Sharon L. Haynes, LMSW has been a social worker at the University of Rochester Medical Center's Deaf Wellness Center (DWC) since November, 2002. She is a graduate of Syracuse University's master's degree program in Social Work. Ms. Haynes provides individual, couples, family, and group psychotherapy services and participates in the DWC's teaching and research initiatives. Ms. Haynes has attended numerous Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) training programs, including a two-week intensive program.

She and her colleagues at the DWC launched DBT treatment after modifying DBT materials and methods for Deaf clients. She played a leading role in Opposite Action and Radical Acceptance , DBT skills training films produced by the DWC. She has also participated in modifying as well as acting in films created for Deaf audiences for the Centers for Disease Control. Ms. Haynes also teaches ASL classes held at the DWC.

Ms. Haynes is interim executive director and has been the advocate coordinator for Advocacy Service for Deaf Abused Victims in Rochester, New York since 2006. She provides numerous hours of advocate training and community training. She, along with four other women, founded ASADV in 1998 after attending domestic violence training at Abused Deaf Women's Advocacy Services (ADWAS) in Seattle, taught by ADWAS founder, Marilyn Smith. Ms. Haynes was a board member of ASADV from 2003-2006. Ms Haynes is currently a task force member on a grant-funded project adapting a partner violence training curriculum for Deaf audiences.