SUSAN C. SCARTH RSMT/E UKCP/RDMP, Dip. Sup, SP(1), CMA, MCAT
Dance Movement Psychotherapist – Registered Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator (ISMETA), UKCP and ADMP UK registered private practitioner and supervisor, Certified Movement Analyst, Sensorimotor Psychotherapist, training in BodyMind Centering
E-mail: susan@movingforth.org
website: www.movingforth.org
Susan C. Scarth began her professional life as a social worker (1976) in the North East of England and has since worked with many client populations in statutory and voluntary sector roles, always maintaining a focus on mental health and well-being. She has consistently developed her interest in creative interventions and the integration of body and mind processes, bringing the expressive body into the therapeutic space. Her psychotherapy practice integrates humanistic and psychodynamic approaches with body work, movement analysis and creative activity.
Moving Forth is her private practice (www.movingforth.org) in Edinburgh, Scotland where she offers individual therapeutic work to adult survivors of trauma. This work includes addressing attachment and anxiety disorders, severe psycho-somatic conditions and chronic psycho-physical disturbances. She provides face-to-face and online clinical supervision to health practitioners and is a consultant trainer with several professional Dance Movement Therapy (DMT) programmes across Europe. She has held posts as lecturer, placement coordinator and course leader on UK university DMT training courses since 1996, and currently engaged as the Interpersonal Learning Group facilitator with MSc Music Therapy at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh.
She completed the DMT masters (MCAT) at The Laban Centre London in 1982 and in 2008 deepened this initial training with the Certificate in Movement Analysis (CMA) at the Laban/Bartenieff Institute for Movement Studies New York. Since then she has completed certification training specific to trauma and the body (Sensorimotor Psychotherapy level 1), reflective practice and creative supervision (Dip. Sup.) and is currently studying Body Mind Centering, specifically working towards the Infant Developmental Movement Educator certificate.
In 2016 she completed a 6-year term as President of the European Association Dance Movement Therapy (EADMT) and has retained the role of Coordinator of EADMT Education and Training standards working group. Her engagement in the management and development of the DMT profession follows several years on the UK professional Association (ADMP UK) Council, including as Chairperson.