We specialize in treating chronic disease

Our medical clinics focus on just a few serious diseases that are considered difficult or impossible to treat using standard medical techniques. We currently treat Lyme disease, Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), and Asperger's syndrome.

We have a number of other diseases in the developmental pipeline, and we plan on being able to offer treatments for them in 2025. Specifically: autism, Parkinson's disease, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), Type 1 diabetes, and tinnitus. If you are interested in these upcoming disease treatments, please contact us to be put on a waiting list.

"Pay for Results" treatments
For most clients, our processes eliminate the symptoms of these diseases. In fact, we have a 'pay for results' policy - if the symptoms we agree to treat are not eliminated, there is no fee to you, the client.

We use psycho-immunology techniques
We use non-drug, non-surgical psychoimmunology techniques for our treatments. Treatment time is usually around 10 hours. Our work is based on the discovery that many of the 'incurable' conditions are actually caused by very early trauma at critical developmental events in the client's prenatal growth. If you are a therapist or physician, or want more in-depth information on our research or training efforts, we refer you to our main research institute website, or feel free to contact us. We also publish textbooks on our work.

About us
Our driving purpose is to bring people with chronic diseases back to normal health. There are five people in the core team: Kirsten Lykkegaard DVM PhD runs the Danish clinic together with Leif Pedersen. Kirsten is also the Institute's research director, with a PhD in pharmacology as well as being a doctor of veterinary medicine. Kirsten was a principal scientist on the team that later led to the development of the tremendously effective weight loss drugs at the Danish drug company Novo Nordisk. Mary Pellicer MD runs our Yakima, WA US clinic. Trained as a family practitioner, she worked for a number of years in a community and migrant health clinic. She is also the Institute's medical director, responsible for testing our treatments' efficacy and outcomes. She also leads the team that does the phase 1 and phase 2 clinical trials on new treatments. Shayne McKenzie runs our Byron Bay, Australia clinic. He's also the CEO of the Institute, an international volunteer research organization that developed the treatments used in our clinics. Grant McFetridge PhD runs the research efforts in Canada. He founded the Institute in 1998, and is its main theoretician. Leif Pedersen runs the Danish clinic together with Kirsten Lykkegaard. He is the Danish clinic director and an experienced long-time (17 years) researcher and clinical therapist in the Institute. As a registered psychotherapist and supervisor he is also a member of the association of Danish psychotherapists (Foreningen af Danske Psychoterapeuter, FaDP).

Contact us to learn more, or to make an appointment
Feel free to email or phone us during office hours at our Vejle Nord, Danish clinic.

All our best,
Kirsten Lykkegaard DVM PhD, Research Director
Leif Pedersen, Danish Clinic Director
The Psychoimmunology Institute