NERVOUS SYSTEM REGULATION THROUGH MUSIC

SSP: Safe and Sound Protocol

Creating Safety Through the Autonomic Nervous System to Support Healing

Safe & Sound Protocol – Reset Your Nervous System, Reclaim Your Life

The first step toward true healing is feeling safe. If you’ve been living in a constant state of stress, overwhelm, or shutdown, your nervous system may be stuck in survival mode—keeping you disconnected, anxious, or exhausted. The Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) is a scientifically-backed method designed to retrain your nervous system, helping you shift from a state of defense to a state of connection and ease.

How It Works

The SSP uses specially filtered music to stimulate the vagus nerve, helping your brain recognize safety cues. This allows for deep nervous system regulation, repatterning chronic stress responses, and creating lasting emotional resilience.

  • Out of Fight-or-Flight? Move beyond constant anxiety, tension, and reactivity.

  • Disconnected & Shut Down? Reawaken a sense of engagement, connection, and joy.

  • Struggling with Trauma? Build a foundation for healing through regulated nervous system function.

  • What’s Included in This Program?

This tailored, high-touch program provides structured support, ensuring you integrate changes safely and effectively.

  • Personalized Intake & Protocol Planning – A custom approach for your unique needs.

  • Guided Listening & Co-Regulation – Live support to help process shifts as they happen.

  • Integration & Nervous System Education – Learn how to recognize and maintain your progress.

  • Ongoing Monitoring & Support – Regular check-ins to ensure lasting results.

Time Committment & Process:

7–10 hours minimum commitment, delivered in short listening sessions for optimal integration.

  • Fully flexible – Can be done in person or remotely, adapted to your schedule and pace.

  • A lasting investment in yourself. Clients often report profound shifts in stress resilience, emotional balance, and overall well-being.

If you’re ready to break free from nervous system dysregulation and step into a life of ease and connection, let’s begin.

Ventral Vagal:

I feel connected to the world

Sympathetic:

I need to run or fight

Dorsal Vagal:

I can’t cope. I’m collapsed and shut down

The SSP In Action:

  • The neural networks associated with listening are stimulated. This interrupts chronic states of the nervous system defense.

  • Algorithmically filtered music focused on the frequency range of the human voice is used, altering the way sounds are interpreted.

  • The nervous system is ushered out of a defensive (fight, flight or freeze) state and into a socially engaged (ventral vagal) state.

Components of the Program

  • Psychoeducation: We educate you on how your mind and body work so you can understand and participate fully in the process. This knowledge is key to lasting change and transformation.

  • Delivery and Co-Regulation: We provide a supportive and safe environment for your journey, working with you to regulate your nervous system and manage any emotional triggers that may arise.

  • Monitoring: We establish an infrastructure of support before delivery so that you can have the best outcomes. We will monitor your progress and make any necessary adjustments along the way.

  • Post-Program Support: Follow-up is essential since the effects of the process can sometimes be greater afterward. We provide continued support to ensure that you maintain your gains and achieve lasting well-being.

This is an individualized process. The experience of listening, supporting, and processing varies for each person. It is tailored to your needs, experiences, and nervous system response.

Time Commitment: We value your time and understand that this is a journey. Our minimum time commitment is between 7 to 10 hours, distributed in listening times ranging from 5 minutes to 1 hour at a time.

Flexibility: We work around your schedule and adapt to your pace. The process is not done all at once but spread out to allow for optimal integration and understanding. This can be done in person or remotely but requires working closely together. 

Investment in Yourself: This is an investment in yourself and your well-being. The time and effort put into this process typically yield profound results in your life.

This program includes the following:

  • We take a personal approach to SSP delivery. As a transformative and powerful tool, we respect the impact it can have. Especially if this is the first time you are working with us, it is important for us to understand your background, goals, challenges, etc., that you face. This will inform how the SSP is delivered. A one-hour phone call will be devoted to understanding your unique circumstances, sharing set-up information for the process, answering any questions, and setting a timeline and plan for execution.

  • Based on the initial intake call, we will develop a plan of implementation and listening. This is a fluid process and can change while experiencing the protocol. We will provide guidelines and a proposed plan and modify it as needed.

  • You will get access to the proprietary SSP protocol. This protocol is not available anywhere outside of a certified SSP practitioner. Access is only for the duration of the program.

  • You will have access to an online journal, where you will note your feelings, emotions, and physical effects as you go through the SSP protocol and the time in between listening sessions. These will be looked at and responded to with support and guidance. You will also have access to text support.

  • IDPH Coaching is integral to this process as the SSP can bring up trauma, realizations, and personal memories that can affect you. Having support is the way to process what you experience and continue the process successfully with the greatest impact and healthy integration.