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Thomas Reid

Lead tutor, Counselling Diploma with Placement

16 years in practice

  • MBACP (Accred)
  • MA Counselling

Thomas is a BACP-accredited counsellor who has supervised trainees on placement for sixteen years. He teaches the Guild's counselling diploma because online 'counsellor' certificates still skip client hours. Learners source their own supervised placement; he marks the log and the live skills. He will not claim BACP course accreditation the Guild does not hold, and he will not invent a placement we cannot host.

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What does Thomas Reid teach at The Study Guild?

Thomas leads Counselling Diploma with Placement. He teaches live, reviews recorded client work, and marks a supervised placement log the learner arranges. The Guild does not host placements and is not a BACP-accredited course provider. A pass is assessed practice plus evidenced hours. It is not registration.

What is Thomas Reid's counselling background?

Thomas holds a master's in counselling and BACP accredited membership, with sixteen years of practice and trainee supervision. He has watched people buy diplomas with no placement and then discover employers will not shortlist them. That is why the log can fail, and why the certificate names the limit in the title line, not a footnote.

Will Thomas Reid's programme lead to BACP registration?

No. BACP registration requires an accredited qualification, placement conditions and personal therapy rules that this programme does not claim to satisfy. Completing our log does not put you on that register. If registration is the destination, start from BACP's accredited course lists and compare them with us as assessed practice, not as a substitute.

Programmes Reid teaches

Starts 12 Jan 2027All levels

Counselling Diploma with Placement

Live counsellor training with a supervised placement log you arrange, without pretending the Guild is BACP-accredited or hosts the hours.

Not for: Anyone who needed a BACP- or UKCP-accredited diploma the Guild does not provide

Live hours
32h live
Duration and weekly load
16 weeks · ~7h/week
Cohort size
max 16

£499or from £83.16/mo, interest-free