Lighthearts-UK was started back in 2013 by Katya Jezzard-Puyraud to promote mental health and wellbeing therapies. Katya is a qualified integrative counsellor and a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She holds a Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling from the Counselling & Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body and is also a qualified mindfulness instructor.

She currently works both privately and at several counselling charities in Kent dealing with issues including anxiety, depression, trauma, sexual abuse, domestic violence, suicide, bereavement, addictions, eating disorders and gender issues. She also provides wellness and mental health services to corporate clients both in the UK and abroad. Her free online mental health courses - 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.