Ward Davis, Psy.D.,
Licensed Clinical Psychologist
Ward joined Alliance in February 2013. He enjoys working with adults, teenagers, and children, and he provides comprehensive psychological/psychoeducational assessment services. Specifically, Ward provides personality, cognitive, and career assessment services. In the context of assessment, he works with people seeking services for a variety of reasons, including emotional, behavioral, relational, or spiritual difficulties.
Ward is passionate about journeying with people toward health and wholeness, and he particularly specializes in promoting emotional awareness and regulation, relationship skills and health, and spiritual health and well-being. Working from a Therapeutic Assessment framework (www.therapeuticassessment.com), he approaches assessment as a collaborative helping relationship, characterized by respect, humility, compassion, openness, and curiosity. From this framework, Ward endeavors to cultivate a safe, warm, and empowering therapeutic-assessment relationship in which people can gain new insights, explore solutions to their recurring life problems, build new skills for navigating life more effectively, and generally make positive changes in their life and in themselves.
In addition to being a psychological assessor, Ward is an Associate Professor in the Psychology Department at Wheaton College. As an educator and researcher, his scholarly interests include psychological assessment, close relationships, and the psychology of religion and spirituality—particularly how people view and relate to God. He has written several scholarly articles and book chapters on these topics.
Ward earned his Doctor of Psychology (PsyD) degree at Regent University (Virginia Beach, VA). He completed his predoctoral psychology internship at the Southern Louisiana Internship Consortium / Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, LA) and his postdoctoral fellowship at the Rosemead School of Psychology at Biola University (La Mirada, CA). He is a member of the American Psychological Association (APA), the APA’s Society for the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality (Division 36), and the Christian Association for Psychological Studies (CAPS).
On a more personal note, Ward enjoys spending time with his wife Meghan and their son, as well as with other family and friends. He also enjoys backpacking, camping, sailing, reading, singing, and playing the piano.
Ward can be reached at
(630) 653-2300 ext. 505.