One of Australia’s leading sports psychologists has revealed he’s been in to see AFL footy boss Steve Hocking to voice his concerns over clubs using “pseudo-psychologists”.

Jeff Bond, OAM, said the psychology community had become increasingly worried about the amount of unqualified people working in their industry through the vehicle of professional sport.

“It was quite recently. I was assured by Steve that the pool of money that’s being put aside by the AFL and the players' association for the mental wellbeing of athletes will only be provided to people who are properly registered,” Bond said on SEN.

“Steve confirmed that he and [CEO] Gillon McLachlan on behalf of the AFL were looking very carefully at the issue of who clubs hire and whether proper due dilligence has been undertaken.”