Jay M. Erwin-Grotsky served USM as faculty in the Counseling Psychology Program for CP 540 - Psychopathology to Self-Realization and CP 560 - Values, Ethics, and Law for Professional Counselors.  He has also served as a Faculty Reader Leader for the Year One class and reader for the Master's Comprehensive Examinations.

Jay holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Speech Communication, a Master of Science in Social Work, both from the University of Texas at Austin, a certificate for the Master's in Spiritual Science from Peace Theological Seminary, and a Master of Arts in Spiritual Psychology with a concentration in Consciousness, Health, and Healing from the University of Santa Monica. He is also a graduate of USM's Soul-Centered Leadership Program. He is studying the Modern Analytic approach to group therapy at the Center for Group Studies in New York.

He has been in private practice since 1992 doing psychotherapy and Spiritual counseling with individuals, couples, and groups.  Jay has also served as an adjunct professor at the University of Texas School of Social Work. 

Jay co-founded an organization serving sexual minority youth and helped in the formation of an HIV service organization.  Jay has facilitated numerous groups for HIV positive people, coming out groups, and psychotherapy groups.  In 2007 and 2008 Jay and his group co-leader facilitated a workshop on co-led psychotherapy groups at the Annual Meeting of the American Group Psychotherapy Association, an internationally attended conference. 

A native of California, Jay has lived in Austin, Texas, since 1983.  No one is more surprised about this fact than he.  Jay loves the ocean and being in tall trees and hopes to retire to the Pacific Northwest, preferably near the Oregon coast.  Jay loves to read, cook, and play with his Texas Black Dogs, Bodhi, Quan, and Ava.