Mixed Mental Health was founded on a deeply personal understanding of the unique challenges faced by mixed-heritage and multi-cultural individuals in accessing appropriate mental health care. Our founders, drawing on their own lived experience as multiracial and mixed heritage therapists and conversations within the mixed therapeutic community, recognised a critical gap.
There was a clear lack of visibility for therapists who understood the nuances of mixed race identity, cultural multiplicity and the impact of the mixed lived experience. This platform is our answer – a dedicated space built by and for the mixed-heritage community to find and access appropriate mental health care.
Mixed Mental Health operates as a Community Interest Company (CIC) Limited by Guarantee. This means our primary purpose is to serve the mixed community, not to generate private profit. Every surplus income is reinvested directly into our social mission: funding therapy subsidies, practitioner training, and free community resources.
Our asset lock ensures our resources are perpetually dedicated to the benefit of the mixed-heritage and multi-cultural community. When you engage with Mixed Mental Health, you’re supporting a movement for equitable mental health.
Your contribution directly fuels our mission to make culturally competent mental health support visible and accessible. By supporting us, you help provide a safe space for mixed-heritage individuals to find therapists who truly understand their lived experience. Together, we can ensure that every multi-cultural person feels recognized, heard, and supported in their mental health journey.
Lydia Puricelli is Co-Founder of Mixed Mental Health and Founder of Conscious Culture Coach. She is a Transcultural, Trauma-Informed and Transpersonal Psychotherapist, Executive Coach, Speaker and Trainer whose work sits at the intersection of mental health, personal and professional development and social justice.
Her perspective is shaped by her mixed heritage — Indian Punjabi, Italian, Irish and English — and a Mauritian Creole cultural background. Growing up in a multi-racial, multi-faith family informs her understanding of identity, belonging and the complex ways culture, race and power shape lived experience.
Lydia specialises in supporting Mixed/ Multi-heritage, Black people, People of Colour and marginalised communities navigating the emotional and systemic impacts of racism, discrimination and oppression in workplaces and therapeutic spaces. She delivers organisational training, facilitates support groups and works with leaders to build more inclusive and psychologically safe cultures.
Lydia trained under Dr Isha McKenzie-Mavinga, delivers anti-racist training for therapists through Black African and Asian Therapy Network, is featured in the book about Intersectional, Anti-Racist and Intercultural approaches in therapy Therapy in Colour. She is also a contributor to The Mixed + Multiracial Guide to Wellbeing.
Jamila Andersson is Co-Founder of Mixed Mental Health and an Integrative, Transpersonal, Trauma-Informed and Transcultural Psychotherapist and UKCP Full Clinical Member. She runs a private practice, Remember Who We Are Therapy.
Her work supports clients navigating anxiety, depression, identity formation, chronic pain, intergenerational trauma and the emotional impacts of systemic oppression. Jamila’s approach is relational and integrative, drawing on transpersonal, psychodynamic, humanistic and Gestalt traditions, with a strong focus on the mind body connection and the interplay between emotional, psychological and somatic experience.
Her culturally informed perspective is shaped by her Nigerian Filipino heritage. Raised within a Catholic Muslim family across Nigeria and the Philippines and living in the UK for over 25 years, she brings a nuanced understanding of bicultural identity, belonging and what it means to be fully seen.
Alongside her clinical work, Jamila is a Master Facilitator of Dr Isha McKenzie-Mavinga’s The Challenges of Racism in Therapy, delivering anti-racist training within therapeutic and professional spaces. She is a former Chair of the Students of Colour and Allies Network at the Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy Education and a contributor to The Mixed + Multiracial Guide to Wellbeing.
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