Clarkson Eyecare was founded in 1979 by Lawrence J. Jehling, O.D. and Lynette S. Lui, O.D. as the Jehling-Lui Eye Associates on Clarkson Road in Ellisville, Missouri. In 1983, Dr. Jehling moved the practice one block north to its current location and renamed the practice Clarkson Eyecare.

In 1985 Dr. Jehling opened a second office in Pacific, Missouri, called Pacific Eyecare. A full-service lens-grinding laboratory was added to the Pacific location in 1987.

Drs. Wachter, Allhoff, Reynolds and Lamberg - along with Dr. Jehling and his brother, Gerald Jehling - merged the Ellisville and Pacific offices with Osage Eyecare in House Springs, Missouri, and The Eye Institute of St. Louis in Clayton, Missouri, in 1995. All four offices took the name Clarkson Eyecare. The merger ignited the rapid growth of the company.

Today, Clarkson Eyecare has offices in 141 & Olive, 79 Crossing, Arnold, Ballwin, Brentwood, Chesterfield, Chesterfield Valley, Creve Coeur, Ellisville, Eureka, Fenton, Festus, Florissant, Harvester, High Ridge, House Springs, Kirkwood, Maplewood, Mid Rivers, O'Fallon North, O'Fallon South, Pacific, Rock Hill, South County, Town & Country, Troy, Union, Warrenton, Washington, Webster Groves, Wentzville, and Wildwood, MO and Belleville, Columbia, Edwardsville, Fairview Heights, and Shiloh, IL.

There are two state-of-the-art LASIK Surgery Centers – Chesterfield Valley and Fairview Heights.