18-25 elementas Young Adult Coaching

Helping young adults move from uncertainty to opportunity with confidence, courage, compassion and clarity.

Is your son or daughter or young adult feeling a little lost?

Coaching that helps young adults understand themselves , recognise their strengths and build the inner skills that support success at work and in life.

Awareness and Compassion

Learning to pause. Quieten your mind, to listen, reflect and understand yourself.

Through mindfulness and compassionate coaching, young adults learn to notice their thoughts, emotions, strengths, values and patterns of behaviour. They become more aware of both helpful and unhelpful thinking habits, including harsh self-criticism and self-doubt. As they learn to pause rather than react, they often feel calmer, think more clearly and focus on what matters most.

Mindful self-compassion helps protect your energy, build resilience and respond to life’s challenges with greater confidence and clarity. It supports a kinder, more resilient relationship with yourself.

Self-compassion is powerful self-care: learning to respond to setbacks, mistakes and uncertainty without becoming overwhelmed by self-criticism.

elementas young adult coaching combines career and life coaching, mentoring, mindfulness and compassionate self-leadership to help young adults build confidence, resilience and practical life skills.

It is a personalised coaching experience that helps you understand yourself more deeply, recognise your strengths and develop the inner compass to navigate work and life with greater confidence, clarity and self-belief. While coaching can support emotional wellbeing, it is not therapy, counselling or traditional careers advice

Who is it for?

Young Adult Coaching is designed for people aged 18 to 25 who may be:

• Unsure about their next step
• Leaving one space to inhabit another– home, college, university or an apprenticeship
• Looking for work or preparing for interviews
• Starting their first role
• Feeling naturally anxious or lacking confidence
• Managing change or uncertainty
• Wanting greater independence
• Looking to discover their strengths, values and purpose

Together we can explore and build Your

• Confidence and self-belief
• Career direction and life choices
• Strengths and personal values
• Support in life’s natural anxiety, stress, mental wellbeing and setbacks
• Mindfulness and emotional resilience
• Finding a positive inner voice
• Ways to connect and communicate with professional confidence (phone, video calls and WhatsApp)
• Combining AI with your emotional intelligence
• CV’s, interview preparation and workplace skills
• Healthy boundaries and relationships
• Sustainable wellness habits for adult life

elementas inner compass framework

At the heart of elementas Young Adult Coaching is the inner compass framework, an evidence-informed approach that helps young adults tune in develop the confidence, resilience and self-awareness to flourish in work, relationships and life.

Confidence

Building courage through action.

Young adults are supported to make decisions, have important conversations, apply for opportunities, practise interviews and take realistic steps forward.

Connection

Strengthening relationships and belonging.

Developing communication skills, healthy boundaries, empathy, teamwork and the confidence to ask for support when needed.

Direction

Exploring values, purpose and future possibilities.

Whether the next step is work, university, an apprenticeship, a gap year or something still emerging, coaching helps young adults make thoughtful choices that feel right for them.

Courage

Taking brave steps, even when it feels uncertain.

Trying something new rarely feels comfortable. Courage is built through small, repeated acts, applying for a role, starting a difficult conversation, moving away from home or speaking up in a group. Coaching helps young adults recognise their own bravery and take the next step even without having it all figured out.

Compassion

Meeting setbacks and mistakes with kindness, not criticism.

Growing up comes with getting things wrong, missing out, and comparing yourself to others. Self-compassion helps young adults respond to these moments without spiralling into self-criticism, learning that being kind to yourself is not the same as letting yourself off the hook. It builds the resilience to try again. We will look at any challenges or gaps in your CV and plan ways to make things better.

Clarity

Cutting through the noise to see what actually matters.

Between social media, family expectations and everyone else’s opinions, it is easy to lose sight of your own priorities. Clarity is about slowing down enough to separate what genuinely matters to you from the noise, so decisions about work, study and life feel like your own.

Why this approach matters

Preparing for adulthood is about more than qualifications or career choices. Lasting confidence grows from self-awareness, emotional resilience and compassionate self-leadership.

Alongside practical skills, young adults benefit from learning how to manage emotions, communicate well, respond to setbacks and trust themselves. These are lifelong skills that support wellbeing, relationships, learning and future careers.

The Inner Compass Framework draws on research into mindfulness, self-compassion and compassionate leadership, including the work of Professor Kristin Neff, Professor Karen Bluth and Tzortzaki. It is combined with over 30 years of experience in coaching, business, mentoring, education, employer engagement and personal development.

