Continuing & Professional Studies, Palo Alto University

Dr. Rick DeMier has been engaged in independent practice in forensic psychology since January 2017. For over 22 years, he practiced clinical and forensic psychology at the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners, a major medical referral center within the Federal Bureau of Prisons. At that facility, he conducted forensic evaluations for federal courts throughout the country. The most common referral questions included competence to proceed, restoration of competency, mental state at the time of an alleged offense, and risk assessment. He also conducted evaluations of sentenced federal prisoners to determine whether they required inpatient mental health hospitalization, and he was sometimes called to participate in civil commitment proceedings. In addition to his clinical duties, he spent eleven years as Director of Clinical Training for the facility’s APA-accredited predoctoral internship. In 1984, Dr. DeMier received his Bachelor’s degree in psychology at the University of Missouri, and in 1994, he earned his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He completed his internship in clinical psychology at the Florida Mental Health Institute, a component of the University of South Florida in Tampa. Following graduation, he began his career at the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners, where he completed a postdoctoral fellowship in forensic psychology prior to obtaining a staff position. He became board certified in forensic psychology in 2001. Between 2008 and 2015, he served as a member of the Faculty of Examiners for the American Board of Forensic Psychology. In that role, he reviewed practice samples and served as an oral examiner for candidates for board certification. In 2014, he was elected to a six-year term as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Board of Forensic Psychology. He served in the roles of National Chair of Examinations (2017-2019) and President (2020). He contributed a chapter, Forensic Report Writing, to the second edition of the Handbook of Forensic Psychology. He is co-author with Randy Otto, Ph.D., and Marcus Boccaccini, Ph.D., of Forensic Reports and Testimony: A Guide to Effective Communication for Psychologists and Psychiatrists, which was published by Wiley in 2014.

Maureen L. Reardon has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and is board certified in forensic psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP). During her tenure with the Federal Bureau of Prisons, she completed numerous forensic evaluations of competency, sanity, and violence risk and for two years, was responsible for the oversight of the institution’s forensic evaluation program. Currently, Dr. Reardon maintains a forensic practice based in Raleigh, North Carolina. She is Past President (2019) of the American Board of Forensic Psychology (ABFP) and presently serves as examination faculty and co-chair of continuing education for the American Academy of Forensic Psychology (AAFP).

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 conducting 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, judges, and other justice-related 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.