Contact
Phone
Fax
Videophone (for voice callers or VP users): (585) 286-5041
Request an Appointment: Online Appointment Request Form
Hours
Monday–Thursday 8 a.m.−6 p.m.
Friday 9 a.m.−6 p.m.
Overview
The Deaf Wellness Center (DWC) is a program of the University of Rochester Medical Center, based in its Department of Psychiatry. The DWC staff engage in clinical services, teaching, and research activities that pertain to mental health, healthcare, sign language interpreting, and other topics that affect the lives of people who are deaf or hard-of-hearing. See our Deaf Wellness Center brochure for additional information.
Services
The Deaf Wellness Center (DWC) provides mental health evaluation and counseling services to deaf, hard-of-hearing, deaf-blind, deaf disabled, late-deafened, and CODA adults (17 years or older) in New York state.
Counseling services are available for:
- Mental health problems such as depression, anxiety, trauma, bipolar disorder, or others
- Domestic violence
- Marriage, family, or relationship problems
- Grief/loss
- Difficult life transitions
- Deaf identity issues
- Sexual or gender identity issues
- Cultural conflicts
- Communication problems
- Adjustment problems
Services may be provided in-person or remotely through Video Phone or Zoom.
All counseling services are provided in American Sign Language (ASL) by deaf and ASL-fluent providers. We offer interpreting services (including deaf interpreters), live captioning, and other accommodations as needed.