FREE Help to Find the PERFECT Vision Therapy Office For You.

Hi my name is Melissa Daniels and I have strabismus. Strabismus is when your eyes

don't point in the same direction, kind of like this. I've been working really

hard the last three years getting my eyes to work together and look straight and now for the last six months I've been helping people like you to find a

vision therapy office or a strabismus surgeon who can help them get the same

results. Now I do this through a console over Zoom and I have a whole process that I use for

finding the right provider. I don't just google vision therapist near whatever city you give me

and then send that to you. I actually have a whole process that I go through to narrow down whether

it's a good office or not and there's a whole list of qualifications that I'm looking for

So I figured I would just share that with all of you because you could totally do it too. It does

take time and I actually have a really amazing offer that I'm giving at the end

of this video and I'm gonna give you a secret it's free so keep watching to the

end to get to that but first I'm gonna teach you how to find a vision therapy

office on your own that is going to give outstanding vision therapy

so first you've got to figure out who is doing the therapy the way most vision

therapy practices work is that you go in and you do the initial testing with

an optometrist and then they hand you over to a vision therapist and those are

the ones that are actually doing weekly sessions with you doing the actual

therapy and then like every 10 to 12 weeks sometimes 8 weeks you'll check

back in with the optometrist and have a progress check and they'll maybe tweak

the plan of care that they've given to the vision therapist anyways so that can

be a huge deal like for me I've been working with my optometrist for the

whole three years and I never even worked with a vision therapist actually until last week was my first appointment with the vision therapist and she was

fabulous but it just it makes a difference because as sad as it is like

anyone can say that they're a vision therapist anyone can say they practice

vision therapy there's no like law that is governing that and so you have to be

careful to make sure you're not getting somebody who has no experience for some

of the easier diagnoses, it's not going to be that big of a deal. They're going to, it's, it's pretty

straightforward. You follow these steps. I think of my husband's a physical therapist. So I think of

it in terms of what he does. Most any physical therapist that you go to can do post-surgery

rehab. It's very like cookie cutter, like, okay, they had a knee replacement. Now they do exercises

XYZ for 12 weeks, three times a week, and then they'll be better. And it works like every time

and it's kind of just clockwork. And then you've got your headache patients

and that's what he treats. And it's like every single one is a totally different case

and you have to completely tailor the plan based on like their background and everything

So, strabismus is gonna be more like the headache patient and maybe convergence insufficiency is more like the post rehab right So some cases you don need to have like this like super intense like been working for 10 years in the field and done all the strabismus things

Like not everybody needs that. But if you have strabismus, you definitely are going to need somebody who is more

you just need to make sure you have someone who has more experience. So that goes into number two, and that's just seeing what qualifications that they have

And that can kind of help you. You know, you'll probably call the office and they'll say, okay, yep, our vision therapy is all done by vision therapist or it's all done by the optometrist

And then your next question is, okay, what qualifications do they have

For an optometrist, you know, the letters behind their name are OD, right

If they graduate from optometry school. And then there's a lot of things they can do after optometry school to just make themselves a better optometrist

and so one of those things is called um now i'm going to forget it the college of vision development

a covd or fcovd if they're a fellow and basically the college of vision development like i feel like

i'm getting that wrong i might be but covd that's what it is um there it's all about vision therapy

and so they offer this extra certification that requires like a billion hours of continuing ed

an in-office practice under the tutelage of someone who's a really big expert. So that's

kind of like to me a basic necessity if you're going to be an optometrist practicing in vision

therapy that you have an FCOVD or a COVD. That being said, there's always exceptions. So don't

find an office and they are like perfect in every way but they don't have those letters

then that's okay. Like not every optometrist who's good has gotten that certification because

they're busy practicing vision therapy and doing amazing things and they didn't need it. But

it's just something to look for, right? You're just looking for these things. Okay, do they have

certifications? Have they done continuing education? There's another one that they can get for

Syntonix light therapy, which can be really powerful for a lot of people. So you can look

for those initials behind their name. So just kind of keep your eye out. There are definitely

optometrists who go get their COVD and then they don't really practice vision therapy and they're

I'm not good at vision therapy. So it can go either way, but it's something to look for

And then for vision therapists, this is where I feel like it makes an even bigger deal

because usually you're doing therapy with a vision therapist. What kind of certification do they have

Most vision therapists go through like at least a three-month training. It's like videos and things like that

that teach them how to do vision therapy. And then they are also working with the optometrist

But if you find one that is a COVT, so with an optometrist, it's COVD and vision therapist

COVT. I think it means they've worked for 2000 hours under an optometrist who's an FCOVD and they've

done like a million courses and all the things and they are usually like stellar

I've never heard of a COVT that wasn't just like top notch, so good at what they do

