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JACQUELYN SMALL, LMSW

Eupsychia Institute, Inc.
(Tax ID: 74-2959486)
P.O. Box 151960, Austin, TX 78715-1960
Phone: (512) 327-2795
Fax: (512) 327-6043
eupsychia@austin.rr.com

 

 
Currently: Private Practice, Author, Teacher, Trainer, Consultant, Therapist and Founding Director of Eupsychia Institute, Inc.

Former: Director of Training for the TexasCommission on Alcoholism
and Drug Abuse (1972 - 1979)

 

EDUCATION:
  • Bachelors Degree in Psychology
  • Graduated Magna Cum Laude
  • Phi Beta Kappa (Alpha Chapter)
  • Master's Degree in Clinical Social Work, 1971
  • HEW Fellowship from The University of Texas at Austin
 
Post Graduate:
  • Social Psychotherapist Licensure
  • State of Texas Certified Clinical Social Worker Licensure
  • Basic and Advanced Training in Psychosynthesis at the Psychosynthesis Institute of San Francisco and Pasadena
  • California Certified Holotropic Breathwork Co-Teacher with Stanislav Grof, M.D.

 
SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE:

For over twenty-five years, Jacquelyn has been conducting workshops and giving lectures throughout the United States and Canada in areas such as counselor effectiveness training, self-actualization, family therapy, Psychosynthesis, Transpersonal and Sou-Based Psychology and supervisory skills for business and industry. Jacquelyn's work is especially known in the field of alcoholism and drug abuse and she is considered a pioneer and seminal thinker in the Human Consciousness movement. In 1991, Jacquelyn founded the Psychospiritual Integration and Integrative Breathwork, now more appropriatelu named Soul-Based Psychology.

Most major alcoholism and addiction schools in the United States have used Jacquelyn as a consultant and trainer, either as a keynote speaker or workshop Leader. Among other university work, she serves on the faculties of many major universities in their continuing education and adult education programs. In 2002, Jacquelyn has designed and is implementing a year-long intensive training of select staff at Austin Recovery, one of central Texas' largest 28-day residential treatment facilities. Jacquelyn has presented training workshops, consulting, or keynote speeches for the following universities, institutes and organizations:

 
U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
NADPA (North American Drug Problems of America)
International Conference on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, Piedras Negras, Mexico
The International Congress on Drugs and Alcohol U.S. Journal, FL
Texas Department of Mental Health-Mental Retardation
Texas Rehabilitation Commission
Texas Commission for the Blind
Texas Department of Human Resources, Child Welfare Division
Texas Department of Health
Texas Adult Probation Commission
University of Texas at Austin, Arlington and El Paso
Association for Humanistic Psychology
University of Alaska, Anchorage
National Drug Abuse Conference, Seattle, Washington
State of Illinois, Annual Alcoholism Institute
State of New Mexico, Annual Alcoholism Institute
State of Arizona, Annual Alcohol and Drug Institute
State of Ohio, Annual Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Institute
State of Oklahoma, Annual Alcoholism Institute
State of New Jersey, Annual Alcoholism Conference
Commonwealth of Kentucky, Annual Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Institutes
Commonwealth of Virginia, University of Virginia Certified Alcoholism Counselors Program
National Council on Alcoholism
University of Arizona
University of California at San Diego and Santa Cruz
Rutgers University, Summer School of Alcohol Studies
Georgia Southern University
University of Georgia
United States Navy at San Diego and Alameda, California
Texas Instruments
Phillips Petroleum Company
Johnson and Johnson
Methodist College of Nursing and Allied Health
Charter Lake Medical Hospital
Institute of Transpersonal Psychology
Association of Transpersonal Psychology Annual Conference
International Transpersonal Association
Esalen Institute
Omega Institute
Common Boundary Annual Conference, Washington, D.C. area
Sierra Tucson
University of Toronto, Canada
St. Anthony's Hospital, St Louis
Wisconsin Association for Adult Children of Alcoholics
Indiana University at South Bend
Southwestern College of Life Sciences
Unity Church of St. Petersburg
Unity Church of West Palm Beach
Unity Church of Naples
Unity Church of Sarasota
New York Open Center
Inter
Spiritual Emergency Network
Ecumenical Center for Religion and Health
Unity Village (Theological Seminary)
Residence XII, Seattle, WA
Association of Halfway House Programs of North America Conference
Pinellas Comprehensive Alcohol Services
Daytona Beach Community College
Antioch University
The Betty Ford Center
Certified Alcoholism Counselors of Maryland
Southern Illinois University
Midsouth Summer School on Alcohol & Drug Abuse, Arkansas
The Charlotte Treatment Center
Palmer Drug Abuse Program, TX
La Hacienda Treatment Center, TX
Charter Medical Corp., GA
Springs State Hospital, TX
John's Hospital, KS
Health and Educational Council, MD
The Memorial Hospital Alcoholism Treatment Program, VA
Chit Chat Farms, PA
Veteran's Administration Medical Center, MD
Mark Twain Mental Health Center, MO
Ursuline College, OH
Santa Barbara City College, Continuing Education
University of Utah Graduate School of Social Work
The Church of Today, MI
United Church of Religious Science Annual Conference
Kansas Wesleyan University, KS
Omega Institute and New Age Publishing's Body and Soul Conference, TX, FL
Kentucky School of Alcohol and Other Drug Studies, KY
  Southwestern College, NM
TheConferenceWorks!, Indianapolis, IN
  The Summit School of Alcohol and Other Drug Studies, Nashville, TN
  Austin Recovery, Residential Program, Austin, TX
  TX Commission on Alchohol and Drug Abuse, Austin, TX
 
