Yuliya Kostenko is the founder and the leading therapist at the Leech Therapy Centre UK. She is a highly qualified practitioner having completed over 10 years of continuous education in complementary medicine. Yuliya has studied Leech Therapy with top experts in the world at National Professional Association of Specialists of Alternative Medicine and Health Practices under Konstantin Sukhov and Lubov Kostikova (Moscow, Russia), followed by training at the Saint-Petersburg Hirudology Association with professor Albert Krasheniyk. In addition, she has studied with the president of Association of Leech Therapy of Ukraine Olga Kozinska and others prominent teachers worldwide. Finally, in 2019 she participated in the World’s 3rd Hirudotherapy Congress.