Safe & Sound Protocol (SSP)

My passion is helping people develop life skills that strengthen connections, build trust, and foster safety in relationships — both with themselves and with the world around them.  

Through balance you find connection:

• SSP is a restorative listening program designed to reset your nervous system to a state of regulation, attunement, and felt safety.  
• A flexible nervous system is more open to feeling relaxed, comfort, and connection. 
• We are designed to survive. 
• Some nervous systems can become stuck in survival mode. 
• Everything feels likes a threat, overwhelming, scary - leaving us left to fight, flight, fawn. feezed, or faint regularly. 
• Nobody needs to live in survival mode. 
• Through evidence-based filtered music designed to act as a non-invasive acoustic vagal nerve stimulator retuning the autonomic nervous system so you can feel more connected and balanced - in harmony with life.  

 The Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) is an evidence-based listening therapy designed to reduce sound sensitivities and improve auditory processing, regulation, and social engagement through filtered music. This listening therapy acts as a non-invasive, acoustic vagal nerve stimulator that retunes the autonomic nervous system to improve connection, collaboration, and resilience. The SSP involves listening to specially filtered music through headphones in partnership with a provider either in person or remotely. The music of the SSP is unlike any other. Each track has been filtered through a patented algorithm that highlights specific sound frequencies that are similar to the human voice. As you listen to the music of the SSP, these highlighted frequencies send cues of safety to retune your nervous system, which can help you feel more settled, engaged and balanced. - Unyte

Suitable for: 

• Children
• Adults

Benefits individuals with: 

• Trauma
• Anxiety
• Autism
• ADHD
• Sensory Processing Discomforts
• Chronic Pain
• Neurodivergents 

Designed to: 

• Reduce Sound Sensitivity
• Improve Auditory Processing
• Improve regulation
• Activates social engagement systems
• Can accelerate and enhance therapeutic outcomes.

Allows your nervous system to have: 

• Felt Safety
• Restful Sleep
• Eating and Digesting
• Attunement
• Control of Emotions
• Concentration
• Flexibility
• Communion
• Comfort
• Participation in Meaningful Relationships - with yourself and others

• email me and tell me your interested in SSP: jessicaturk@hiwtherapies.com
• An intake appointment is scheduled where we will discuss your unique nervous system needs and best pathway approach. 
• You purchase the headphones and download the app on your device (iOS or Android). 
• Your specific playlist will be downloaded and played through the app, and you listen wherever you feel the most comfortable. 
• We will meet virtually three times over the course of a 5-hour therapeutic playlist pathway.

• A therapeutic play list pathway typically takes 5 - 10 weeks with about 15 minutes of listening per day or every other day. 
• However, remember that every nervous system is unique. We will work together as a team to tailor the program to meet your individual needs. 

• The benefits from SSP can last weeks or months. 
• Remember you have access to SSP for 1 year! 
• You only need to meet with me when using the pathway Connect or Core.
• You can access the Balance pathway whenever you need. 
• If utilizing all 3 pathways is best for your nervous system, then we will discuss this more during your intake. 

• I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Indiana with almost 20 years of experience. I am trained and certified in Safe and Sound Protocol through Uynte.  

• Contact me today for a free consultation and let's get you started. 

Individual SSP Plan includes the following for 6 months:

• 50-minute intake + basic nervous system education 
• 30-minute session to get you set up
• 5 hour listening protocol (completed in a few weeks to months)
• 30-minute check-in session halfway through the listening protocol
• Progress monitoring/adjustments made via email communication 
• Integration recommendations as needed 
• 30-minute follow up at end of 5 hour listening program 
• Access to Balance listening program for the whole 6 months 

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Pricing Options include:

$450

paid at once, or in 2 payments

Personal ownership of over the ear headphones with a right and left speaker is required. 

You are worthy and deserving of self-care.

Individual therapy can cost $150 per session 

               = $600 per month (if you average weekly sessions)

There needs to be a family member in the house currently paying for an individual subscription in order for additional family members to receive the reduced price listed below. 

Additional Family Member subscription for 6 months:

• $300, paid at once or in 2 payments
• Includes everything listed in "What is the cost for an individual"

A family who regulates together can form a strong connection.

• Helped over 100,000 children, adolescents and adults in more than 70 countries worldwide.
• Families experience the SSP together and in support of one another. 
• Access for you to listen to the music of SSP either in person with your certified provider or remotely.
• Allows for listening from the comfort of your own home, allowing for flexibility and ease. 
• Individualized listening plans that are created in collaboration with Your provider. 

Your Role as the Listener: 

• Simply listen to the music. 
• Let your provider know of feelings or sensations, whether emotional or physical, that may arise.
• Possible engage in light activity during your listening sessions, such as stretches, breathing exercises, or drawing.
• Communication with your provider if there are issues, so they can adjust your listening plan to suit your needs.

Your Providers Role:

•  Is to guide you along your SSP journey. 
• Trained to make sure that you are ready even before you start listening to the music.
• Through collaboration will recommend an individualized listening plan that can be altered as needed. 
• Provide education, answer all your questions, and prepare you.
• Monitor your progress and make sure the program is not being completed too quickly or too slowly.  
• Help to find the right pace and conditions for the optimal listening experience for you.

If you are a parent or caregiver, you may be the primary listening partner for your child. Follow your provider’s instructions for what activities to do and how to guide your child. 

• SSP is a powerful tool used for regulating the autonomic nervous system (ANS). 
• The retunement of the ANS can happen subtle or abrupt.
• Tuning the ANS might feel uncomfortable at times, especially at the beginning.
• There might be temporary discomfort with gastrointestinal (bowel changes or gas), increase of strong emotions, auditory sensitivity, etc.
• Fluctuations within the ANS might be drastic for those with severe trauma, emotional dysregulation, psychosis, recent psychiatric hospitalizations, seizures, inner ear structural difference, and/or medical complexities. Make sure to inform your provider and sign a release of information for your provider to work together with your Primary Care Provider.

This information is regarding general health and wellness and is not intended to provide medical advice. The Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) is not an FDA-approved therapy or treatment. The FDA has not reviewed these statements or claims. We encourage you to consult with your medical provider regarding recovery from health conditions. - Unyte

• The SSP was designed and patented by the author of, Polyvagal Theory: the Science of Feeling Safe Developed by world-renowned researcher and Unyte’s Chief Scientific Advisor, Dr. Stephen Porges, Polyvagal Theory focuses on what is happening in the with our autonomic nervous system, and explains how our sense of safety, danger or life-threat can impact our behavior.  Understanding Polyvagal Theory gives us a scientific framework that can be applied through physiological, or “bottom-up” therapies, to help change and improve how we feel, think and connect with others. 

•  The training and certification are provided by Unyte. Unyte helps transform the lives of people every day through empowering health care providers to guide their clients to feel, think, and connect better through improved nervous system regulation.  Unytes's mission is to empower others to regulate their nervous system so they can feel safe, happy, healthy, and more effectively respond to life’s challenges.