Training Faculty
Alison Bort holds a joint-J.D.-Ph.D. with a certification in forensic clinical psychology and public interest law. She has spent the past fifteen years serving justice-involved individuals and their families in clinical and legal positions in a variety of settings including specialized problem-solving courts, juvenile courts, dependency courts, and community and residential mental health programs. She previously served 4 years at Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare, as the Program Manager for Oregon’s largest community treatment program for individuals under the PSRB’s jurisdiction, and spent a year and a half supervising the clinical services for Clackamas County’s Mental Health and Adult Drug Courts. Dr. Bort has also presented an array of trainings and engaged in several research projects on law and mental health-related topics. In keeping with the PSRB's mission, Dr. Bort values the principles of therapeutic jurisprudence, which promote using the legal system to ensure public safety while also supporting opportunities for long-lasting recovery.
Tim Catlow lives in Corvallis with his wife Mindy, son Dylan and dog Freddy. He earned his Psy.D. from the Chicago School of Professional Psychology in 1998 and has been a psychologist in Oregon since 2001. He has worked at the Children’s Farm Home in Corvallis for the last twenty-three years. He has been doing juvenile forensic evaluations since 2005 when the Children’s Farm Home’s Secure Adolescent Inpatient Program opened, and he served on the Oregon Forensic Evaluator Certification rule-making committee.
Michelle Guyton co-owns the Northwest Forensic Institute, providing evaluations and education in forensic psychology since 2008. She is a licensed psychologist and certified forensic evaluator in Oregon. She earned her bachelor’s and master’s degree in psychology at Sam Houston State University and her doctorate at the University of Utah. She is one of five board-certified forensic psychologists in the state and the first female to hold this status. In Oregon since 2005, Dr. Guyton worked at the School of Graduate Psychology at Pacific University in Hillsboro, Oregon for ten years. There she functioned as an assistant then tenured associate professor, director of the forensic track, and in other administrative capacities. She and her students presented papers and posters at a variety of regional, national, and international conferences focused on forensic and correctional psychology. She has published in the area of violence risk assessment, inmates’ adjustment to prison, and forensic assessment instruments. Dr. Guyton also worked at the Oregon Department of Corrections where she provided treatment and assessment services to male and female inmates with serious mental illnesses. Dr. Guyton is the director of the Oregon Forensic Evaluator Training Program since its inception in 2012, a state-contracted program that provides initial and recertification trainings for evaluators providing competency and criminal responsibility evaluations. She is the training director for NWFI’s postdoctoral fellowship and practicum student programs. Dr. Guyton also provides trainings to forensic mental health professionals, lawyers, and other criminal justice agencies. She provides consultation to attorneys, government agencies, and other psychologists. In the criminal forensic domain, she conducts evaluations that focus on fitness to proceed, criminal responsibility, sentencing, other competency issues, violence and psychosexual risk assessments. Dr. Guyton also conducts evaluations in the civil domain, including IMEs, personal injury, testamentary capacity, and fitness-for-duty evaluations.
Micky Logan has served as the Legal Affairs Director at the Oregon State Hospital since October, 2011. Before then, she was an Assistant Attorney General at the Oregon Department of Justice. During her 20 years at the Oregon Department of Justice, she clerked in the Appellate Division for 2 years, worked as an Honors Attorney for 2 years, served on the DOJ Ethics Committee for 10 years, and represented the Department of Human Services and the Oregon Health Authority as a General Counsel attorney for 18 years. Ms. Logan served on the Executive Committee of the Oregon State Bar Disability Law Section for 9 years and was a member of the Oregon State Bar House of Delegates for 3 years. She was the Chairperson of the Legal Division of the National Association of Mental Health Program Directors for 3 years. In her role as the OSH Legal Affairs Director, Ms. Logan manages various departments of the Oregon State Hospital, such as Forensic Evaluation Service, Informed Consent, Torts and Litigation, and Risk Review. She is OSH’s liaison to the legal community and responds to daily questions from stakeholders and OSH staff. She has given numerous trainings throughout the state about the state hospital and the statutes and laws impacting state hospital patients. Ms. Logan received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Michigan, and her law degree from Lewis & Clark Law School.
