Jess Spooner

JD, MSW, LSW

Jess Spooner is the Founder and Managing Partner of Human Fortitude. She is a licensed social worker, a practicing therapist, and an attorney by training, a rare combination that shapes how the firm works with people and organizations under pressure.

Jess holds a Juris Doctor from New York Law School and a Master of Social Work from Rutgers University School of Social Work, where she concentrated in Nonprofit and Public Management, with emphases in International Social Work and Global Development Policy. She earned her BA in Sociology, with a minor in Religion, from The College of New Jersey. She is licensed in both New Jersey and New York and holds a Confidential Sexual Violence Advocate Certification.

Her clinical work is ongoing, not historical: she continues to practice as an outpatient therapist, so the firm’s organizational guidance stays grounded in how people actually respond to stress, trauma, and loss. She previously taught as a Part-Time Lecturer at Rutgers University School of Social Work, preparing the next generation of clinicians, and she has built and taught online courses and workshops on trauma recovery for audiences around the world.

Jess is an early voice on artificial intelligence in therapy. She writes on how large language models are reshaping clinical care and where the ethical lines belong, and she speaks on ethics and innovation in mental health. Her writing on trauma, healing, and spirituality appears on her blog, The Trauma Healer, and she has been featured by Copywriting.org.

Affiliations

National Academy of Social Work Practice
National Association of Social Workers (NASW)
Professional Writers’ Alliance