Celebrity psychologist Heffernan regrets ‘living lie’ of fake PhD

A celebrity psychologist has said he regrets misleading people by using a fake PhD to lecture, provide counselling services, and appear on radio shows as a “doctor.”

Fergus Heffernan was speaking publicly for the first time since a newspaper investigation, in 2017, revealed that his doctoral qualification was fake, and that he had falsely claimed to be a visiting professor at a number of universities.