If you find an office that has COVTs I wouldn look any further Just go there they to be awesome I guess there always exceptions but to me that is like top vision therapist right

There, there's not very many of them. You can ask a question that I always ask when I am calling

these offices and kind of like feeling them out for people that schedule Zoom calls with me

I always ask, oh, do you have any COVTs at your office? And if they say no, I say, is there anyone

working on it and some are like yes we have one she's two months away she's so close and some are

like i don't know what that is what are you talking about i'm like red flag so it just sends

questions that you can ask and get a feel for the office and and really it's not like if they answer

yes that's good if they answer no it's bad it's just kind of helping you get information so that's

another question to ask what what kind of degrees and what kind of special certifications have they

gone. Last, just find out if they're specialized in vision therapy. My favorite way to do this

and maybe it's too simple, is I just go to their website and I look at the homepage

Is it full of like stock images of glasses and people in fancy glasses and it's all very stylish

about the glasses? If it's all focused about glasses, they're probably not like specialized

completely in vision therapy. Again, it doesn't mean it's bad, but it's just something to be leery

of can you even see what their like vision therapy information on their website the the offices that

are completely dedicated to vision therapy it's all over their website and they might be talking

about reading difficulties and anyways you can kind of get a lot out of what you see on their

website you can also call in and say do you offer what kind of eye care do you offer usually i would

say in yeah i don't know it's it's hard there's no like i said before there's no like always and

never but most of the time if they are all focused in on vision therapy they

probably aren't going to be offering glasses they'll say no go somewhere else for your glasses I'm just here to do therapy and that's when you know you've

got someone that's truly specialized in that and then also you can ask if they

treat adults or if you have a little kid who's really little a lot of offices

won't see patients below five years old but you can ask and just find out do you

specialize in little kids with strabismus do you specialize in adults with strabismus? Have you treated a lot of adults? If you live in a small town like me, you're not

going to have options. Luckily, the office I go to is awesome, but I think there's only two offices

in this area that offer vision therapy. And so you don't have a ton, you might not have a ton

of options, but if you live in a bigger city, there are options and offices are likely going to be

specializing in children and reading, or they might specialize in traumatic brain injury, or they might

be like a neuro optometrist those like the neuro TBI ones are going to be better with strabismus

I think I mean this is like my personal opinion right from just like what I've seen what I've

experienced talking to different optometrists getting tips and things from different offices

this is kind of what I've come these are the conclusions I've come to and then last I always ask what kind of technology they use in the office and And I not trying to trick anybody I just of want to know their style of vision therapy There different styles and they can all be amazing right

They all can be very successful, but do they have a style or are they just kind of going

through the motions? And so I'll ask, what kind of therapy do you do? What kind of technology do

you use? Do you use vivid vision or optics trainer with virtual reality? That can be really

really powerful for people with strabismus especially if you're suppressing one eye um

so that was so instrumental for me um technology isn't everything but it's definitely something

do they have a 3d tv and do vts for i think that's like vision therapy systems i can't remember what

it even stands for but there's different programs um home therapy system they have different things

they'll send patients home with to do on their home computers or like I said

before the virtual reality so just ask about that what do they do and what are

you expected to do at home all of this is going to paint a picture of the

office now you might not know exactly what you're going for because you might

not be as experienced in this field but you can tell a lot about a person as

they're answering these types of questions and you can just get a feel if

their therapy is going to match what you're looking for now if you want this

all in writing you can go to strabismusolutions.com finding VT and you'll

be able to see the whole article with all of these details I also have a list

of links for different countries so if you live in Canada or United Kingdom or

United States wherever you live there's different websites that you can go to

to actually search for a great vision therapy office. So that's all in that article

And then also, if you go to strabismusolutions.com slash findvt, so no I-N-G, just findvt

you can give me your name and email and fill out a little form

and I will help you find a vision therapy office for free

And this is only until June 1st, 2022. too. And so you basically just tell me where you live, what your condition is, and I will do the

work for you. And then I will just send you an email with between one and three vision therapy

offices that I think might be a good fit or a place for you to get started as you are looking

And if you don't want to wait, you can always schedule a consult with me and do this over Zoom

And that does cost money, but it's totally worth it. It's at strabismusolutions.com

slash consult. And that's for people who want to go more in depth about what their condition is

what they're experiencing, and I can help them decide and gauge whether vision therapy or surgery

or what direction would be best to start off with. And I also help find offices for those people. So

anyways, those are the two options. I'm super excited about this. A little bit nervous that I am

getting myself into quite an exciting fix, but I'm excited for it. Go check it out

Fill out that form and let me help you