Safe and Sound Protocol
The Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) is an opportunity to reset your Autonomic Nervous System through a listening program that utilizes specially filtered music to stimulate the vagus nerve through the middle ear muscle. This program is based on Stephen Porges’ Polyvagal Theory and decades of research on the autonomic nervous system.
Recognizing Nervous System Dysregulation
The ideal functioning of our Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) is one in which we experience flexibility and relative ease switching between states. The different states of our ANS are all valuable, however, there is a potential to get stuck in a state that keeps us either hypervigilant, somewhat frenzied, always on the go, defensive (Sympathetic Nervous System Activation), or the opposite frozen, shut down and paralyzed (Dorsal Vagal Response). We want to be able to state shift and move towards our Ventral Vagal Response which allows us to be curious, open, available for social contact with our biological functions in their optimal daily functioning.
- Mental health: Anxiety, depression, irritability, mood swings, panic attacks, and emotional instability
- Physical health: Chronic pain, muscle tension, headaches, digestive issues, and an irregular or elevated heart rate
- Cognitive health: Difficulty concentrating, memory problems, and being easily overwhelmed
- Sleep: Difficulty falling or staying asleep, and insomnia
- Immune system: Increased susceptibility to infections and illnesses
- Other: Persistent tiredness, exaggerated responses to minor stressors, and an inability to stay calm or still
Resetting Your Nervous System
The Safe and Sound Protocol is a non-invasive way of moving a client’s nervous system toward the ventral vagal state. The music is algorithmically filtered to focus on a specific frequency range designed to tone the vagus nerve.
The effect of working with your nervous system in this way can be profound. The opportunity to passively stimulate your vagas nerve and become more resilient, feel increased safety and capacity and improve your experience in the world is here.
What to Expect
- Investment in the Safe and Sound Listening Program is $1500, this includes access to the SSP ($300) and 6, individual support sessions ($200/50 minute).
- YOU WILL NEED OVER THE EAR HEADPHONES, AS WELL AS AN ANDROID OR IPHONE FOR THE UNYTE APP.
- Access to the SSP, 5 hours of music, listened to in short segments over several weeks.
- This is an additional service provided to support our counseling work together.
- We begin with an initial assessment to determine the appropriateness of SSP as an intervention.
- An integration program designed on your symptoms, mental health, history, presenting problems and goals.
Please review the helpful information at this site, www.whatisthessp.com, to understand more about this innovative & transformative intervention.
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