Melissa Marrero is a deputy district attorney in the Multnomah County District Attorney’s office and a new member to the Oregon Forensic Evaluator Program team. We invited her to represent the perspectives and experience of district attorneys as frequent consumers of forensic evaluations. Ms. Marrero has worked within her office since 2012 and the following year, was promoted the Mental Health deputy position. Here she worked frequently with mental health professionals as she pursued civil commitment actions and worked with probationers and parolees with mental health concerns. Ms. Marrero has litigated numerous cases where mental health is at issue. She has litigated cases involving the guilty except for insanity plea and mental state/diminished capacity as well as extremely dangerous person commitments. She regularly reviews forensic evaluations and assists attorneys in her office in understanding these. Further, Ms. Marrero has worked on a legislative work group related to fitness to proceed evaluations.
Alexander Millkey co-owns Northwest Forensic Institute, LLC. Dr. Millkey is a licensed psychologist and certified forensic evaluator in Oregon. After graduating from Pacific University’s School of Professional Psychology Dr. Millkey completed his internship at Mendota Mental Health Institute in Madison, Wisconsin before completing his postdoctoral residency at the Oregon Department of Corrections. In the Oregon Department of Corrections he coordinated mental health assessment in the male intake facility at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility. After he left the Oregon Department of Corrections he took a position as a consulting forensic psychologist at the Oregon State Hospital, where he conducted risk assessments and helped develop and implement the institution’s risk management architecture. He consulted with the Oregon State Hospital until January 2023, and currently practices full time at NWFI. He has presented at national and international conferences on a number of topics including assessment of malingering, forensic evaluation, assessment of defendants with intellectual disabilities, and risk assessment. Dr. Millkey is faculty for the Oregon Forensic Evaluation Training Program, where he conducts trainings on report writing, assessment of response style, expert testimony, and evaluation of mental state at the time of the offense. Dr. Millkey served on the Peer Review Panel for the Oregon Forensic Evaluator Certification Program, where he evaluated and provided feedback on the work samples of certified forensic evaluators. Dr. Millkey has conducted trainings for the Psychiatric Security Review Board on the use of short- to mid-term risk assessment instruments. In the criminal forensic domain Dr. Millkey conducts a variety of evaluations including fitness to proceed, criminal responsibility, mental state at the time of the incident, firesetting risk assessment, and violence risk assessment.
Ashley Scott lives in Salem with her husband, wild toddler, and fluffy dog. She graduated with a doctorate from Pacific University in 2013. While a student at Pacific, she was placed at the Children’s Farm Home for a year of practicum. She returned for her residency and has worked there ever since. She began doing forensic evaluations in 2015. Her work primarily involves conducting clinical and forensic psychological evaluations with children and adolescents.
Dr. Lindsay Ingram is board certified in forensic psychology. She received her doctoral degree from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology in Chicago in 2015 and completed her internship at the Federal Bureau of Prisons in Ft. Worth. She completed a formal post-doctoral forensic fellowship at Central State Hospital in Virginia. She has worked at Oregon State Hospital since 2016. Through OSH she is a supervisor for the APA-approved internship program and is the chair of the Psychology Peer Review committee for credentialing. She is on the Board of Trustees for the Society for Personality Assessment. She is a Certified Forensic Evaluator and completes competency, responsibility, and diminished capacity evaluations.