For parents and those supporting a young adult

Watching a young adult struggle with confidence, motivation or uncertainty can be difficult. It is not always easy to know when to encourage, when to step back or how best to help.

Coaching provides an independent, supportive space where young adults can explore their options, build confidence and make their own decisions. The aim is not to tell them what to do, but to help them discover who they are, what matters to them and move forward with confidence, compassion and purpose.

Coaching options

The elementas Inner Compass Programme – Starter £400

• Discovery Call (30 minutes) A chance to discuss your needs and see if coaching is the right fit.
• Getting to Know You & Goal Planning (90-mins)
• Three Personal Coaching Sessions (60 mins each)
• Unique resources for personal use
• Total Cost for Starter Programme £400

Designed to help you develop your Inner Compass for Life and Work. Additional coaching sessions are available if further support is needed.

Coaching Support

Finding My Direction
Exploring strengths, values, interests and realistic next steps.

Career Launch
Preparing for applications, interviews and the transition into work with practical guidance and confidence-building.

Confidence & Life Coaching
Building self-belief, resilience, independence and everyday life skills.

The elementas Inner Compass Plus Programme- Plus £685

First 100 Days
Support and mentoring as you settle into a new job, apprenticeship or placement.

• Discovery Call (30 minutes) A chance to discuss your needs and see if coaching is the right fit.
• Getting to Know You & Goal Planning (90-mins)
• Four Personal Coaching Sessions (60 mins each)
• 1 Personal Coaching Sessions (90 mins )
• Unique resources for personal use
• Flexible 30 minutes additional to sessions to be used where needed for specific areas e.g. wellbeing, CV co-working support, or helping you in the early days of a new job
• Total Cost for Plus Programme £685

Designed for a longer journey where you may need additional coaching and time and support. As well as getting in touch with your Inner Compass for Life and Work, we will handle anxiety, and build your wellness. Additional coaching sessions are available if further support is needed.

Frequently Asked Questions

Register Your interest

Whether you’re a young adult or someone supporting one, I’d be delighted to hear from you. Get in touch to arrange a discovery call or discuss whether coaching is the right next step. Call, email or WhatsApp Tel No: 07715814833 .

About Lou

Lou Booth MSc is the founder of elementas Coaching & Consulting, with over 30 years’ experience in coaching, mentoring, business, education and employer engagement, helping people build confidence, resilience and navigate life’s important transitions.

Her evidence-informed approach combines mindfulness, compassionate self-leadership and practical coaching to help young adults develop their Inner Compass for Life and Work building confidence, self-awareness and resilience as they navigate work, study and adult life.

An experienced coach, mentor and educator, Lou has worked across business, education, museums, the public and voluntary sectors. She has mentored young people, designed education and research programmes for UK museums, volunteered with young people in Bolivia and Mongolia, and contributed to four international Erasmus+ projects exploring wellbeing, resilience and non-formal learning.

Lou holds an MSc in Studies in Mindfulness from the University of Aberdeen, where her research explored Mindful Self-Compassion as a coaching approach for developing self-leadership and resilience. She is also a Mindful Self-Compassion Teacher in training, an ILM Level 7 Executive Coach, an EMCC Member and a Chartered Marketer.

Inspired by years of working with both young people and employers, Lou created elementas Young Adult Coaching to help bridge the gap between education, employment and adulthood, supporting young adults to develop confidence, self-awareness and resilience as they take their next steps.

Helping young adults move from uncertainty to opportunity with confidence, courage, compassion and clarity.

Lou Booth MSc
Founder, elementas Coaching & Consulting
MSc Studies in Mindfulness | BA (Hons Management & Marketing| Chartered Marketer | EMCC Member | Mindful Self-Compassion Teacher | ILM Coaching Level 7

Tel No: 07715814833

Email: lou@elementas.co.uk
Website: www.elementascoaching.com

Evidence base

Bluth, K., Campo, R. A., Futch, W. S., & Gaylord, S. A. 2016.

Bluth, K., & Eisenlohr-Moul, T. A. 2017.

Neff, K. D. 2003. Self-Compassion: An Alternative Conceptualization of a Healthy Attitude Toward Oneself.

Neff, K. D., & McGehee, P. 2010. Self-Compassion and Psychological Resilience Among Adolescents and Young Adults.

Tzortzaki, A. M. 2019. Compassionate Leadership: A Framework for Leadership Education and Practice.