W. Hobart Davies, PhD
Provides psychotherapy, for young children, from the age of five, teens and through adults, including couples. Specializing in treatment of depression, trauma, anxiety, panic attacks, social skills, divorce, co-parenting, eating disorders, chronic illness, grief and domestic violence. ​
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Psychologist
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Academic Appointment​
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Dr. Davies is Professor and Chair of Psychological & Brain Sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He earned his PhD from Michigan State University in 1992.​
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Research and Academic Interests​
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His academic interests include pediatric psychology, clinical child and adolescent psychology, pediatric feeding disorders, pediatric chronic illness, community violence, and child abuse.​
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He directs the Child Stress and Coping Lab at UW–Milwaukee, which studies how children and families cope and adapt when living through extreme stress, such as pediatric chronic illness. Work in the lab has included interdisciplinary care for pediatric feeding disorders, interventions with young people affected by community violence, chronic illness, stalking behavior, and forensic child abuse investigation.​
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Teaching​
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At UW–Milwaukee he teaches Child Psychology, Introduction to Clinical Psychology, and Psychological Assessment of Children and Adolescents.​
