Safe and Sound Protocol
Feel Calm in Your Own Body Again
If anxiety, sensory overwhelm, or constant stress are running your life, and talk therapy isn't enough, there's another way.
Does This Sound Like You?
✗ You're always on edge. Loud sounds make you jump. Crowded places feel overwhelming. Your body never feels safe.
✗ You've tried everything. Therapy helps you understand your anxiety, but you still feel it in your body. Breathing exercises only go so far.
✗ You're exhausted from managing it. You're tired of white-knuckling through life, pretending you're fine when your nervous system is screaming.
Here's the truth: This isn't about willpower. It's about your nervous system being stuck in survival mode.
And that's exactly what Safe & Sound Protocol (SSP) is designed to fix.
You Don't Have to Live This Way
At InnerWorks Counselling, we've helped hundreds of people, infants, children, teens, and adults (including seniors), find the regulation their nervous systems have been searching for.
Safe & Sound Protocol isn't traditional talk therapy. It's a neuroscience-based listening therapy that retrains your nervous system to feel safe, calm, and connected.
Developed by Dr. Stephen Porges (creator of Polyvagal Theory), SSP uses specially filtered music to gently stimulate your vagus nerve, the part of your nervous system responsible for feeling calm.
The result? Your body learns to shift out of fight-or-flight and into a state where healing, connection, and peace are possible.
How SSP works: simple, gentle, effective
Step 1: Book Your Free Consultation
Contact us to speak with an SSP Practitioner. We'll talk about what you're experiencing, explain how SSP works, and help you decide if it's the right fit, with no pressure, just clarity.
Step 2: Meet Your SSP Practitioner
In your first paid session, you'll meet with a trained SSP practitioner who will help you choose the best format for you:
• In-Person Co-Listening: Come to our London, ON office and listen with your clinician supporting you
• At-Home Program: Listen at your own pace with professional check-ins and guidance throughout
Step 3: Listen & Regulate
Over 5 hours (broken into short, manageable sessions), you'll listen to specially filtered music through headphones. That's it. Your nervous system does the rest.
Timeline: Most people complete SSP in 2-4 weeks, depending on their pace and comfort level.
Ready to Feel Like Yourself Again?
You've spent long enough trying to manage anxiety and overwhelm on your own. SSP can help your nervous system finally feel safe, so you can focus, sleep, connect, and breathe easier.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
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SSP is a 5-hour listening therapy that uses specially filtered music to retrain your nervous system. It's based on Dr. Stephen Porges' Polyvagal Theory and works by gently stimulating the vagus nerve to help your body feel safe.
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Children, teens, and adults experiencing anxiety, sensory sensitivities, trauma responses, emotional dysregulation, sleep problems, or difficulty with social connection. It's especially helpful for neurodivergent individuals and anyone who feels "stuck" in fight-or-flight.
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Not quite. The music in SSP is acoustically modified in a specific way that targets the neural pathways responsible for regulation. It's not about the music itself, it's about how the sound retrains your nervous system.
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Most people complete the 5-hour program over 2-4 weeks in short sessions (10-60 minutes each). You move at your own pace.
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Yes! SSP is delivered by registered therapists, so most extended health insurance plans cover it. We can help you check your specific policy.
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Access fee: $250 (includes 3-month app access and program materials)
Intake session (75 min): $235
4 weekly follow-up sessions (25 min each): $100/session
Total investment: $885 (often partially or fully covered by insurance)
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Our free consultation will help answer any questions you may have before you book to help you determine if SSP is right for you, with zero pressure!
What Life Can Look Like After SSP
Our clients tell us:
✅ "I can finally be in crowded spaces without feeling like I'm going to crawl out of my skin."
✅ "My child sleeps through the night now, and so do I."
✅ "I didn't realize how much energy I was spending just trying to feel okay. Now I actually am okay."
✅ "SSP gave me what years of talk therapy couldn't: a body that feels safe."
Imagine:
Walking into a busy room and feeling calm
Sleeping deeply instead of waking up anxious
Responding to stress instead of reacting
Actually enjoying social situations
Feeling at home in your own body
That's what regulation feels like. And SSP can help you get there.
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 body and the 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.
Check out the video below to learn more.
Your Nervous System Doesn't Have to Run Your Life
You deserve to feel calm, connected, and safe in your own body.
Without nervous system support, you risk:
⚠️ Years more of anxiety that talk therapy alone can't fully resolve
⚠️ Burnout from constantly managing symptoms instead of fixing the root cause
⚠️ Missing out on relationships, career opportunities, and life experiences because your body won't let you feel safe
⚠️ Passing it on, children of dysregulated adults often struggle with regulation themselves SSP helps you break the cycle, gently, scientifically, and effectively.
SSP can help you get there.
📍 InnerWorks Counselling, London, ON
📞 226-400-4330
📧 hello@innerworkslondon.com
Why InnerWorks?
✓ Certified SSP Providers - Professionally trained and supervised
✓ Evidence-Based - Built on decades of neuroscience research
✓ Flexible Options - In-person or at-home, you choose
✓ Direct billed Insurance - We bill most extended health plans directly
✓ 5+ Years Serving London, ON - Trusted by families and professionals