Who Can Benefit?
Nearly anyone and everyone!
The Safe and Sound Protocol works on everyone’s autonomic nervous system (ANS). The more attuned you are to your ANS, the more impact you’ll notice of course, but everyone’s system will benefit from SSP!
Only a few (often temporary) factors preclude one from being capable of receiving the benefits of SSP such currently in crisis or having a significant trauma background without supportive therapy or another modality of treatment.
Entire Families Benefit Best
Once your system regulates better, you can become a co-regulator for someone else. That is, your healthy regulation helps others regulate better around you. The ideal scenario is for entire families to receive SSP and then everyone is helping everyone find states of safety, calm, and ease more quickly and effectively.
Do you have to live in Denver?
You can live Anywhere!
The Safe and Sound Protocol is a brief, remotely administered intervention. You can live anywhere in the US (or beyond) and Denver Safe and Sound can help you.
Helping People Everywhere With
Social, emotional and attachment disorders
Auditory hypersensitivity
Body organization
Nervous system dysregulation
Learning, cognition and attention difficulty
Sensory processing differences
Stress-related physical conditions
The Biology of Feeling Safe: The Polyvagal Theory
Polyvagal Theory is often called the science of feeling safe.
Developed by Dr. Stephen Porges, Polyvagal Theory focuses on what is happening in the body and the nervous system, and explains how our sense of safety, or danger or threat, can impact our behavior. Through SSP this scientific framework is applied as a physiological, or “bottom-up” therapy, to help change and improve how we feel, think and connect with others.
Nourish and awaken the nervous system to feel better, think better, and connect better.
Dr. Porges Explains
The Safe and Sound Protocol creates a platform for neurogenesis and neuroplasticity. This promotes better coordination with the integration of movements, thoughts and feelings.
Key Findings
Respond effectively to life’s challenges
Controlled responsiveness and resilience
Access higher learning and cognition
Truly connect with others
Treating Misophonia, Autism, and More
Misophonia
If you suffer from Misophonia, you know how few interventions have been discovered to help. The Safe and Sound Protocol is part of your solution! Read Anna’s story of being triggered by numerous sounds to being able to eat in public without earplugs and her astonishment at the results of this five-day program.
Autism
Studies finding that children and adults with Autism can use the Safe and Sound Protocol to train their nervous system to co-regulate “via a stabilisation of the perception system (auditory and subsequently via the vagus nerves also visually, tactile, respiratory and digestive.)” Click here for access to studies and ongoing trials.
Current studies
Dr. Porges and other clinicians are currently running trials to study the effects of the Safe and Sound Protocol on various clinical challenges such as chronic pain, Prader Willi Syndrome, histories of trauma, Attention Deficit/Hyperactive Disorder, and further studies on autism. Read more here.
Three Pathways
SSP Connect
Unfiltered music designed as a slower and more gentle introduction to the SSP Core. Benefits include enhancing experiences of safety and soothing as well as insight into individual pacing of the program.
Included in the Extended Plan | Get started
SSP Core
The meat and potatoes of the program! This is the original five-hour listening protocol that helps individuals enhance self-regulation. It’s designed to reduce stress and enhance social engagement and emotional resilience.
Five-days of listening | One-two hours a day | Get started
SSP Balance
Extend and integrate the gains of the Core with the Balance protocol. Continued listening through this feature enhances calming, grounding, stabilizing experiences.
Included in the Extended Plan | Get started
What People Are Saying
Since doing SSP, I am much less sensitive to my children’s noise. It is incredible how much it has helped my sound sensitivity.
— Heidi, Littleton CO
My focus at work has never been better!
— Jeannette, Denver CO
(Six weeks later) I keep seeing changes. I become calm much more easily after getting upset. In fact, my recent trip home went as well as it did, I think, because of the SSP.
— Margaret, Littleton CO
