Anita Sharma
Lead tutor, Counselling Skills
13 years in practice
- MBACP
- PGDip Counselling
Anita is a BACP-registered counsellor who has spent thirteen years in private practice and in workplace employee-assistance work. She teaches counselling skills — not counsellor training — because managers and coaches keep buying 'counsellor diplomas' that contain no placement. She marks recorded conversations against a skills rubric, and she will not sign a certificate that implies you may see clients as a counsellor.
What does Anita Sharma teach at The Study Guild?
Anita leads Counselling Skills. She teaches live, reviews recorded helping conversations, and marks listening, reflecting and stopping. The programme is for people whose existing role already involves difficult conversations. It is not a BACP-accredited counsellor diploma, and she designed it so that sentence cannot be missed.
What is Anita Sharma's counselling background?
Anita holds a postgraduate diploma in counselling and BACP membership, with thirteen years of practice including employee-assistance work. She knows what placement hours feel like, which is why she will not sell a substitute. Skills training is a real product. Counsellor training is a different, longer one.
Will Anita Sharma's programme lead to BACP registration?
No. BACP registration requires an accredited qualification, supervised placement hours and personal therapy requirements this programme does not provide. If that is the destination, start from BACP's accredited course lists. If you needed better conversations in the job you already have, this is the honest course.
Programmes Sharma teaches
Counselling Skills
Learn listening, reflecting and stopping from a BACP-registered counsellor, without a back door into being a counsellor.
Not for: Anyone who needed BACP or UKCP registration — start from those bodies' accredited lists
- Live hours
- 16h live
- Duration and weekly load
- 8 weeks · ~6h/week
- Cohort size
- max 20
£349or from £58.16/mo, interest-free