Find Your Balance. Hear Life Clearly.
AFA Balance & Hearing Institute is a Mesa audiology practice with advanced vestibular testing, often within days of referral.
Balance and Hearing Services
From advanced vestibular testing and same-day BPPV treatment to hearing evaluations, hearing aids, and earwax removal in Mesa, AZ.
Advanced Balance and Hearing Care in Mesa
As an audiologist in Mesa, AZ, AFA Balance & Hearing Institute runs a complete vestibular battery under one roof: rotational chair, computerized dynamic posturography, VNG, vHIT, and VEMP. Only a handful of Arizona clinics operate this equipment.
Physicians across the East Valley send patients here for answers, from primary care to neurology and ENT. Most are seen within days of referral.
Care is delivered by a Doctor of Audiology with 16 years of vestibular specialization at Mayo Clinic Arizona.
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Balance & Hearing Care in Mesa, AZ
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Meet Your Mesa Audiology Team
Led by a Doctor of Audiology with 16 years of vestibular specialization, our Mesa team delivers advanced balance testing and personalized hearing care.
Leadership
Daniel Hewson
Co-OwnerDan Hewson co-owns AFA Balance & Hearing Institute with his wife, Cynthia. Born and raised in Western New York, he has spent his career in the hearing health field, including work with several of the largest otolaryngology practices in the country and a role as Regional Manager with the Siemens Medical Audiology Division. He and Cynthia co-founded the sister practice, Ascent Audiology, in 2015.
Dan came to this work through his own experience. He grew up with moderate to severe sensorineural hearing loss and has worn hearing aids since childhood — more than 40 years. He has also lived with tinnitus and vertigo firsthand, which gives him an unusually direct understanding of what patients arriving at a balance and hearing clinic are going through. Education is his first priority, and he is at his most engaged hearing a patient's story and sharing his own.
Outside the clinic, Dan spends his time with Cynthia and their three children, and can be found playing softball, golf, and tennis or attending church.
Leadership
Cynthia Hewson
Co-OwnerCynthia Hewson co-owns AFA Balance & Hearing Institute with her husband, Daniel, and serves as Practice Manager. She co-founded the sister practice, Ascent Audiology, with Daniel in 2015.
Audiology
Dr. Matthew Wester, Au.D.
Doctor of AudiologyDr. Matthew Wester is a Doctor of Audiology with more than 20 years of clinical practice in Arizona. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from Sonoma State University in 1993 and his Doctor of Audiology from the University of Memphis in 2006, with additional academic training at California State University, Chico.
Before joining the practice, Dr. Wester spent 16 years at Mayo Clinic Arizona specializing in vestibular and balance assessment, diagnostic audiology, and hearing loss and tinnitus rehabilitation — the exact clinical focus that defines the AFA Balance & Hearing Institute. His experience spans diagnostic testing, balance assessment, hearing conservation, and hearing rehabilitative services including hearing aid fitting.
Dr. Wester holds a Certificate of Clinical Competence in Audiology (CCC-A) and an Arizona license as a Dispensing Audiologist, and holds the academic rank of Instructor of Audiology. He has been an invited guest lecturer at national seminars and educational training courses. His treatment recommendations are grounded in research on the impact that treating hearing loss has on speech understanding, cognitive health, social engagement, and overall quality of life.
Support
Michele B.
Strategic Marketing and Admin CoordinatorMichele is the Strategic Marketing and Admin Coordinator at AFA Balance & Hearing Institute, supporting community outreach, provider relations, and clinic administration.
Serving Mesa and the East Valley Since 2013
AFA Balance & Hearing Institute has served Mesa since January 2013 and remains a clinical teaching site for A.T. Still University's audiology program.
The practice accepts VA Community Care, Vocational Rehabilitation, Medicare Advantage, AHCCCS, and most major plans, plus discounted self-pay fees with no income qualification.
Hearing care runs alongside the balance work: every fitting is verified with Real Ear measurement, and most repairs are handled in our on-site lab.
The AFA Promise to Every Patient
Whether you're here for a balance evaluation, a diagnostic hearing test, or a new set of hearing aids, you'll be cared for by credentialed clinicians using the same equipment that draws physician referrals from across the East Valley. Every new hearing aid fitting also includes a 45-day trial period, so you can wear your devices through real life in Mesa before you commit.
