Dr. Abilash Gopal M.D. is a board-certified psychiatrist based in San Francisco. He received his BA from Princeton and MD from Tufts. During medical school, he was selected for the Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship at Harvard and spent a year conducting neuroscience and brain-computer interface research. He then completed his residency at UCSF Department of Psychiatry, where he was Chief Resident.

Throughout his training, Dr. Gopal collaborated with the co-director of Harvard’s forensic psychiatry program. He currently serves as a corresponding member of the Program in Psychiatry and the Law at Harvard Medical School. He received further forensics training with a fellowship at the UCSF Program in Psychiatry and the Law and has been recognized for his achievement in the field with both the prestigious Rappeport Fellowship and the Resnick Scholarship. 

Dr. Gopal maintains a concierge private practice with psychotherapy at the core of his work. In 2019, he founded the Marin Family Wellness Center to provide families with a holistic assessment of their adolescent’s mental health along with honest and effective guidance on how to get their child on the right path to success and well-being. He also provides expert psychiatric consultations for patients around the world who may not have access to good providers or are seeking a second opinion.

When he is not treating patients, Dr. Gopal writes. He has published numerous academic articles and books in psychiatry and regularly contributes to the popular press in a variety of formats. He has written short stories on topics as diverse as children with gender dysphoria, boys with emasculated fathers, and violent criminals who get a second chance at life. His opinion pieces on reclaiming masculinity, the perils of helicopter parenting, how a good psychiatrist is hard to find, and reasons to fire your therapist have been widely circulated and cited in both books and online articles.