"This person had stolen a real psychologist's accreditation and was posing as her on this online platform,"she said.
"I decided to try and reach out to someone to help to kind of put me back on a path."
"Her profile seemed to match what I was looking for … someone that specialised in neurodiverse psychology,"Sophie said.
"This was where it was a little bit weird, because when [the psychologist] logged on, it was audio only,"Sophie said.
"Breathing exercises, replacing negative thoughts with positive ones."
"I waited for up to, like, half an hour, and then I was like, 'I don't think she's coming',"she said.
"I kind of was just feeling like I didn't matter to them and like no one out there was going to help me,"Sophie said.
"My immediate reaction was very distressed and overwhelmed,"Ms Bedford-Dyer said.
"She's obtained money by deception, created false documents, stolen identities, and treated vulnerable people without any basis to do so,"Magistrate Michael Wighton said.
"It's putting a lot of trust in someone else. It's hoping that they're competent and that they're ethically guided, and that they have the most appropriate training to support you."
"I was desperate when I was coming to services. I don't know much about her story, but maybe she was just as desperate as me,"Sophie said.