Licensed Educational Psychologist · LEP #4701
Jessica Craig Psych Testing · A Bespoke Concierge Practice in Hermosa Beach
A clinical practice built from two decades of work across schools, community, and private practice.
Jessica Craig is a Licensed Educational Psychologist serving the South Bay from Hermosa Beach. Her practice integrates clinical psychology, school-based clinical work, and the lived experience of parenting neurodivergent children — a combination held with uncommon depth.
A clinician shaped by depth, not by volume.
Jessica completed dual master's degrees: an M.A. in Clinical Psychology and an M.Ed. in Education with a Pupil Personnel Services credential in school psychology. Her early career was grounded in dual-diagnosis residential treatment, where she worked with adolescents and adults navigating complex co-occurring presentations — substance use, severe mental health concerns, family rupture, and the particular intensity that crisis-level work requires.
From there, she moved into community mental health and then into school-based clinical practice across the South Bay, serving Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach, Redondo Beach, and surrounding districts as a school psychologist, ERMHS counselor, and contracted independent evaluator. Her work in schools has provided extensive direct experience with IEPs, 504 plans, special education law, eligibility evaluation, classroom observation, and the systemic realities families navigate in seeking support for their neurodivergent children.
Today, her private practice integrates this full clinical foundation. She has completed more than 500 complex psychological and psychoeducational evaluations and provides depth-oriented psychotherapy, parent consultation, and assessment across the lifespan. Her caseload remains deliberately intimate — clients are seen with the time, attention, and continuity that high-volume practices cannot provide.
Both sides of the IEP table.
A South Bay mother of two teenagers, Jessica has lived the school system from both sides — as the clinician, and as the parent.
This dual perspective informs every aspect of her practice. She understands the worry that arrives long before a diagnosis is on paper. She understands what it means to advocate for a child whose needs are not easily understood. And she understands, from years of school-based clinical work, exactly how systems respond — and where the meaningful leverage points actually are.
Families who work with Jessica often describe a quality of recognition in their first conversation — a sense that they are speaking with someone who has not only studied this terrain but lived it. That recognition is the foundation on which her clinical work is built.
Formal Training
Licensed Educational Psychologist
California LEP #4701 · State of California Board of Behavioral Sciences
M.A. Clinical Psychology
Graduate-level training in psychotherapy, assessment, psychopathology, and clinical practice across the lifespan.
M.Ed., PPS School Psychology
Pupil Personnel Services Credential · School psychology, special education law, IEP development, ERMHS counseling.
15+ Years Clinical Experience
Practice across community mental health, dual-diagnosis residential, school-based clinical work, and private practice.
500+ Complex Evaluations
Comprehensive psychological, psychoeducational, autism spectrum, ADHD, learning differences, 2e, and accommodation evaluations.
Neurodiversity-Affirming
Trauma-informed and neurodiversity-affirming throughout. Specialty focus on high-masking ADHD and autism.
What Guides the Work
Time and attention
Clinical depth requires unhurried time. Sessions are longer, evaluations are more thorough, and feedback is delivered with the care it deserves.
Honesty with kindness
Clients are met with both the warmth they need and the honest clinical perspective they deserve. Real change requires both.
Whole-person view
Diagnosis matters, but it is never the whole story. Every client is understood within the full context of their relationships, history, and life.