Quinn
Barclay
Mosaner
I'm Quinn — PSYCH-K® practitioner, Red Tent facilitator, artist, sales consultant, writer, people-watcher, stylist, thrifter, word nerd, scrabble enthusiast.
I’m also someone who has spent a significant portion of her life figuring out which parts of herself were actually hers.
That's not a poetic way of saying I went on a journey. I mean it literally. There was a period where I had to sit with the uncomfortable reality that much of what I believed about myself — what I wanted, what I valued, how I related to people, what I thought I deserved — had been shaped by experiences and relationships I hadn't chosen and hadn't examined. I had to take it all apart. Slowly. Honestly. Often in the dark.
What came out the other side wasn't a better version of who I was before. It was something closer to an original version. Authentic. Still being discovered. Still evolving. But genuinely mine.
"The most disorienting thing I ever did was stop assuming I knew who I was… and start digging through the layers to find what was actually true."
I came to PSYCH-K® the way most people do — after hitting roadblock after roadblock.
I'm deeply reflective by nature - I need to know why. I did years of therapy. I read, listened, studied. Psychology, neuroscience, attachment theory, human design… Anything I could get my hands on. I became someone who could articulate her patterns with clarity and I made progress, for sure. And yet, the core patterns continued.
That gap — between knowing and shifting — is where PSYCH-K® lives. When I found it, I committed to it fully. Not a session here and there. Nine months, every other week, thousands of dollars, showing up even when I didn't want to. Outside of sessions I journaled, reflected, asked hard questions of myself, and sat with whatever came up. I did the work because I was relentless about getting myself out of a darkness I'd been in long enough.
That relentlessness — toward myself, for myself — is what eventually moved things. Not insight alone. Not willpower. Something deeper becoming available once the subconscious beliefs holding everything in place were actually changed.
I trained as a practitioner because I wanted to offer something I know works. Not from a course manual. From real life experience.
What is art?
How do you define an artist?
For years, I didn’t see myself as an artist because I didn’t draw or paint or sketch.
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I’ve come to realise, I had my own preconceived ideas of what an artist ‘should’ look like.
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These days, I revel in my various forms of artistry and embrace the title of artist.
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If my creations resonate, delightful. The joy is in the process, sharing in any form is simply a bonus.
Quinn ~ A chosen name for a human that actively chooses her life.
A woman who has done the work to feel so comfortable in her own skin that the authenticity of it is magnetic.
the rest of it ~
— Red Tent circles — I participate and facilitate spaces for women to gather, speak honestly, and be witnessed without agenda. That work comes from the same place as everything else I do - belief that most of us are carrying more than we need to, and that being genuinely seen is one of the most transformative things available to us.
— I make things — art, objects, writing. Creativity is how I stay connected to something larger than the practical. There's a shop here if something calls to you.
— I'm committed to intentionality as a practice — in fashion/personal style, in language, in how we move through the world. I question the word "should" every time it appears in my own thinking. Where does it come from? Does it belong there? I find that question takes you somewhere interesting almost every time.
— I'm based in Christchurch, New Zealand — though I'm something of a cultural melting pot. Half-Brazilian, raised in NZ — and spent five years in the US somewhere in between all between. I've moved enough times to know that home is less about a place and more about how you inhabit yourself. Wherever you go, there you are.
PSYCH-K® sessions are either in person and online.
"I'm not someone who was always inherently grounded or sure of myself. I didn’t get here from a comfortable place. I found it because I needed it. That's the only reason I trust it enough to offer it to you. Whether that be in collage art-form, writing, or PSYCH-K® sessions"
If something here resonated — a word, a feeling, a quiet recognition — I'd love to hear from you!