Inc. Names Practice San Francisco Founder & CEO Nina Kaiser to its 2026 Female Founders 500 List
San Francisco, CA, March 10, 2026 - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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Inc. Names Practice San Francisco Founder & CEO Nina Kaiser to its 2026 Female Founders 500 List
Inc.’s annual Female Founders list celebrates the nation’s most innovative women entrepreneurs, who collectively generated approximately $12.3 billion in 2025
Mighty Minds Psychological Services, Inc., DBA Practice San Francisco is proud to announce that Dr. Nina Kaiser has been named to Inc. 's 2026 Female Founders 500, an annual list honoring the most dynamic women business leaders in the United States. The honor recognizes founders whose bold ideas, resilience, and execution are shaping the future of their industries. The 2026 Female Founders honorees collectively generated approximately $12.3
billion in 2025 revenue and $12.2 billion in funding to date, underscoring the economic impact of women-led businesses across sectors. Each year, Inc. editors evaluate applications through a rigorous, multi-round selection process. Founders are assessed on quantitative performance metrics, including revenue growth, funding, sales, and audience size, as well as qualitative factors such as innovation, social impact, and brand momentum. The final list represents entrepreneurs who have demonstrated exceptional leadership and measurable progress over the past year. Previous honorees have included such game-changing leaders as Billie Jean King, Sallie Krawcheck, Serena Williams, and Emma Grede — all of whom have transformed their industries and broken barriers along the way.
“I’m honored to be named as a member of such an incredible cohort of female founders,” said Dr. Kaiser. “This recognition highlights the powerful work that our team at Practice San Francisco is doing to transform the landscape of child and adolescent mental health and to meet families at earliest possible points in their mental health journeys.”
Honoree selection is also honed through the evaluation of the program’s advisory board, which includes Patty Arvielo, co-founder and CEO of New American Funding; Tiffany Dufu, president of the Tory Burch Foundation; Joy Mangano, co-founder and CEO of CleanBoss; Michelle Cordeiro Grant, founder and CEO of GORGIE; Sheila Lirio Marcelo, co-founder and CEO of Ohai.ai and founder of Care.com; and Melissa Mash, co-founder and CEO of Dagne Dover. Dr. Kaiser has twenty years of experience in mental health across university, medical center, and outpatient settings. She is a Tory Burch Foundation fellow and a graduate of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program. She has been featured as an expert mental health source in the New York Times, National Geographic, Real Simple, and Parents Magazine, among others, and regularly speaks both locally and nationally on topics related to mental health for children, parents, and entrepreneurs.
Practice San Francisco, founded in 2017 by Dr. Nina Kaiser, is a leading family-focused mental health and wellness center in the San Francisco Bay Area serving families, schools, and employers. All of Practice’s programs are centered on a "skills-based" philosophy and the belief that mental health is a set of tools that can be learned, practiced, and applied to all stages of life. Practice San Francisco has two thriving locations, one in San Francisco and one in Mill Valley, serving children, teens, young adults and parents.
Practice San Francisco supports children, teens, young adults, and parents through comprehensive psychological assessment, individual and small group therapy, and educational workshops. Practice San Francisco’s licensed psychologists and therapists have deep clinical expertise and specialize in highly effective treatment modalities which help child, teen, and adult clients build new skills that they can rely on even after therapy is complete. In addition, Practice San Francisco’s team partners with local schools and employers to provide research-based support for educators, parents, and caregivers. Practice San Francisco’s flagship Mighty Minds program, a research-based intervention designed for students in grades K–5, helps young kids manage stress, anxiety, and intense emotions utilizing mindfulness and teaching cognitive-behavioral skills. This small-group program, offered year-round onsite at the Practice SF offices, is open both to kids proactively building coping skills and resilience and to those who are already experiencing anxiety, stress, or difficulty with emotion regulation. A key achievement of the program is its bridging component, providing parents with concrete tools to reinforce these skills at home. The success of Mighty Minds led to a school-based rollout for the 2025–2026 academic year, ensuring early intervention is available directly within the educational environment.
Practice San Francisco has also been recognized as one of the nation's Top 100 Small Businesses by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, in the 2025 annual CO—100 list. Practice San Francisco was also honored as an award recipient in the highly celebrated Community Champions category.
"Each year, we are increasingly amazed by the extraordinary leaders on our Inc. FemaleFounders 500 list,” says Bonny Ghosh, editorial director at Inc. “The honorees on this year’s list include innovators in AI, beauty and wellness trendsetters winning devoted fans, and nonprofit leaders making a real impact in their communities. Together, they’re showing all of us what trailblazing female leadership looks like.”
To see the complete list of honorees, please visit: https://www.inc.com/female-founders/2026.
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About Practice San Francisco
Practice San Francisco is a family-focused mental health and wellness practice with locations in San Francisco and Mill Valley, California. We provide evidence-based mental health services and comprehensive psychological evaluations, as well as educational programs, to support the mental health and well-being of children, teens, young adults, and parents in the Bay Area and across California. We also deliver research-informed programs, training and workshops for schools, and educational programs and business-to-business skills groups to forward-thinking employers nationwide, in order to reach and impact children and families at the earliest possible points in their mental health journeys and in the context of their daily lives. Our mission is to help families navigate life’s challenges by fostering resilience through skills, strategies, and community-based support.
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