Ligaya Lange is a mental health consultant specializing in employee well-being and workplace mental health. She is the Founder and CEO of Ligaya Wellness, LLC and previously served as Director of Corporate Outreach at the National Alliance on Mental Illness Greater Los Angeles County (NAMI GLAC), where she led the StigmaFree Workplace Program. In that role, she partnered with organizations to increase mental health awareness and education, strengthen communication, informing both managers and employees on how to openly discuss mental health in the workplace, and implement preventative strategies for mental health crises and challenges such as burnout, anxiety, etc that may occur in the workplace. 

 

Before transitioning into mental health, Ligaya spent 15 years in corporate roles at Twentieth Century Fox Studio, The Walt Disney Company, and a “Big Four” consulting firm. Her own mental health journey inspired her to want to help others and to shift careers in 2023.

 

Today, she designs and delivers customized programs tailored to the unique needs of diverse workplaces. She also speaks openly about her lived experience with anxiety and perinatal mental health challenges, including postpartum anxiety and OCD. Ligaya is the host of Let’s Get Mental, a podcast focused on education, empowerment, and reducing stigma. She holds a BA from UC Berkeley, an MA from USC, and is a certified Peer Support Specialist. She also holds various other mental health certifications related to workplace wellness. Ligaya was born and raised in San Clemente, CA. She is half-Filipino and her name, Ligaya, means “happiness” or “joy” in Tagalog/Filipino.