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Heal Your Nervous System Through Sound & Safety
Heal Your Nervous System Through Sound & Safety
Soften Survival Responses. Restore Inner Safety. Rebuild Connection.
Soften Survival Responses. Restore Inner Safety. Rebuild Connection.
What is SSP?
Safe & Sound Protocol (SSP) is a noninvasive, sound-based therapy that helps regulate the nervous system through filtered music designed to stimulate the vagus nerve and support a felt sense of safety, calm, and connection.
Developed by Dr. Stephen Porges, SSP helps re-tune your body’s ability to shift out of survival states like fight, flight, freeze, and into regulation, presence, and connection all without needing to relive or retell your trauma.
SSP helps your body feel what safety actually feels like so you can show up differently in your relationships, with yourself & others
How Does It Work?
Your nervous system is constantly scanning the environment for cues of danger or safety, protection or connection, a process called neuroception. When you’ve experienced relational trauma, your system often gets stuck in over-functioning or collapse. SSP uses music filtered to highlight the frequencies of the human voice, which helps train the middle ear muscles to better detect safe, social cues. This activates the ventral vagus nerve, the part of your nervous system responsible for:
Calming your heart rate and breathing
Supporting digestion and immune function
Helping you connect, trust, and feel at ease with others
Creating the conditions for emotional regulation and healing
SSP speaks directly to your body’s safety system shifting your physiology from protective fight, flight, or freeze responses so your mind, body, and emotions can move toward rest & connection more easily.
Here's What The Evidence Shows:
In clinical research, 65% of participants reported a significant reduction in sound sensitivity, emotional reactivity, and social withdrawal after completing SSP
SSP has been used in more than 70 countries with 100,000+ clients, and reported to show improvements in attention, emotional regulation, and relational engagement
Strengthening vagal tone through SSP is tied to lower anxiety, better resilience to stress, and a greater sense of emotional stability
Frequently Asked Questions?
Who Would Benefit From SSP?
SSP could be a strong fit for you if you:
Live with ongoing anxiety, overwhelm, or panic
Struggle with loud environments, noise, or sensory overload
Wanting to deepen your healing but finding traditional therapy isn’t reaching your body
Are healing from emotional neglect, relational or developmental trauma
Identify as neurodivergent (ADHD, sensory processing issues, etc.)
Find yourself in patterns of caregiving, people‑pleasing, or feeling emotionally burnt out
Long to feel safer inside your body by feeling more grounded, more present
Feeling stuck in survival mode or caught in chronic burnout
Looking for more co-regulation, not just tools to self-soothe or “fix yourself”
SSP isn’t a “cure” on its own — it’s a foundation. Think of it as preparing the ground so everything else you do (talk therapy, somatic healing, mind/body practices) can go deeper and be more sustainable.
When your system is more regulated and felt safe, the rest of your healing work tends to shift more smoothly.
What Should I Expect?
The protocol includes a total of 5 hours of listening, delivered over multiple sessions
Listening is done with over-the-ear headphones, in short segments of 5–30 minutes
Sessions are paced based on your nervous system’s capacity, with guidance and support throughout the session
During listening you will be offered regulating tools and resources to support your nervous systems responses
Many clients feel subtle or noticeable shifts after just a few sessions, others experience cumulative effects over time
Can I Do SSP Listening Sessions On My Own?
Can I Do SSP Listening Sessions On My Own?
Not entirely — and that’s by design.
SSP is a powerful therapeutic tool, but it’s most effective and safest when it’s done in relationship. Because it gently activates the nervous system, it can stir up unconscious patterns related to safety, vulnerability, and connection. That’s why SSP is only offered through certified providers who can co-regulate with you, attune to your system’s needs, and create a safe container for the work. As a trauma-informed practitioner specializing in attachment healing and nervous system repair, I offer SSP in a way that’s grounded in co-regulation, pacing, and attunement. You won’t be left to figure it out alone.
Listening sessions create an opportunities for co-regulation to be experienced and re-established, something many of us didn’t get enough of in early relationships that built our level of emotional and relational safety.
Occasionally, I may advise short moments of guided, independent listening but this is always in the context of a supported and relational healing process and not something you’ll be left to navigate on your own. Safety is repaired through connection.
Is This The Right Next Step For Me?
SSP might be right for you if you often feel:
On edge, unable to relax, and easily triggered
Overwhelmed by noise, social settings, or emotional intensity
Disconnected from your body or unable to settle after stress
Frustrated that therapy helps but something still feels “held” in your body
Ready to Support Your Nervous System?
This is a gentle, trauma-informed approach that works with your body, not against it. It doesn’t replace therapy, somatic work, or deep emotional processing. What it does do is help your body access the safety required for those other therapies to work more deeply by supporting your nervous system to feel safer and more regulated.
You may not need another technique or you may need a safer experience of yourself.
If you’re longing to feel more regulated, more connected, and more you, SSP may be the next step.
Let’s explore whether it’s right for you.
When Your System Feels Safe — Your Healing Can Go Deeper
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