Better Days,
Better Nights.

Meet Dr. Kaplan

Dr. Kate Kaplan’s passion for psychology and sleep began decades ago as an undergraduate at Stanford University, where she started researching sleep and depression – at the time, in two different departments across campus from each other with very little cross-talk. Wanting to bridge the gap between disciplines, Dr. Kaplan earned a PhD in clinical psychology from the University of California Berkeley, where she focused on the interplay between sleep disorders and mental health difficulties, and then completed two postdoctoral fellowships at Stanford School of Medicine specializing in evidence-based treatments for depression and anxiety as well as for sleep and circadian difficulties.

  • Piloting a sleep study as an undergraduate

  • Teaching the next generation about sleep while in graduate school

  • Training clinicians on sleep treatment across the country

Dr. Kaplan is a nationally recognized expert in the treatment of sleep disorders, including insomnia, hypersomnia, and circadian rhythm disorders. She has published widely on sleep treatment, sleep, and mental health and uses machine learning to understand population-level sleep patterns better. Her work has been supported by the National Institute of Health, the National Science Foundation, and other leading agencies. She is one of a small number of psychologists in the Bay Area who is board-certified in Behavioral Sleep Medicine.

Therapy focuses on improving well-being by working with thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, as well as learning tools and skills that remain even as therapy ends. 

Dr. Kaplan enjoys working with clients in her virtual private practice, where she uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and mindfulness-based techniques. Therapy focuses on improving well-being by working with thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, as well as learning tools and skills that remain even as therapy ends.  Her approach to treatment is warm and collaborative; together, she and her clients set goals and work to achieve them. Dr. Kaplan has two decades of experience providing psychotherapy across various settings, including hospitals, community clinics, university medical centers, and as part of federally-funded research programs.

In addition to working directly with clients in her therapy and concierge practices, Dr. Kaplan trains junior clinicians, consults for companies in the sleep and mental health space, gives workshops and talks to corporations and to the community, and collaborates with research teams around the world.

Dr. Kaplan has enjoyed living in the Bay Area for the last twenty years. Outside of the office, she runs, reads, eats new foods, and tries to keep up with her three boys.