Nina Kaiser, Ph.D.

Founder

Nina (She/her) is a 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 is an experienced and dynamic speaker on all things related to child and parent mental health, parenthood, motherhood, and entrepreneurship.

Nina specializes in evidence-based behavioral, cognitive-behavioral, and mindfulness-based strategies to help kids, teens, and parents effectively cope 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 sees a very limited number of individual therapy and parenting coaching clients, runs the PRACTICE Mighty Moms support groups, provides support and consultation for other PRACTICE clinicians, manages our corporate partnerships, and does program development. In addition, Nina writes a Substack newsletter titled Other Mothers, with the goal of providing an additional resource and community for mothers juggling parenthood and ambition.

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 has received additional training from the Beck Institute for Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, the Yale University Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions (SPACE) Program, Mindful Schools, the Spirit Rock-affiliated Marin Mindfulness Institute, Little Flower Yoga for Kids, Dr. Amy Saltzman/Still Quiet Place, and Next Generation Yoga. She is 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. After over a decade of living in the city, Nina now lives in Marin with her husband and two sons.

❎ Not accepting new clients

✅ In-person therapy in San Francisco & Mill Valley

✅ Virtual therapy via telehealth