Gender Female
Lyn Freeman is a specialist, researcher, and consultant of mind-body programs and behavioral medicine interventions as treatment for chronic disease. She is the CEO/ President of Mind Matters Research LLC, an Alaskan-based research and behavioral medicine treatment center. Between 2004 and 2011, Dr. Freeman was principle investigator for a
Phase I and II National Cancer Institute-funded research study of an imagery program she created for breast cancer survivors. The imagery program, entitled for the public as "Envision the Rhythms of Life," produced statistically and clinically significant outcomes in both phases. The Intervention was tested with survivors in Alaska and Washington state.
The Intervention was specifically designed to deal with stress, chemo-brain, fatigue, sleep deprivation, anxiety and depression and other late-term and long-term effects of cancer and its treatments. Dr. Freeman 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) (2009). She maintains a private practice in Anchorage that specializes in counseling and behavioral medicine for cancer survivors and their family members. You may contact Dr. Freeman by email at lfreeman@mindmattersresearch.com or phone at (907) 868-7737 or (toll-free) 1-866-266-7633.
