This new and innovative therapy is evidence-based and designed to reduce sound sensitivities, improve auditory processing, behavioural state regulation, and social engagement behaviours. It provides us with another portal into the nervous system to build a foundation for awareness, embodiment, and resilience.
The SSP is a non-invasive, non-medical therapy. By listening to specifically filtered music or sounds, it delivers the frequencies of a melodic human voice. Based on the Polyvagal Theory, the SSP is meant to shift the autonomic nervous system out of a chronic state of defense and into a state of social engagement through acoustic vagal nerve stimulation. Some commonly reported positive responses to the SSP therapy are:
Easier and more spontaneous social connection
Better emotional control
Improved access to executive functions and higher cognitive abilities
You may also see improvements to your overall health such as:
A greater focus and attention span
Improved learning
Enhanced language skills (expressive and receptive)
Enhanced sleep
A reduction in pain levels
Lower anxiety
Better regulation of physiological state
Better results in other therapies you are provided
Throughout my career I can say with confidence that I feel more hopeful than ever with a combined influence of psychotherapy, somatic involvement, and the healing influence of the Safe and Sound Protocol © that healing is within reach!