About Me

Q was named Quentin Francis St.Clair-Burton and has spent a long time working out what parts of his name to use.

Quentin St Clair

The part of his name that was Quentin St Clair spent a lot of time struggling in the IT industry trying to live up to 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 and shared his life with were. It did enable him to do a lot of lovely things though.

 

That part that learnt how to run projects and a business has a small company called Jumping Joint setup in Bristol. It has also helped him in his ongoing management work for a couple of charities. It encompasses all this therapeutic and musical work, occasionally at the same time. The part that was a successful manager now is a coach, psychotherapeutic counsellor and Imago Relationship therapist working in private practice and on various charitable or community projects including Help! Counselling which provides low-cost counselling and therapy for children and young adults up to the age of 25, a music mental health charity called Mind Your Music both based in Bristol

 

That part that learnt how to run projects and a business has a small company called Jumping Joint setup in Bristol. It has also helped him in his ongoing management work for a couple of charities. It encompasses all this therapeutic and musical work, occasionally at the same time. The part that was a successful manager now is a coach, psychotherapeutic counsellor and Imago Relationship therapist working in private practice and on various charitable or community projects including Help! Counselling which provides low-cost counselling and therapy for children and young adults up to the age of 25, a music mental health charity called Mind Your Music both based in Bristol

The part that was a successful manager now is a coach, counsellor and therapist working in private practice and for two Bristol based charities; Artists Against Bullying Unite which campaigns for those affected by bullying, particularly young people and Help! Counselling which provides low cost counselling and therapy for children and young adults up to the age of 25.
“Q is a lot easier to spell.”

Creative

The creative part that was Q(uentin) (sometimes John), Burton spent a lot of time being unfulfilled. It now writes and performs its own work and is one half of art rock project The Real King(s) of Spain, as well as his own material under QJB and No Prima Donnas. For 13 years he organised promotions, mostly for singer / songwriters in Bristol and particularly at Mr Wolf’s and The Thunderbolt until the business was closed as a result of the pandemic in 2020.

As well it co-ordinated other musical projects such as “Songs of Katrina”, in 2009 which focused on the environmental impact of the natural or possibly unnatural disasters of Hurricane Katrina and in particular its affect on ordinary people, especially musicians and the poor (often the same people!). In 2019 it joined forces with the business side to put on an event called Art For Our Sake in Bristol focusing on the positive aspects of art on mental health.

It spends a lot less time being unfulfilled now. Much of the reason for this is the fantastic and inspirational people he has met through Mind Your Music, his therapeutic work and latterly his Imago training and the musicians of Bristol and now beyond via the internet.

which focuses on the environmental impact of natural or possibly unnatural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and in particular their affect on ordinary people, especially musicians and the poor (often the same people!).

It spends a lot less time being 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.

Brief Biography

Alongside my private practice work I am involved as Head of Trustees for Bristol based charity Mind Your Music as a volunteer as well as a continued commitment to Help! Counselling in Bristol as a volunteer counsellor.

Prior to all this I spent many years in the IT industry at all levels from programmer to Company Director and dealing with personal development as a line manager and training as a methodology expert, I decided in 2006 to diversify into Coaching, Counselling and Psychotherapy.

Along the way I have also been a certified Process Communication Coach and a qualified British Rowing Indoor Rowing Coach.

I am also an enthusiastic musician and singer / songwriter and ran promotions pre-pandemic under the name of SongSmith. I record my music at my own SongSmith Studios. Sounds grand however it’s wherever I lay my hat at the moment.

The most recent development has been my training as an Imago Relationship Therapist which I have completed and am now working towards my accreditation.

I am also an enthusiastic musician and used to run singer / songwriter nights under the name of SongSmith.

Qualified and experienced...

Qualifications

I have the following qualifications and training experience

I am an accredited Psychotherapeutic counsellor with UKAHPP part of the UKCP, and on a Professional Standards Authority Accredited Register through the AHPP.

I completed my Imago Relationship Therapy Training in April 2021. I am currently working towards accreditation

  • Certificate In Counselling Skills – University of West of England Sep 2007 to May 2008.
  • TA 101 Foundation – The Berne Institute Oct 2007 to July 2008 – Passed.
  • Certificate in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Oct 08 to March 2009 The Berne Institute.
  • An introduction to CBT designed for practitioners and trainees in counselling and psychotherapy who wish to integrate theory and methodology of Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy into their existing resources.
  • National Association for the Children Of Alcoholucs Induction (NACOA Bristol) Sep – Nov 2007

Additional

Courses and Workshops:

• TA Approaches to Brief Therapy November 2007
• Care and love in the therapeutic relationship (NACOA) March 2008
• Celebrating the Vitality of Relationships March 2008
• How Do You Know You Are In Attachment March 2008
• Towards a Healthy Relationship In Food March 2008
• Physis and Gnosis – The Essence of Vitality in Relationships 2008

• We Are What We Wear March 2008
• All Take and No Give March 2008
• Redecision Therapy Workshop April 2008
• Process Group Therapy Training Marathon June 2008
• Healing History with TA and Family Constellations October 2008
• Working With Borderline Personality Disorder December 2008
• Redecision Therapy Workshop April 2009
• Everything You Wanted To Know About Relational TA June 2009
• Process Communication Model Coaching, March and April 2010

So how can I help?

For more information or an initial session for private therapy please contact me.
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