Jessica Bloom earned her BA in Education at the University of Michigan in 2004, and her M.S. in 2011 from California State University, Fresno in Marriage and Family Therapy. She also holds a Pupil Personnel Service Credential, which allows her to work as a counselor in the K-12 setting. Over the last 15 years, Jessica has worked in a variety of educational, social services, and mental health settings.

Jessica has worked as an instructor in the Master of Science Counseling program at Fresno State since 2012 teaching courses including Counseling Theories, Practicum, Life Span Development, Therapeutic Methods of Children and Adolescents, etc. In addition, she currently practices as a therapist, in which her specialized training and focus centers around families experiencing domestic violence and traumatic stress. In her clinical practice, Jessica has also worked in areas such as sexual assault, crisis counseling, child welfare, family and couple life transitions, children and adolescents counseling, infant mental health, and multicultural and social justice counseling, particularity for LGBTQ+ persons. Thus, with this background in mental health community counseling and teaching at the secondary and graduate level, she believes she can offer her students the knowledge and encouragement needed to best prepare students for their licensure exams, while attending to their different learning styles.