About Quentin St.Clair
Hi my name is Quentin (or Q) and I have spent the last few years managing change in my life to get to do the things I want to do and fulfilling my ambitions, understanding the emotions of myself and others through therapy and music and creating better and more fulfilling relationships.
Q was named Quentin Francis St.Clair-Burton and has spent a long time struggling with what parts of his name to use. Q is a lot easier to spell. The part of his name that was Quentin St.Clair spent a lot of time struggling in the IT industry living someone else’s life and dream. It was financially quite well rewarded and a lot of the time it was wasn’t very lovely even when the people he met were. It did enable him to do a lot of lovely things though.
That part that learnt how to run projects and a business now runs Project Lovely and a small musical projects company called Jumping Joint in Bristol. It also helped him in his work as a council member and trustee a couple of charities. The part that was a successful manager, now is a counsellor and therapist working in private practice and also for Bristol based charity Help! which provides low cost counselling and therapy for children and young adults up to the age of 25 as well as being involved in local pressure group Artists Against Bullying Unite.
The creative part that was Q(uentin) (sometimes John), Burton spent a lot of time being sad, depressed and unfulfilled. It now runs a recording studio and organises promotions, mostly for singer / songwriters. It composes and performs its own again after a long break. As well it provides the musical input to Project Lovely and co-ordinates other musical projects such as “Songs of Katrina”, which focuses on the environmental impact of (un)natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and in particular their affect on ordinary people, especially musicians and the poor (often the same people!) and co-heads art rock band The Real King(s) of Spain. It spends a lot less time being sad, depressed and unfulfilled now. Much of the reason for this is the fantastic and inspirational people he has met through Project Lovely, his counselling and therapy training and the musicians of Bristol.
Despite or maybe because he is busy doing things that he loves he is now a work in progress towards being happy, fulfilled and hardly struggling at all. One of the ambitions that will now be fulfilled is to do more writing and hopefully help people understand the process of change and how they can manage it better through Your Tango.
He still finds time to socialise with friends and to relax with the odd psychological crime thriller and by travelling for leisure or in pursuit of his dreams.