Adding ‘Category’ to Page URL

It is a page what you have, categories are for posts (by default) and it looks like you have no categories except ‘uncategorised’ and it’s empty.

Posts Categories Screen

You can make a page a child of another page, but you need to create this ‘guides’ page first.
https://wordpress.org/support/article/pages/#to-create-a-subpage
I don’t recommend trying to change permalinks structure, it will affect the whole site.

Using Permalinks