The Study Guild

Who teaches

Practitioners, not presenters

Every Study Guild programme is led by a practising professional with credentials you can verify — clinicians, accountants, solicitors and coaches.

Pre-launch note. Some profiles below are placeholders while tutor contracts are finalised. They are labelled individually and excluded from search indexes. We would rather show you an honest placeholder than a fictional expert.

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Amira Hassan

Lead tutor, Massage Practice and Licensing

  • ITEC Level 3 Massage
  • Local special-treatments licence holder

Massage practitioner who teaches observed practice and how UK councils license special treatments, without issuing a licence we do not hold.

Teaches 1 programme

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Anita Sharma

Lead tutor, Counselling Skills

  • MBACP
  • PGDip Counselling

BACP-registered counsellor who teaches skills for managers and coaches, and who will fail anyone using the course as a back door into being a counsellor.

Teaches 1 programme

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Ben Walker

Lead tutor, Workplace Mental Health First-Contact Training

  • CPsychol
  • HSE-aligned workplace stress practice

Occupational psychologist who teaches workplace mental-health first contact, and who will not pass off Guild training as MHFA England instructor licensing.

Teaches 1 programme

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Daniel Mercer

Lead tutor, AI for Legal Practice

  • Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales
  • LLB, LPC
  • Certified Information Privacy Professional

Solicitor and former legal technology lead who advises UK law firms on using AI within SRA obligations, client confidentiality and privilege.

Teaches 1 programme

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David Chen

Lead tutor, Hypnotherapy Skills

  • HPD
  • PCC

Hypnotherapist who has practised for fourteen years and assesses observed sessions, without pretending a short course is a CNHC-approved education pathway.

Teaches 1 programme

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Dr Amara Okafor

Lead tutor, Menopause & Women's Health

  • MBChB
  • MRCGP
  • British Menopause Society Advanced Certificate

GP and menopause specialist who has led women's health services in the NHS for over a decade and now trains coaches in evidence-based menopause support.

Teaches 1 programme

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Dr Nadia Hassan

Lead tutor, Sleep & Nutrition

  • PhD Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience
  • RNutr

Registered nutritionist and sleep researcher who translates clinical sleep science into practical coaching methods for non-clinical practitioners.

Teaches 1 programme

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Dr Priya Raman

Lead tutor, Psychology & Therapeutic Skills

  • DClinPsy
  • CPsychol
  • BABCP Accredited CBT Therapist

Chartered psychologist and BABCP-accredited CBT therapist who has supervised trainee therapists in NHS Talking Therapies services for eight years.

Teaches 1 programme

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Francesca Rossi

Lead tutor, Relationship Coaching

  • PCC
  • Relational coaching practice

Relationship coach who works with couples on communication and agreements, and who treats the therapy boundary as an assessed competency, not a disclaimer.

Teaches 1 programme

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Helen Croft

Lead tutor, Career Coaching

  • PCC
  • MCIPD

ICF-credentialled career coach who spent a decade in HR before moving into private practice, and now assesses recorded career-coaching sessions.

Teaches 1 programme

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James Holt

Lead tutor, Personal Training Practitioner

  • CIMSPA PT practitioner member
  • Level 3 Personal Training

Personal trainer who marks live coaching of movement, and who will not print CIMSPA endorsement on a Guild certificate the body has not granted.

Teaches 1 programme

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James Whitfield

Lead tutor, AI for Professional Services

  • FCA
  • BSc Mathematics

Chartered accountant and former practice partner who helps UK firms adopt AI without breaching client confidentiality or professional standards.

Teaches 1 programme

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Julia Hart

Lead tutor, Interior Design Practice

  • BA Interior Design
  • BIID member

Interior designer who has run a UK practice for sixteen years and critiques live projects, because a mood-board diploma is not how rooms get built.

Teaches 1 programme

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Kate Merrick

Lead tutor, Nutrition Coaching

  • MSc Human Nutrition
  • PCC

Nutrition coach with an MSc in human nutrition who teaches healthy-eating support inside coaching scope, and who will not let graduates play dietitian.

Teaches 1 programme

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Leila Okonkwo

Lead tutor, ADHD Coaching

  • PCC
  • ADHD coaching supervision

ADHD coach who has worked with diagnosed adults for nine years and assesses coaching recordings for scope, structure and referral — not diagnosis.

Teaches 1 programme

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Marcus Vale

Lead tutor, Mindfulness Facilitation

  • MBSR teacher training
  • PCC

Mindfulness teacher who trained in MBSR and has run workplace cohorts for twelve years, and who will not call a weekend certificate teacher training.

Teaches 1 programme

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Miriam Cole

Lead tutor, Dietetics Career Preparation

  • RD
  • BSc Dietetics

HCPC-registered dietitian who teaches the map to a dietetics degree, and who will fail anyone using a short course as a protected title.

Teaches 1 programme

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Nicolas Reeves

Lead tutor, Digital Marketing

  • CIM Diploma in Professional Marketing
  • Google Ads certified

Digital marketer who has run campaigns for UK professional-service firms for thirteen years, and who marks live campaigns rather than module quizzes.

Teaches 1 programme

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Nina Okada

Lead tutor, Mindfulness Teacher Training

  • MBSR teacher training
  • Eight-week MBSR as participant and teacher

MBSR teacher who marks observed eight-week teaching, and who will not print BAMBA-registered teacher status on a Guild certificate.

Teaches 1 programme

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Oliver Grant

Lead tutor, Hypnotherapy Register Pathway

  • CNHC-registered hypnotherapist
  • Hypnotherapy Practitioner Diploma

CNHC-registered hypnotherapist who marks a longer observed case log, and who will not claim the Guild is a CNHC education provider.

Teaches 1 programme

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Owen Bright

Lead tutor, Workplace Wellbeing

  • MCIPD
  • PCC

CIPD-chartered people professional who designs workplace wellbeing programmes in UK organisations, starting from job design rather than gratitude journals.

Teaches 1 programme

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Sarah Lindqvist

Lead tutor, Coaching

  • PCC
  • EMCC Senior Practitioner
  • MSc Organisational Psychology

ICF Professional Certified Coach with 3,000 logged coaching hours who has built and sold two coaching practices and now trains new coaches in the UK.

Teaches 1 programme

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Sarah Okeke

Lead tutor, SEND Practice for School Staff

  • QTS
  • NASENCO

Former school SENCO who teaches SEND practice for existing school staff, and who will not print QTS or the NPQ SENCO on a Guild certificate.

Teaches 1 programme

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Thomas Reid

Lead tutor, Counselling Diploma with Placement

  • MBACP
  • MA Counselling

BACP-registered counsellor who marks placement logs learners arrange themselves, and who will not pretend the Guild hosts BACP-accredited training.

Teaches 1 programme

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Tom Beresford

Lead tutor, Freelance & Creative Business

  • Member, Professional Copywriters' Network
  • BA English Literature

Freelance copywriter of fourteen years who bills six figures from a one-person business and teaches the commercial side of freelancing honestly.

Teaches 1 programme