Dr. Michalopoulos has an extensive background in conducting individual, couples and group therapy with trauma survivors. She specialized in direct clinical practice with women of color who experienced both childhood and adult sexual violence. Dr. Michalopoulos’ current research focuses on how trauma outcomes vary across cultural and contextual contexts, especially among non-Western low and middle income countries. She is currently working with the Victims of Torture Fund through USAID and Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Mental Health Research group on a project developing global and regionally specific trauma scales across cultures and populations.