Maya Lopez, MD joined the faculty at OHSU in 2009 where she is now an Associate Professor of psychiatry and the Associate Director of the Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program. Except for a brief hiatus, Dr. Lopez has worked at the Oregon State Hospital for about 10 ½ years where she has been a supervising physician, the Director of the Forensic Evaluation Service, and now she the OHSU Administrative Chief. She is the former Medical Director of Luke-Dorf, a mid-sized community mental health agency in the Portland metropolitan area. She works with the trial competency and GEI populations both as a care provider and a forensic evaluator. She is a Past-President of the Oregon Psychiatric Physicians Association and the Co-Chair of the OPPA Legislative Committee.
James Peykanu, MD is a psychiatrist employed at the Oregon State Hospital. He has presented posters at the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law focused on competency restoration in multiple domains. He has also presented numerous times to multi-disciplinary groups at the Oregon State Hospital on issues such as substance-induced psychosis, settled insanity, competency restoration, and other topics. Dr. Peykanu also presents at OHSU’s psychiatry department grand rounds on psychopathy and risk assessment. Dr. Peykanu is a regular teacher and supervisor of medical and physician assistant students.
Dr. Ericia Leeper (Pronouns: she/her/hers) serves as a Certified Forensic Evaluator in the Forensic Evaluation Services (FES) at the Oregon State Hospital (OSH). She is also the Training Director of the OSH – Psychology Internship Program, and a supervising psychologist for the FES rotation. She has worked at OSH since June 2014. She received her doctoral degree from Forest Institute of Professional Psychology in 2004. She completed her internship at Westborough State Hospital in Massachusetts, and her post-doctoral training through the University of Massachusetts-Boston and Forensic Health Services. She has been completing court ordered evaluations including competency to stand trial, criminal responsibility, diminished capacity and sexually violent predator risk assessments as a licensed psychologist since 2005. Her clinical and research interests include the forensic evaluation of competence, responsibility and diminished capacity, sexual violence risk assessment, deception and malingering in forensic and clinical contexts, assessment of psychopathology and the use of Declarations of Mental Health treatment in Oregon and nationwide.
Channa Newell is a Mental Health Deputy District Attorney for the Multnomah County District Attorney’s office. Her docket includes civil commitments, Aid and Assist, and Mental Health Court. Prior to joining MCDA in July of 2021, she worked as counsel to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees of the Oregon Legislative Assembly. Her role with the legislature included leading work groups and developing policy on civil commitments, advance directives, and other mental health topics.
Cierra Brown currently is a criminal defense attorney with the consortia in Clackamas County. She owns a small, two-person law firm, Metro Law Group, LLC, in Oregon City, OR. Cierra received her JD from Willamette University College of Law. She currently is the defense attorney for Mental Health Court in Clackamas County and Behavioral Health Court in Beaverton Municipal Court. She handles the majority of the aid and assist cases in Clackamas County. Pre law school, Cierra received her Masters and Bachelor of Arts from the University of Nevada, Reno. While in Reno, she worked as a Youth Advisor in a juvenile correctional facility and a psychosocial rehabilitation work and family care coordinator for high risk, high needs kids who were in foster care or residential care facilities. Cierra currently sits on the boards of the Clackamas Indigent Defense Corporation, Basic Rights Oregon, and the Oregon Defense Consortia Association.
Sebastian Rilen, PsyD, is board certified in forensic psychology. After obtaining his doctoral degree from Alliant International University in 2011, he was originally licensed in California. He currently practices in Minnesota where he runs Streamline Forensics, a venture devoted to offering innovative and responsive training to forensic clinicians. Additionally, he is employed by the State of Minnesota conducting Court-Ordered competency, criminal responsibility, sex offense, and civil commitment evaluations.
Eleasa Sokolski is an addiction medicine specialist and psychiatrist at Oregon Health and Science University. She works as part of the inpatient addiction medicine consult service and also sees outpatients for general psychiatry in the OHSU internal medicine clinic. She previously completed a combined internal medicine and psychiatry residency at UC Davis, followed by an addiction medicine fellowship at OHSU. Her professional interests include medical education and treatment of co-occurring disorders.