   
Before entering the field of alcoholism training, Jacquelyn worked as a social work caseworker, field supervisor, and psychotherapist in various mental health and Child Welfare protective service settings. She was a therapist for the University of Texas Counseling Center at Austin and taught courses at the University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work. She was active in the Austin area as a community leader for civic and political groups.
In Texas, Jacquelyn was instrumental in implementing the Texas Association of Certified Alcoholism Counselors, and is a past member of its certification board. She also served on the adjunct faculty of the California Institute of Transpersonal Psychology from 1985-1988 for their external program and was instrumental in developing the Master's Program in Addiction Counseling for the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. Jacquelyn is conducting a year-long training in 2002 for 16 selected staff members at Austin Recovery to train them in her Integrative Breathwork and Psychospiritual Integration process.
Currently, she directs her own not-for-profit training institute, Eupsychia, in Austin, Texas. Eupsychia conducts workshops throughout the United States and specializes in certifying people in Soul-Based Psychology and Integrative Breathwork.

PUBLISHED BOOKS AND ARTICLES:

Jacquelyn is the author of the best-selling handbook for counselors and those in positions of personnel oversight, Becoming Naturally Therapeutic-A Return to the True Essence of Helping (Bantam Books). Her second book, Transformers-The Artists of Self-Creation (DeVorss), summarizes her workshop material on this subject. With her third book, Awakening In Time-The Journey from Codependence to Co-Creation (formerly Bantam, now Eupsychian Press), Jacquelyn gained recognition as a pioneer in the addiction's field and was invited to be on the Board of the National Association for Co-Dependency.

Harper/SanFrancisco, in conjunction with Hazelden Foundation, published Embodying Spirit-Coming Alive with Meaning and Purpose. It is a comprehensive look at the history and evolution of Transpersonal Psychotherapy. Rising to the Call- Healing Ourselves and Helping Others (DeVorss), co-authored with Mary Yovino, is a basic overview of Jacquelyn's work in Psychospiritual Integration, originally intended as a manual for her own students. Becoming a Practical Mystic from Quest Books combines Jacquelyn's smaller books Living Your Bigger Story and Becoming a Practical Mystic with an entirely new third section of synthesis, and became a One Spirit Book Club title. Jacquelyn book from Tarcher/Putnam/Penguin, Psyche's Seeds-The 12 Principles of Soul-Based Psychology is the seminal book on Jacquelyn's new approach to Soul-Based Psychology. The Sacred Purpose of Being Human, was published by HCI, Inc. in Fall 2005. Released in March, 2008, was Improving Your Bedside Manner-A Handbook for Physicians to Develop Therapeutic Conversations with Their Patients.

Jacquelyn has also authored numerous audiocassettes and a videocassette on the subjects of addiction, spiritual psychology and personal growth through Eupsychia Institute.

For over 3 years she was a columnist for Science of Mind magazine and has written for national and local magazines, journals and newspapers throughout her career, especially in fields of substance abuse and human consciousness. Her most recent article published by Counselor Magazine (Spt 2004) is entitled "Third Stage Recovery-A Transformation Model of Treatment and Healing for the 21st Century."

   
AREAS OF SPECIALIZED TRAINING:

Over 2,000 hours supervised training in various kinds of groupwork methodology in Gestalt Therapy, Psychosynthesis, Family Therapy, Reality Therapy, Process Consultation and Management Training, Holistic Health, Transpersonal Psychology and Yoga Psychology. Two years' post-graduate supervision in individual and family therapy as qualification for Social Psychotherapy Licensure in Texas.

 
   
TELEVISION AND RADIO:

Jacquelyn was featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show and has been a guest on many other television and radio shows including The People's Pharmacy, America's Talking, New Dimensions Radio, The Wisdom Channel TV and Radio stations and CNN's Alternative Healing.

Jacquelyn is listed in Who's Who of America.

 
   
BOARD MEMBER OF:
  • Holistic Alliance of Professional Practitioners, Entrepreneurs and Networkers, Inc.
  • International Institute of Psychosynthesis
  • Personal Transformation (Lotus) Magazine
  • National Association for Co-Dependency
  • Eupsychia Institute, Inc.
 
   
A professional vita of a speaker is generally required of organizations offering Continuing Education Credit to participants of the events they are sponsoring. If Jacquelyn is presenting for your organization, feel free to print this vita to keep on record should your CEU licensing board ever audit you. If you are sponsoring Jacquelyn and are not approved to give CEU's to participants, they may be able to receive them under Eupsychia Institute's umbrella. Participants are required to check with their licensing boards in their states to determine whether the program offered qualifies for CEUs.  
   
LINKS AND CONTACT INFORMATION:
  • Topics and Fee Schedule for presentations and training workshops by Jacquelyn Small to agencies, schools, universities, private and public corporations and private foundations
  • Eupsychia Institute (Brenda Shea, Manager. Responsibilities include scheduling of all events)
  • Eupsychia Institute, PO Box 151960, Austin, TX 78715-1960
  • (512) 327-2795, Fax (512) 327-6043
 
   

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