Lighthearts-UK was started back in 2013 by Katya Jezzard-Puyraud to promote a range of mental health and wellbeing therapies. Katya is an integrative psychotherapeutic counsellor and a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She holds a Level 5 Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling from the Counselling & Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body, and is also a qualified mindfulness instructor.

She currently works both privately and with counselling charities in Kent dealing with issues including anxiety, depression, trauma, sexual abuse, domestic violence, suicide, bereavement, addictions, eating disorders, gender and sexuality.

Katya also provides wellness and mental health services to corporate clients both in the UK and abroad. Her free online mental health resources - developed with a NHS senior psychiatric nurse and cognitive analytic therapist - continue to help thousands of sufferers of anxiety and depression all over the world.