Practice Owner / Optometrist

Carolyn McIlvin

Carolyn is an experienced optometrist in behavioural vision care, myopia control, and neuro-optometric rehabilitation. She is passionate about helping children with visual learning difficulties and serves on the board of the Australasian College of Behavioural Optometrists (ACBO). Carolyn services all ages with full scope optometry, and she is particularly passionate about helping young children.

About the author

Carolyn graduated from Optometry School in South Africa and completed bridging qualifications and registration in the United Kingdom. She has been working in Australia since 1990, much of which was spend as a behavioural optometrist in Sydney Since the age of 13 Carolyn has wanted to be an optometrist. With a family history of myopia, she had regular visits to the optometrist. During her final years at University, the Paediatric and Children’s Vision components were what she most enjoyed. Her passion for behavioural vision was ignited when she found that she could not help all the patients she was evaluating, due to more complex difficulties which were not addressed with standard optometric care. Since then Carolyn has completed her Fellowship in Behavioural Optometry (FACBO) and the Advanced Accreditation of Neuro Optometric Care (ANOC). In addition Carolyn has completed the Behavioural Masters unit at UNSW, as well as the Optometric Extension Foundation Program (USA).
Carolyn enjoys full scope optometry as myopia control, Ortho K and general optometry. However, her major interest lies in working with children with visually related learning difficulties and providing eyecare kids can rely on. She also treats patients with strabismus and amblyopia, and those recovering from brain injuries or concussions. For the last 15 years Carolyn has been working on the Northern Beaches of Sydney where she developed the vision therapy programme for the practice where she was working, as well as training the therapists. Don’t hesitate to book in with a Northern Beaches Optometrist today by calling 02 9982 1039 with any questions or to schedule a consultation!

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