Patient Stories
See what Mesa and East Valley patients say about the balance testing and hearing care they received at AFA.
Answers for Dizziness and Hearing Loss in Mesa
Advanced balance testing and audiology care on Baseline Road, with most referrals seen within days.
Serving Mesa & the East Valley
Audiologist in Mesa, AZ
Our Mesa office on Baseline Road houses the full vestibular battery — rotational chair, posturography, VNG, vHIT, and VEMP — alongside complete diagnostic hearing care.
- Rotational chair and posturography, rare in Arizona
- Doctor of Audiology care at every step
- VA Community Care, Medicare, and AHCCCS accepted
- Referral appointments within days, sometimes same-day
- All major hearing aid brands, verified with Real Ear
- Serving Mesa and the East Valley since 2013
“Very helpful and willing to educate on what they’re doing as they go and make sure you understand, very patient highly recommend 😊 Went in very nervous, left feeling educated knowledgeable…”— Jon Howard, Google Review
AFA Balance & Hearing Institute
4838 E. Baseline Road, Suite #126, Mesa, AZ 85206
| Monday | 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM |
| Tuesday | 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM |
| Wednesday | 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM |
| Thursday | 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM |
| Friday | 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM |
| Saturday | Closed |
| Sunday | Closed |
Closed daily from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM.
Get directionsHearing and Balance FAQs
Common questions about balance testing, hearing evaluations, and hearing aids at AFA Balance & Hearing Institute in Mesa, AZ, including referrals, insurance, and what to expect.
AFA Balance & Hearing Institute sees patients by appointment at 4838 E. Baseline Road, Suite #126, Mesa, AZ 85206, in the Pierpont Commons complex just west of Higley Road. The office is open Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM and 1:00 PM to 4:30 PM, and closed on weekends.
Call (480) 265-8067 to schedule, or send an appointment request through the form on this page and a patient care coordinator will call you back. Diagnostic testing always requires an appointment. Walk-ins are welcome for hearing aid checks and minor repairs, though calling ahead helps make sure someone is free to help you when you arrive.
Most patients arrive on a referral from their doctor. Family practice, internal medicine, neurology, ENT, and oncology providers across the East Valley send patients to us for vestibular testing. A referral is not always required to be seen, but many insurance plans require one before they cover balance testing, so it is worth checking your benefits first.
If your physician has already sent a referral, we can usually schedule you within a few days, and sometimes the same day. A detailed diagnostic report goes back to your referring provider after the visit, so the next step in your care is not held up. Call (480) 265-8067 if you are unsure where your referral stands.
In most cases, yes. We bill VA Community Care, Vocational Rehabilitation, UnitedHealthcare, Cigna, Aetna, Medicare, Medicare Advantage plans, AHCCCS, and most other major commercial plans. Several of these are plans other practices in the area decline, which is one reason physicians route patients to us.
One detail that saves confusion: this location shares a tax ID with our sister practice, Ascent Audiology & Hearing, so some insurers still list us as Ascent at the Mesa address. If your plan's directory shows Ascent on Baseline Road, that is us. For patients without coverage, discounted self-pay fees are available with no income qualification, and fees are explained before testing begins. Call (480) 265-8067 to verify your benefits.
A VNG, or videonystagmography, records eye movement to evaluate how your inner ear responds across three subtests: ocular motor, positional, and caloric. It is the standard starting battery for dizziness and vertigo, and it is where most balance workups begin.
Rotational chair testing adds what a VNG cannot capture. It measures how well your eyes and inner ear coordinate across a range of head speeds while a computer-driven chair turns you at controlled rates. That makes it especially useful when both ears are affected, when VNG results are unclear, or when a physician wants to track change over time. Only a few Arizona facilities have this equipment, and both tests are performed here in Mesa.
Yes. Balance and vestibular diagnostics make up most of our clinical volume, but this is a full-service audiology practice. We provide hearing evaluations for adults and teens, electrophysiology such as ABR and ECochG, tinnitus evaluation and sound therapy, custom hearing protection, earwax removal, and hearing aid fittings verified with real ear measurement.
On the hearing aid side, we work with every major manufacturer rather than a single supplier, verify each new fitting with Real Ear measurement, and service most brands in our on-site technology lab. Plenty of patients come to us in Mesa for a balance workup and learn they also have a treatable hearing loss, so keeping both under one roof means nothing gets missed.