Biofeedback
I'm excited to offer the Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) and the Rest and Restore Protocol (RRP) as part of your treatment plan. Listening is one of the first senses to develop in the womb, and fundamentally shapes our connection, regulation, and experience of the world. These music-based listening therapies are designed as adjuncts to talk therapy, helping ease the nervous system out of a defensive state and into one of safety and calm. In this more regulated state, the nervous system is better able to participate in treatment — often improving its effectiveness and helping the gains carry over into daily life.
Below is more information about this simple process of using music to help reset your nervous system. It can sound almost too simple that listening to music could have such a meaningful impact on symptoms of PTSD and ADHD — but I've witnessed it firsthand, both in my own nervous system and in those of my clients.
What Is the Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP)?
The SSP is a 5-hour, evidence-based auditory intervention developed by Dr. Stephen Porges and grounded in Polyvagal Theory. You'll listen to specially filtered music — through over-the-ear headphones via the MyUnyte app, either in person or remotely — that has been acoustically modified to emphasize the frequencies associated with the human voice and prosody.
The idea is that this filtered sound cues the nervous system's sense of safety, helping to down-regulate the sympathetic "fight or flight" response and support the ventral vagal "safe and social" state. This can lead to improved emotional regulation, auditory processing, and capacity for social engagement.
SSP is often used as a foundation for, or adjunct to, deeper trauma work, and pairs well with EMDR, Somatic Experiencing, and CBT. Providers commonly find it helpful for trauma histories, anxiety and depression, sensory or auditory sensitivities, attention and behavioral regulation, social communication difficulties, and sleep disturbance.
Research on the SSP has shown meaningful results in as little as five days in the following areas:
Social and emotional difficulties
Auditory sensitivities
Anxiety and trauma-related challenges
Inattention
Stressors that impact social engagement
What Is the Rest and Restore Protocol (RRP)?
RRP is a newer, 10-session listening program co-developed by Anthony Gorry and Dr. Stephen Porges, delivered the same way — through the Unyte Health app, with therapist guidance. Rather than the voice-prosody filtering used in SSP, RRP uses composition-constrained, rhythmically embedded soundscapes built around the concept of homeostatic entrainment: steady, grounded, rhythmic audio designed to gently guide the body's internal rhythms back toward balance, rather than targeting any single physiological system.
RRP supports deeper autonomic settling and physiological restoration — better sleep, digestive comfort, reduced chronic stress and fatigue, and greater emotional steadiness and resilience. It's often a good next step after SSP, or for clients who need ongoing regulation support, helping consolidate a felt sense of calm and become more consistently available for the deeper work of therapy over time.
RRP's rhythmic, grounding soundscapes offer the following benefits:
Supports autonomic regulation. A structured, therapist-guided listening experience over ten sessions that helps create the conditions for autonomic comfort and steadiness, so clients can move through daily life with greater ease.
Supports rest, settling, and digestive comfort. Helps create a calmer internal state that may enhance patterns related to rest, digestion, and overall balance.
Encourages emotional awareness and stress-coping capacity. Helps clients become more aware of their emotions and better able to navigate stress with clarity and calm.
Promotes a sense of calm and steadiness. A gradual, titrated listening journey that supports clients in moving from tension or fatigue toward a more relaxed, grounded state.
Integrates seamlessly with restorative care. Designed to complement body-based therapies, mental health approaches, functional health modalities, and neurodevelopmental frameworks by offering supportive sonic conditions aligned with autonomic-focused care.
Understanding Trauma and PTSD
Trauma is the response to a deeply distressing or disturbing event that overwhelms a person's ability to cope — leaving them feeling helpless, diminishing their sense of self, and narrowing their capacity to feel a full range of emotions and experiences. While there's no single set of criteria for which events cause post-trauma symptoms, they typically involve a loss of control, betrayal, abuse of power, helplessness, pain, confusion, or loss.
When symptoms of trauma last more than a month and significantly affect a person's ability to function, they may be experiencing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). PTSD symptoms can escalate into panic attacks, depression, suicidal thoughts and feelings, substance use, isolation, and difficulty completing daily tasks.
Trauma can push the nervous system into a chronic state of defense — fight, flight, freeze, or shutdown. In this state, a person seeking treatment for trauma symptoms or PTSD may struggle to turn off their nervous system's tendency to perceive and interpret stimuli as threatening, including stimuli experienced during treatment itself. This can limit the effectiveness of therapy and prolong the course of treatment.
The Biofeedback Package
From the comfort of your home, you'll have access to these interventions for six months for $1,000, which includes two 50-minute sessions to help you learn techniques for self-regulation.Biofeedback