales and banking industries and became a Licensed Massage Therapist and Massage Instructor in 2002. Through guided meditations he was able to assist many clients to get out of their heads and into their bodies. Scott was trained in multiple advanced therapies including a certification in Neuromuscular Therapy and exploration into multiple froms of energy work including obtaining the Level of Reiki Master/Teacher. These alternative yet positive experiences led Scott to a curiosity about the scientific relationship between meditation, psychology, and mental health. In 2008 he returned to school and obtained a BA in Psychology, Summa Cum Laude. Scott continued on into graduate school and obtained a Masters in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from the University of Texas at Tyler. Collegiate studies led him to delve deep into the established clinical literature on meditation and mindfulness. That search for empiracally based mindfulness treatments led to Jon Kabat-Zinn's Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction. Scott has since persued a rigorous certification track through the Center for Mindfulness as an MBSR teacher and is now one of what he hopes to be many allowed to teach the clinically significant and transformative MBSR program here in East Texas. Scott is a certified DRUMBEAT Facilitator, an empiracally based cognitive therapy utilizing DRUMS designed for populations with an aversion to Talk therapy.

 

Trainings:

-(MBSR) Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction training with Steve Flowers MS, MFT in November of 2012

-Practicum in (MBSR) Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Living Inside Participant-Practitioner Perspectives, taught/directed by Bob Stahl, PhD. and Lynn Koerbel, MA, through the Center for Mindfulness in Boston, MA in Feb. 2013.

-(EFT) Emotional Freedom Technique 1 & 2 with Steven Kessler

-(EFT) Emotional Freedom Technique Level 1 with Dawson Church

-(MBSR) Teacher Developmental Intensive led by Bob Stahl, PhD, Caroline West, PhD, Elana Rosenbaum, LICSW through the Center for Mindfulness in Petaluma, Ca. in June 2014.

-Attended a multitude of 10 day silent retreats from a Vipassana background . 

DRUMBEAT Fcilitator training (taught by Simon Faulkner)

 

Scott was the founder of the East Texas Mindfulness Society, both a school organization at the University of Texas at Tyler and a community resource promoting mindfulness education in the East Texas area. Scott has taught an Introduction to Mindfulness weekly for the past three years as a community offering and is now interested in working with community leaders to co-author mindfulness programs for specific populations. Scott can be contacted through email at:

scott@texasmindful.com