Excellent vision is critically important in life, and we are committed to helping all of our patients maximize their vision and visual skills to achieve their goals, whatever they may be. So how are we different?

Who We Are

We look at the eye, brain & body connection

Vision is much more than 20/20. We are committed to helping our patients avoid needless struggles in school, sports, work, and life because of visual problems that are not typically detected by vision screenings or routine exams. Read about all of the visual skills beyond eye sight that we evaluate and treat here.

Our passion is functional optometry and vision therapy - you can expect us to always look at your visual skills and optical prescriptions through a functional and performance-based approach.

We Spend Time

We take the time to get to know our patients, starting with a thorough, holistic history. Then, we dedicate extra time to evaluate the entire visual system, which is so much more than eyesight. While the average doctor-patient interaction time continues to reduce across the U.S., new patients are scheduled a minimum of 60 minutes of doctor time.

Who We Are Not

An Optical

Although we love prescribing lenses, especially refining and troubleshooting the best prescriptions for comfort and performance, we do not sell or make glasses.

We will happily trial lenses, prisms, and tints with you for you to then bring to your favorite local optical.

Ocular Disease Monitors

For ocular healthcare, like monitoring eye pressure or retinal health, we refer adults to primary eye care providers. This is important for older adults and those with comorbidities like diabetes or hypertension.

We collaborate with our surrounding optometry and ophthalmology colleagues for this piece of eye care.

Did you know...

The term “20/20” means someone can clearly see the letters on the chart 20 feet away. When someone fails this test, they typically get glasses or contacts to help them see clearly far away. A child, or an adult, might excel at seeing and saying the letters on the vision chart on the wall, yet still lack the necessary visual skills for reading, writing, learning, sports or work. School vision screenings, and even some regular eye exams, generally evaluate eyesight only and most do not assess the crucial vision skills that are required to excel in the classroom, on the field, and in the workplace.

Eyesight is just the beginning!

In addition to evaluating visual acuity (eyesight) with the eye chart (or with fun pictures and toys for the babies), we evaluate the following areas to ensure that our patients have excellent vision and visual skills necessary for success in school, sports, work and beyond:

Refractive Error – the presence of farsightedness, nearsightedness, and/or astigmatism
Eye Focusing – the ability to maintain clear vision over a period of time like when reading a book and the ability to quickly and accurately maintain clear vision when looking from far to near and back like when looking from the board in class to paper on a desk.
Eye Tracking – the ability to accurately and efficiently move the eyes along a printed page like when reading or to follow a moving object like a thrown ball.
Eye Teaming – the ability to use both eyes together, see in depth or “3D”, and judge distances.
Peripheral Vision – the ability to be aware of, but not distracted by, information in one’s side vision.
Eye-Hand Coordination – the ability to use visual information to direct motor movements like when writing or trying to hit a ball.
Visual Perception – composed of many skills that result in the brain’s ability to organize and interpret what is seen including things like telling the difference between letters like “b” and “d”, creating a “picture” in one’s mind to comprehend what is read, and remembering and recalling what is seen.