Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP)
Regulate Stress and Anxiety Through Sound
Does your child experience uncontrollable anxiety, difficulties sleeping, ADHD, ASD, trauma or sensory sensitivities?
The Safe and Sound Protocol can help.
The Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) is an evidence-based therapeutic acoustic program created by Dr. Stephen Porges and is designed to reset the nervous system and return it to safety. The SSP is designed to work with other therapeutic approaches and modalities, with demonstrated benefits for individuals with trauma, anxiety, sensory processing differences, ADHD, ASD and more.
What is the Safe and Sound Protocol?
Five hours of music. Long lasting impact.
Feel Better
Feel more: safe, calm, resilient
Feel less: irritable, anxious, overwhelmed
Think Better
Think more: clearly, attentively, creatively
Think less: rigidly, disorganized, distractible
Connect Better
​Connect more: openly, genuinely, wholly
Connect less: guardedly, distantly, oppositionally
Who Can Benefit from Safe and Sound Protocol?
SSP is a music-based intervention that can address dysregulation caused by Sensory Processing Disorders, anxiety disorders, post-traumatic stress disorders, sleep disorders, Autism Spectrum Disorders, misophonia, and other factors that cause an overactive or underactive emotional state. By reducing auditory sensitivities and improving the ability to process human speech, the goal of SSP is to calm the autonomic nervous system so that the child or adult can become more social, engaged, and responsive to their own emotional needs. Other benefits may include improved digestion, improved sleep, and improved vocal tone.
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The Safe and Sound Protocol is a great way to help children and teens move through major transitions (such as staring school, moving, going on vacation) and prepare for preparation in other therapeutic interventions.
What is involved?
The SSP program uses algorithmically filtered music focused on the frequency range of the human voice that alters the way sounds are interpreted. It interrupts chronic states of nervous system defense by stimulating the neural networks associated with listening. This ushers the nervous system out of a defensive (fight, flight or freeze) state and into a socially engaged (ventral vagal) state and involves;
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There are three phases to the program.
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CONNECT -unfiltered and intended to acclimate you or your loved one to the playlist and the pattern of daily therapeutic listening.
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CORE - This is the therapeutic portion of the listening program. The same playlists are now filtered music designed to stimulate the middle ear muscle and conduct vibration through the skull.
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BALANCE - This final phase of your SSP program will help you continue to stabilize and maintain a sense of calm and grounding, and further integrate the benefits
of SSP Core.​​
Each 5 hour phase consists of listening to music played from an app on your iPhone or Android through special earphones. It;
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requires five hours of listening commitment
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includes 3 unique pathways for customization
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delivered in person or remotely
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access to app
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reassessment's and reviews.