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Her colleague at the agency, Stephanie Welch, added that most mental health professionals are female, which makes it even harder for some men to feel welcome in a therapist’s office.

"Technology like this could make all the difference, but it's important that the capacity of community therapists is boosted to keep up with demand, as there is already a long wait for help."

The sports massage therapist is among half a dozen women who shared their distressing, and often bizarre, experiences with one of Scotland's most prolific romance fraudsters in new BBC Disclosure podcast: Matched with a Predator.

“My thought was, who doesn’t need a therapist during the holidays?”

There’s a difference between exposing weird, dark stuff about yourself and doing something more confessional, like the stand-up version of what you’d say to a therapist.