Is kids life coaching the same as adult coaching?

Did you know that your child’s brain will only be fully developed by the age of 25! This is why our play based coaching programme is suitable for toddlers to teens! We understand developmental psychology and we use developmentally appropriate tools and activities that children are easily able to understand, apply and internalise. Children tend to live very much in the moment and our concrete activities and measurable short-term progress is something that feels more tangible and relevant to them.

 Currently there are many certified adult life coaches who choose to work with children by applying techniques that were originally developed for the adult psyche and are not suitable for getting the best out of the younger mind. We train a lot of those adult coaches when they realise that they are passionate about children but their original adult life coach training doesn’t get results with children.

We can proudly say that we have been leading the kids life coaching space since 2003, because our founder, Zelna who developed the programmes has an early career background as a special needs teacher, a Masters Degree in Clinical Child Psychology and is undergoing her Doctorate in Psychiatry at Oxford University. After her own extensive research she realised that there was no life coaching model that was suitable for children. So she took the best parts of well established, researched and respected psychological and scientific theories and created a programme over two decades ago that children can easily understand and apply.

All of our certified Kids Life Studio® coaches have also undergone extensive training and research into the Psychology of Childhood and have a solid foundation of knowledge that relates specifically to how children think, learn, act and behave.