Safe & Sound Protocol (SSP)
“When we are in a defensive state, then we are using metabolic resources to defend. It’s not merely that we can’t be creative or loving when we’re scared; we can’t heal.”
– Dr. Stephen W. Porges,
The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe
The Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) is a five-hour therapeutic listening intervention developed by Dr. Stephen Porges as an advanced application of Polyvagal Theory. The SSP uses psychoacoustic sound healing to recalibrate the nervous system, fostering greater regulation, resilience, and connection between the brain, body, and heart.
When integrated with Biofield Tuning and Somatic Experiencing techniques using Transformative Harmonics™, this intervention not only helps individuals connect with their interoceptive cues and creates a pathway for greater regulation, it also provides a unique container for integrative trauma and attachment healing.
"What a psychotherapist can do, according to C.G. Jung, is to create a supportive environment, in which psychospiritual transformation can occur; this container can be compared to the hermetic vessel that makes alchemical processes possible… that mediates contact between the conscious ego and a higher aspect of the client.”
- Stan Grof
Recalibrating the Nervous System
The SSP is grounded in decades of research on Polyvagal Theory and the role of the vagus nerve in promoting safety, social connection, and self-healing. By utilizing sound frequencies that communicate safety to the nervous system, SSP helps the body shift out of defensive states and toward a state of homeostasis and regulation.
How Does the SSP Work?
Pre-Requisites for Advanced Application of the SSP with Paula using Somatic Experiencing, Parts Work, and Biofield Tuning
To fully benefit from the SSP, the following conditions are recommended:
Required Equipment:
SSP Playlists
The SSP offers six curated playlists to suit individual preferences.
Playlist Options:
Can I Sample the Music?
You can sample the music and explore more information about each playlist using this link:
https://integratedlistening.com/products/ssp-safe-sound-protocol/ssp-music/
More on Freely:
https://integratedlistening.com/webinar/research-spotlight-exploring-advancements-in-music-based-interventions-and-socio-cultural-change/
More on Groove:
https://integratedlistening.com/blog/a-rhythmic-journey-to-regulation-introducing-ssp-groove/
How Is Transformative Harmonics™ Integration of the SSP Different?
Transformative Harmonics™ is an advanced application of SSP that blends many models from indigenous and Western perspectives in our understanding transformative healing (Bioenergetics, Transpersonal and Jungian Psychology, Internal Family Systems, Somatic Experiencing, and Sound Healing). The courses offered through Transformative Harmonics™ are a culmination of over 30 years of experience the integrates many of these practices and perspectives in a manner that is embodied and integrative.
"Psychotherapy using holotropic states of consciousness offers many additional highly effective mechanisms of healing and personality transformation, which become available when experiential regression reaches the perinatal and transpersonal levels. Among these are actual reliving of traumatic memories from infancy, childhood, biological birth, and prenatal life, past life memories, emergence of archetypal material, experiences of cosmic unity, and others.”
- Stan Grof
Introducing The Rebirthing Ourselves Course
Course Highlights:
Who Is It For?
This program is ideal for individuals who:
How to Engage with SSP or Rebirthing Ourselves
Group Healing Circles
Visit the course page for outlines and upcoming dates.
and/or
Individual Services
Option One:
Hybrid program (6 sessions).
Option Two:
Full program (12 sessions).
Each session includes:
30 minutes of Sound Healing using SSP.
30 minutes of psychological or somatic counseling.
Price:
$200 per 60-minute session.
Sessions available remotely.
Contact us for a free 20-minute discovery session.
"Paula’s intuitive, wise, compassionate presence while listening to the SSP transformed life-inhibiting somatic, relational, and emotional narratives held by parts of myself into life-sustaining narratives. An emergent felt sense of safety and calm evolved in my personal life and my witnessing presence with others as a clinical psychologist. I unreservedly recommend that you invite her into your process while listening to the SSP."
– Gail E. Gnade, Ph.D. (Clinical Psychologist, CCTP-II, EMDR Certified)