I have known Marsha for 16 years. During this time she has carried out work for Kids Company offering both therapeutic and music-based interventions. Marsha is immensely talented, she has great analytic and practical skills. She is extremely facilitating and can work with children who present with complex needs. I have no hesitation in recommending her.
The best bit about coming to school is doing music with Marsha.
I want to do this every day!
I want to stay here. It would be more comfy than sleeping in a bed.
I have known Marsha for several years in a professional capacity through the Clinic for Dissociative Studies. In her work, she is a creative and a talented person with many special qualities. She is analytic, reflective, and communicates verbally and non-verbally through her music that reaches all ages at many levels both individually and in a group setting. She also has the gifted quality of attuning herself to meet the needs of young people with complex needs. She is always motivated and works with great vigour using all her skills, which are expressed with emotion, sensitivity, as well as humour at the appropriate times.
Marsha and Tony have run lunchtime music sessions with two different groups over the course of this year and with both groups, their work concluded with the performance of an original song in assembly. I have to say that I was blown away by both of these performances! The songs were meaningful as well as catchy and seeing the children perform with such confidence was joyful – one of the songs was led by two young girls who I had no idea had such lovely voices in them! All credit to Marsha and Tony for drawing that confidence and talent out of them whilst performing songs with such positive themes.
Music expresses our longings, our sorrows, our sadnesses and our hopes. Rarely does it nudge us into helping us to change ways of being that can enhance our experience and enable us to understand ourselves more deeply. Marsha Swanson’s work does just that. She brings emotional literacy to songs while warming our hearts.
It cheers me up and makes me happy.
I employed Marsha to write the lyrics for my latest album for pre-schoolers for use in my classes. Marsha was the consummate professional. She understood what was being asked of her and was able to effortlessly deliver imaginative and age-appropriate lyrics to fit each brief that I gave her. Marsha is passionate, highly motivated and is deeply committed to giving children a voice.
I can’t believe it, this song is my life!
I supervised Marsha’s work with an extremely disturbed, previously untreatable adolescent girl on a weekly basis for a period of 5 years. She is talented, reliable, competent and has a balanced combination of sensitivity and good judgment that do seem to facilitate this work very well.
When I just looked at the words I didn’t remember it, but when I heard the music I knew it all!