 Lyn Freeman is a specialist, researcher, and consultant of mind-body medicine as treatment for chronic disease. She is the CEO/ President of Mind Matters Research, LLC, an Alaskan-based mind-body medicine research center. Lyn is currently principle investigator for a Phase II National Cancer Institute-funded research study of a mind-body imagery program she created for breast cancer survivors. The imagery program, entitled Envision the Rhythms of Life, produced statistically and clinically significant outcomes in Phase I and is currently being tested with survivors in Alaska and Washington state. The program was specifically designed to deal with PTSD, chemo-brain, fatigue, and other late-term and long-term effects of cancer and its treatments. Lyn has authored academic textbooks, chapters and medical manuals on the evidence, benefits and limitations of complementary and alternative medicine. Her most recent academic text is Mosby’s Complementary and Alternative Medicine: A Research Based Approach(3rd ed) (2008). She maintains a private practice in Anchorage, which specializes in counseling for cancer survivors and their family members.
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