Dr. Ericia Leeper

Co-Program Director, WICHE Consultant, Mentor and Tiered Supervisor

Dr. Ericia Leeper (pronouns: she/her/hers) serves as the Co-Program Director of Guam-PIC. She has been involved with the program’s development and training since October 2021 through the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE). She has previously served as Training Director or Co-Training Director and has been involved with program development at internship sites in the previous almost 20 years (e.g., at Fulton State Hospital and Oregon State Hospital). Additionally, she is also a Certified Forensic Evaluator with the Forensic Evaluation Service (FES) at the Oregon State Hospital. 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, and diminished capacity as a licensed psychologist since 2005. Her passion and clinical and research interests include developing and maintaining intern-centered internship training programs, training psychology interns, and increasing the knowledge and utility of Declarations of Mental Health Treatment (psychiatric advanced directives), including as a long-term solution in addressing the fitness to proceed crisis through diverting and decriminalizing those with lived experiences.