Jessica Sweetman

Jessica Sweetman is a student at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary (PRTS) in the biblical counseling program and is on track to graduate May 2026 with a Master of Arts in Biblical Counseling (MABC) and a Master of Arts in Religion (MA) from PRTS. In May 2025, Jessica started supervised counseling for her MABC internship and her biblical counseling certification through the Institute for Reformed Biblical Counseling (IRBC), a confessionally Reformed organization dedicated to training biblical counselors. She has been working with an education non-profit since 2015 and is a member of the Free Reformed Church of Grand Rapids, MI.

Jessica previously worked at Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services as a direct care provider for adults with mental illness in both a secure residential unit and a step-down residential unit. She also worked at Bethany Christian Services as case support specialist for refugee children from Central America. Also in Michigan, Jessica has served adults in hospice care as a therapeutic harp practitioner and children in a pediatric hospital setting as a child life specialist volunteer. In New York, she has served refugee children from Burma in an afterschool program as a school counselor/educator, children struggling in the classroom because of problems at home or otherwise in a school-based intervention program as a volunteer. Additionally, she served as an extern with the Forensic Support Team of the Middletown Mental Health Clinic, which offered an intervention program to eligible adult drug offenders as an alternative to jailtime.

Education/Certification

  • IRBC Biblical Counseling Certification (May 2026, expected completion)
  • Master of Arts in Biblical Counseling, Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary (May 2026, expected completion)
  • Master of Arts in Religion, Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary (May 2026, expected completion)
  • Certified Therapeutic Harp Practitioner, International Harp Therapy Program
  • Bachelor of Science (Major: Human Development, Minor: Education), Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
  • Associate of Arts, SUNY Orange, Middletown, NY

Contact Information

NOTE: As Jessica Sweetman has not yet completed her biblical counseling certification or her Master of Arts degree in Biblical Counseling at PRTS, her counselling will be supervised by Dr. Jared Poulton, Director of the IRBC, and overseen by Dr. Mark Kelderman, Director of the Master of Arts in Biblical Counseling program at PRTS.