Dr. Sam Berne works at the intersection of vision, nervous system regulation, and embodied perception.

Trained as an optometrist and informed by decades of clinical, somatic, and ecological inquiry, his work focuses on how perception is biologically organized — and how it can be restored when narrowed by trauma, stress, modern technologies, or cultural conditioning.

Drawing inspiration from the phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, the cultural and neurological insights of Iain McGilchrist, and the ecological perception work of David Abram. Berne translates these traditions into lived, physiological experience.

His work also resonates with Indigenous models of perception that understand seeing as relational, participatory, and inseparable from the living world.

Rather than treating conditions, Berne facilitates perceptual reorganization — helping individuals restore depth, presence, and coherence in how they meet reality.