Blackburn Mentoring works with clients in Salt Lake City and along the Wasatch Front by video. Our team is in Los Angeles, and clients in neighborhoods like Sugar House and the Avenues, suburbs like Holladay and Cottonwood Heights, and up in Park City meet a dedicated mentor online each week, scheduled in Mountain time. Many are young adults and early-career professionals; we also work with high school students and their parents.
A young, fast-moving region
Utah has one of the youngest populations in the country, and the Salt Lake area has grown quickly, with a technology corridor south of the city often called Silicon Slopes. Many people here marry, start careers and take on big responsibilities earlier than their peers on the coasts.
That pace has real upside. It can also leave a 23-year-old with a demanding job, a mortgage or a growing family, and no one outside the family to think things through with. That is a lot of what our Utah clients use mentoring for.
What young adults here ask for help with
- Settling into a first career-track job, or deciding to leave one. See career change.
- Building a household budget that holds up when costs rise.
- Finishing a degree that was paused for work, service or family.
- Making time for health and fitness alongside work and family life.
- Getting organized enough to stop feeling behind.
High school students and families
Families with larger households are common along the Wasatch Front, and parents are often stretched across several kids’ schedules at once. A mentor gives one student focused weekly attention: goals they choose, steps for the coming week, and short check-ins between sessions. The parent joins the intro call, helps agree the goals and receives regular progress updates.
Students here attend strong public high schools, charter schools and independent schools, and many are juggling sports, church and community commitments, part-time jobs and college plans at once.
Seasons, snow and the school year
Winter in Salt Lake brings ski season and, on some days, valley inversions that keep people indoors. Video sessions make weather irrelevant: no canyon drive, no icy roads. For students who ski or compete, sessions can move around a race or travel schedule without breaking the weekly rhythm.
Coming back after time away
Many young adults in Utah step away from school or work for a period of service, travel or family responsibility and then come back to a world that kept moving. Re-entry can be harder than expected: picking a major again, finding work, managing money, and rebuilding a routine without the structure that framed the time away. A mentor helps break the return into steps: what to do this week, this month and this semester. The same approach fits anyone coming back from a gap year or a pause; see gap year mentoring.
Scheduling with a Los Angeles team
Salt Lake City is on Mountain time, one hour ahead of Los Angeles all year. A 4 pm session after school is 3 pm for the mentor; a 7 pm session for a working client is 6 pm in California. Early mornings and weekends are available too. We schedule in your local time. Clients who work early shifts often prefer a session before the workday starts, while students tend to choose late afternoon.
Where a mentor helps
A mentor is not a tutor, therapist or admissions counselor. It is a consistent, practical guide who helps you do what you set out to do. Young adults usually start with young adult mentoring and professionals with our page for professionals. Parents of teens can read mentoring for high school students. The full online format is explained on our online mentoring page.
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Common questions
Do you work with clients in Park City?
Yes, by video. Clients anywhere in Utah work with their mentor online, with sessions in Mountain time.
I am in my twenties with a family already. Is mentoring for me?
Yes. Many of our clients are balancing a career and family at a young age and want help with planning, money and priorities.
How far ahead of Los Angeles is Salt Lake City?
One hour, all year. That makes after-school, evening and early morning sessions easy to schedule.
Get started
Want to talk about what mentoring could look like for you? Call (888) 305 5422, email contact@blackburnmentoring.com or start with a short assessment. A member of our team reviews every assessment personally and sets up a free intro call.