Nina Kaiser, Ph.D.

Founder

Nina (She/her) is a California and New Hampshire licensed psychologist (CA PSY 22555, NH 1589) and founder of PRACTICE San Francisco. Nina has twenty years of experience in mental health across university, medical, and outpatient settings, and has been featured as an expert mental health source in the New York Times, National Geographic, Real Simple, and Parents Magazine, among others. She is a mother to two boys (currently ages nine and six), and developed a particular interest in supporting parents after becoming a parent herself! Nina has years of personal experience juggling motherhood and entrepreneurship, and regularly speaks nationally on mental health for children, parents, women, and entrepreneurs.

Nina specializes in evidence-based behavioral, cognitive-behavioral, and mindfulness-based strategies effective in coping with stress, worry, and big emotions. Nina is particularly passionate about mental health prevention; her goal in founding PRACTICE was to increase availability of traditional mental health intervention services for children, teens, and parents, and also to pair these intervention services with innovative education and prevention programs designed to reach families at earlier points in their mental health journeys.

Nina obtained both her master’s and doctorate in clinical psychology from Purdue University (Indiana) before completing her clinical internship and post-doctoral training from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She remained on at UCSF as a staff psychologist for several years before transitioning to private practice, and continued to hold a volunteer clinical faculty position at UCSF for many years. Nina is a 2026 Inc. Magazine Female Founder 500, a 2023 Tory Burch Foundation fellow, a 2025 Woman to KNOW in America, and a graduate of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses accelerator program.

Nina no longer accepts new clients for individual therapy or parenting coaching, although she supports and consults with other Practice clinicians. She provides consultation and scientific advisory services for behavioral health technology and digital health start-ups as well as consultation for mental health group practice owners, and also is available for speaking engagements.