Do you find yourself:

Feeling overstimulated, and overwhelmed in noisy environments?

Having difficulty filtering out what’s not important, and struggling to focus?

Feeling emotionally out of control, or numb and tuned out from those around you?

 

The Safe and Sound Protocol 

Navigate forward with greater calm, connection, resilience and ease

 

✔ Calm the nervous system

✔ Reduce anxiety and irritability

✔ Reduce hypersensitivity to sound 

✔ Improve focus and attention 

 

 

 

If you have tried everything counselling and therapy has to offer, and nothing has worked, it could be because your nervous system is stuck in either in a fight/flight, or freeze/shutdown response.
The Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) is designed to help your body shift out of these stuck survival states and orient towards healing. Learn more here

 

What is it?

Developed by neuroscientist Dr. Stephen Porges, the SSP is a research-based listening therapy designed to calm the nervous system and allow it to detect feelings of safety. Based on Dr. Porges’ Polyvagal Theory, the SSP produces a calming effect on our brain and body. This opens space for improved healing, communication and social ease.  Click here to learn more about the SSP.

How does it work?

The SSP is a gentle approach that helps calm and re-tune the nervous system over a prescribed programme of 5 hours of listening, spaced according to what your unique brain and body needs.  The SSP involves listening to specially filtered music through headphones alongside a provider, in-person or remotely.

 

Who is it for?

Suitable for children 2 years+, young people and adults who may have:

 

What can I expect?

Depending on the package or stream that is right for you, assessment begins with an intake assessment, and targeted pre-protocol measures. We then decide upon when, where and how long to listen for. Changes in the targeted symptoms are often noticed immediately, but many times unfold gradually over the following months of listening, as your nervous system organises and integrates the new information.

 

The SSP is not designed to be permanent, or a stand-alone therapy, rather, the experience clears space for living life in a more regulated, resilient state, so that other therapies are more effective and efficient. Some listeners with more complex difficulties have found that repeating the 'Core' program within a couple of months to be most effective. Repeat listeners of the 'Core' program can do so here at a discounted rate. 

          Feel better

✔ Feel more calm and grounded

✔ Notice greater resilience

✔ Feel less overwhelm 

 

 

  Think with clarity

✔ Think more creatively

✔ Notice better focus and attention 

✔ Complete tasks more efficiently

 

 

  Connect with ease

✔ Feel more safe with others

✔ Respond with less defense

✔ Connect more openly

 

 

The Nuts and Bolts

SSP Package

Step 1, Set-Up:  
Preparatory work includes:            

  • Medical and Mental Health history
  • Any needed liaison with health professionals
  • Pre-protocol measures
  • Education work

50-minute online prep session

  • Trialling and planning regulating exercises
  • Discussion and rating of target areas
  • Revision of process and polyvagal theory
  • First listen

Step 2, Listening and coaching

After your first listen we keep in close contact to monitor and adjust amounts of the program, depending on your response to the music.

I will then offer a suggested amount of daily listening, and we continue to keep in touch around how you respond, with full, remote support available around your listening experience. 

A 30-minute video call is available to you at any point during your listening, along with a 30-minute completion call where we review, reflect and celebrate your wins. 

 

Prices as discussed on discovery call 

 

For one additional family member: $10% discount applies 
For two or more additional family members: $15% discount applies

Existing therapy clients can access the SSP with my full support for an additional $150 per month

I would love to hear from you with any questions or thoughts around how the Safe and Sound Protocol may be beneficial to you, or your child. Click here to contact me