Jihye Jung, EdS, LEP
Licensed Educational Psychologist | CA LEP #4518
CLIENT FOCUS
School-aged children, adolescents, and transition-age young adults across a wide range of learning and developmental profiles, with a particular focus on high schoolers, young adults, and individuals with more significant support needs.
ASSESSMENT APPROACH
Collaborative
Evidence-based
Strengths-based
Culturally Responsive
Integrative
Family-centered
ISSUES COVERED
Learning Differences
ADHD
Social-Emotional Functioning
Autism
Academic Achievement Testing
Executive Functioning
Adaptive and Daily Living Skills
IQ and Cognitive Testing
Intellectual Disability
Educational Planning (IEP/504)
Jihye brings over a decade of experience as a school psychologist, giving her a real-world understanding of how learning, attention, and emotional needs play out in classrooms and how supports actually work in practice.
She has deep expertise with adolescents and transition-age young adults, especially those navigating the growing academic demands and identity questions of high school and beyond.
Jihye is fluent in Korean and brings a culturally responsive lens to her work, helping families feel understood and supported throughout the assessment process.
“Understanding yourself is one of the most powerful things a person can experience. For many of the clients I see, an evaluation is the first time someone has genuinely slowed down to understand how they think, what lights them up, what gets in their way, and what they’re capable of when the environment actually fits them. So many have already been told what they can’t do. I’m more interested in figuring out why, and what happens when we change the conditions.”
- Jihye Jung
Jihye Jung, Ed.S., is a Licensed Educational Psychologist with over a decade of experience as a school psychologist, bringing deep expertise in psychoeducational and social-emotional assessment across a wide range of school settings.
She earned her Education Specialist degree in School Psychology from the University of Florida and has worked with students of many ages in both the San Francisco Unified School District and the San Mateo Union High School District.
Jihye has conducted comprehensive evaluations for students across the full developmental range, supporting kids navigating learning differences, ADHD, executive functioning, autism, intellectual differences, and complex social-emotional profiles. While she works with clients of all ages, her recent work has focused on high school students and transition-age young adults, including young people with more significant support needs and evaluations that involve nuanced educational and placement considerations. Her approach integrates interviews, behavioral observations, and standardized assessments to build a thoughtful, individualized picture of how each person learns, functions, and experiences the world around them.
Years of work inside school systems have given Jihye a clear-eyed understanding of how accommodations, interventions, and IEP services actually function once they leave the report and meet the classroom. She is skilled at translating findings into clear, practical recommendations that can be implemented at home and at school, and she collaborates closely with families, educators, and multidisciplinary teams to make sure the path forward feels doable.
Jihye is committed to culturally responsive, neurodiversity-affirming care and is particularly thoughtful in her approach to honoring each child’s perspective. She uses interviews and clinical insight to capture experiences that testing alone may not fully reveal, and she communicates results in a way that feels accessible, validating, and grounded in real life. Her hope is that families leave the process with greater clarity, a deeper understanding of their child’s learning profile, and a clearer sense of direction for what comes next, with challenges reframed not as deficits but as a different kind of wiring that comes with real strengths.
Outside of her clinical work, Jihye enjoys exploring new restaurants, traveling, attending live performances and shows, and journaling. She is fluent in spoken and written Korean.