About

Dr. Gopal is an award-winning keynote, and international speaker and trainer on foster care and adoption, human trafficking, child sexual abuse, Autism Spectrum and neurodevelopmental disorders, and psychopathology. She received her doctorate in clinical psychology from Alliant University, San Diego and began her doctorate degree in Vanderbilt University, Tennessee. Dr Gopal has trained foster parents, adoptive parents, administrators, judges, Secret Service, FBI, police officers, firefighters, Sheriffs, attorneys, case managers, nonprofits, and governments on issues related to infants, children, adolescents, and adults.  She has coined the term "Displacement Trauma" to describe the complex trauma caused by frequent disruptions of childhood attachment bonds. She is the bestselling author of "The Supportive Foster Parent", "Foster Parenting Step-by-Step", the grief and loss workbook "In My Heart" and workbook on child sexual abuse and co-editor of a Springer publication, “Sex Trafficking: Feminist and Transnational Perspectives.” She is currently contracted to write a book on the “Clinical Psychology of Human Trafficking” by Springer Press. Dr Gopal has developed an internationally accredited human trafficking training curriculum for professionals and advocates, a training manual for clinicians in Mongolia, identification tool for the Ukraine and Myanmar, and worked with rape and war victims. She serves on the boards of the Indiana Lake County Child Protection Team and Indiana Lake County Child Fatality Team, was the Chair for the Illinois Psychological Association’s Working Committee on Hate and Harassment, served as its