ABOUT

ABOUT DR MICHAEL CHRISTIAN

Dr Michael Christian, PhD (Optometrist), has spent 33 years asking a question most clinicians never consider: what happens to the rest of the body when you change how light enters the eyes?

The answer became Quantum Photo-Somatics — a registered somatic modality, two published books, a PhD in Integrative Medicine, and 43,680+ documented clinical sessions spanning clients from 8+ countries. Michael is Board Certified with the Board of Integrative Medicine (North America), an Executive Member of the International Institute of Complementary Therapists (IICT), and a Registered Optometrist (AHPRA). He didn't just practice within an existing discipline. He built a new one.

Want to experience Michael's work directly? Book a Quansultation — one hour, in person, no referral needed.

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The Story

The Moment That Started Everything

In 1995, working as a young locum optometrist at OPSM Highpoint in Melbourne, Michael saw an elderly Italian gentleman whose family thought he'd been drinking. He hadn't been drinking. His balance was gone — and nobody had connected it to his eyes.

In a half-hour appointment, Michael experimented with prisms, adjusting how light entered the visual system. He asked the man to come back that afternoon. When he put on the adjusted lenses, he walked out of the practice balanced, upright, steady — as though he was a young man.

The family came back. "His whole life has changed for Papa."

That moment planted a question Michael has spent three decades answering: if a prism can shift balance in thirty minutes, what else is the visual system connected to?

The answer turned out to be everything — posture, movement, cognition, emotional regulation, the way the nervous system organises itself.

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From Observation to Modality

What began as a clinical observation became a life's work. QPS evolved through three distinct phases:

Discovery: The Visual-Somatic Correlation (1993–2000). Clinical optometry practice with emerging observations about the connection between lenses, prisms, and whole-body function. The Highpoint moment was the catalyst.

Formalisation: The Clinical Framework (2000–2019). PhD research documenting the theoretical and clinical foundation. First book published — In

Focus: Vision, Mind & Body (2016). Clinical frameworks developed: the SEE Framework and AIM Framework. The methodology was being practised daily but hadn't yet been formally recognised as a distinct modality.

Registration and Recognition: The Institutional Foundation (2019–present). IICT registration as a modality (2019). Professional indemnity insurance through BMS. Second book published — From Seeing to Being: An Introduction to Qualitivity (2025). Board of Integrative Medicine certification. Executive membership with IICT. The Coherence Constant research in development.

Nobody told Michael to build a modality. He saw that nobody was connecting vision to the whole body, so he built the clinical framework to do it — one session at a time, over 33 years, until the evidence demanded formal recognition.

Credentials & Qualifications
  • PhD in Integrative Medicine — IQUIM, Hawaii (conferred 2013/14)
  • Board Certification — Board of Integrative Medicine, North America
  • Registered Optometrist — AHPRA
  • Specialist Certificate in Clinical Leadership (2018)
  • Honorary Doctor of Humanitarian Services
  • Executive Member, IICT — governance-level role
  • Creator of Quantum Photo-Somatics — IICT-registered since 2019
  • Author — two published books on the QPS methodology
  • Founder — Microprism Vision, Melbourne
Published Works
In Focus: Vision, Mind & Body (2016)

Documents the theoretical and clinical foundation of QPS.

From Seeing to Being: An Introduction to Qualitivity (2025)

Advances the QPS framework into consciousness and presence.

Third book in progress

Coming Soon (2026).

Why This Work Matters

"I want to see the best in people. That's as simple as that."

Michael doesn't frame his work as correcting deficits. He frames it as redirecting process — activating what's already there but not functioning. The relentless pursuit of miracles, he calls it. Not miracles in the mystical sense, but in the clinical one: the boy who couldn't read suddenly seeing trees on a distant building. The woman on a blind pension driving herself to the shops. The grandfather walking like a young man.

What drives Michael isn't the eye test. It's the moment when someone realises that something else is possible — whether or not they choose to go along for the ride. Thirty-three years in, he's still showing up for that moment.

Curious about what that moment could look like for you? See how QPS sessions work →

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By The Numbers

33 years

of clinical practice, continuous application since 1993

43,680+

documented sessions across a diverse client base

PhD research

documenting the relationship between vision, posture, balance, and whole-body function

2

published books documenting the methodology, clinical frameworks, and outcomes

IICT registration

since 2019 with professional indemnity insurance through BMS

8+ countries

International client base

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: How long has Dr Michael Christian been practising?

A: Dr Christian has been in clinical practice for 33 years, graduating in optometry in 1993. He developed [Quantum Photo-Somatics](/methodology/) over 26 years, beginning with formal development around 2000, after initial clinical observations in 1995. He registered QPS as a formal modality with the IICT in 2019, and has documented over 43,680 clinical sessions.

Q: Has Dr Christian published any books about QPS?

A: Dr Christian has published two books: *In Focus: Vision, Mind & Body* (2016), which documents the theoretical and clinical foundation of QPS, and *From Seeing to Being: An Introduction to Qualitivity* (2025), which advances the framework into consciousness and presence. A third book is in progress.

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Work With Michael

Quantum Photo-Somatics begins with a single session. A Quansultation is a one-hour, in-person experience of QPS with Dr Michael Christian in Melbourne.

No referral needed. No ongoing commitment.

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