Vision therapy

Helping Your Eyes & Brain Work Better Together!

Clear vision is more than seeing 20/20. Your eyes need to work together as a team — moving, focusing, coordinating, and processing visual information comfortably and efficiently.

At C .Well Vision Care Optometry, Dr. Michelle provides personalized Vision Therapy designed to help patients develop and strengthen these essential visual skills.

WHAT IS VISION Therapy?

Vision Therapy is a personalized, optometrist-directed program that uses structured visual activities to develop, rehabilitate, and enhance visual skills and processing.

Think of it as physical therapy for the visual system — helping the eyes and brain communicate and work together more effectively.

Vision Therapy may incorporate specialized activities, lenses, prisms, filters, instruments, and technology, depending on each patient's individual needs.

Most importantly, your program is personalized to you and based on your symptoms, visual needs, and evaluation results.

WHO MAY BENEFIT?

Vision Therapy may be considered for children, teens, and adults experiencing certain visual conditions or difficulties, including:

CONVERGENCE INSUFFICIENCY

Difficulty getting the eyes to work together comfortably during reading or other close-up activities. Possible symptoms include:

  • Eye strain or fatigue

  • Headaches

  • Blurred or double vision

  • Difficulty concentrating

  • Words appearing to move or swim

  • Avoiding reading or close work

VISION-RELATED LEARNING DIFFICULTIES

Some visual conditions can interfere with reading, learning, and other visually demanding activities. Children may experience:

  • Losing their place while reading

  • Easily frustrated with too much print on a page

  • Reverses letters, numbers, words

  • Poor handwriting

  • Poor coordination

AMBLYOPIA

Amblyopia—also known as lazy eye—is the loss or lack of development of clear vision in one or both eyes.

STRABISMUS

When the eyes are not properly aligned and may turn inward, outward, upward, or downward.

SIGNS to look for

Do you or your child…

Avoid reading or close-up work?

Frequently lose their place while reading?

Cover or close one eye?

Complain of headaches or tired eyes?

Rub their eyes frequently?

Struggle with catching balls or other sports?

Adults may experience similar symptoms... during computer work, reading, studying, driving, or other visually demanding activities. If these symptoms sound familiar, a comprehensive evaluation can help determine whether an underlying visual condition may be contributing.

Experiencing any symptoms while working on the computer or doing school work? Take this survey below!

Convergence Insufficiency Symptom Survey

YOUR VISION THERAPY JOURNEY

  • COMPREHENSIVE VISION THERAPY EVALUATION

    1. COMPREHENSIVE VISION THERAPY EVALUATION

    Dr. Michelle evaluates how your eyes function individually and together, including visual tracking, eye movement, focusing and visual processing. The goal is to identify underlying visual challenges and determine whether Vision Therapy may be appropriate.

  • PERSONALIZED PLAN

    2. PERSONALIZED PLAN

    Every patient is unique. Based on your evaluation, Dr. Michelle develops an personalized plan with specific goals based on the results from the comprehensive Vision Therapy Evaluation.

  • IN-OFFICE THERAPY + HOME PRACTICE

    3. IN-OFFICE THERAPY + HOME PRACTICE

    Vision Therapy typically combines structured in-office activities with exercises to practice at home.

    These activities are designed to reinforce the visual skills being developed during therapy.

  • MEASURE & MONITOR PROGRESS

    4. MEASURE & MONITOR PROGRESS

    Your progress is monitored throughout your program. Depending on your goals, we may track changes in areas such as focusing, eye coordination, reading-related visual skills, and overall visual comfort.

A woman smiling and holding a brock string to her nose used for vision therapy.
A woman wearing 3D glasses smiling while looking at an optical illusion or display with colorful graphics used for vision therapy.
Young girl using a peg board rotator with red and green lines and pegs used for vision therapy.
Young child arranging white blocks with black symbols and numbers on a white table used for vision therapy.

FAQs

  • Vision Therapy (often described as physical therapy for the eyes) aims to train and strengthen the connection between the eyes and the brain to functionally and optimally see as clearly as possible. Vision Therapy aims to retrain what has already been learned through sight.

    It’s an optometrist led program focused on retraining the visual system.

  • It varies dependent upon the patient. Most programs last 10 to 20 sessions, with weekly in person sessions at the office and daily practices at home.

Get in touch

C .Well Vision Care Optometry is happy to walk you through our evidence-based approach to Vision Therapy and how it could positively impact your vision.

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