The Sound Mind Life
Now Offering Listening Therapies
A gentle, science-backed approach to healing that uses evidence-based sound and music therapies to support nervous system regulation, reduce stress, and build emotional resilience.
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Reconnect with your body, breath, & inner peace
SSP & RRP
What are Listening Therapies?
Listening therapies are gentle, evidence-based sound interventions that support nervous system regulation, emotional processing, and overall well-being. At The Sound Mind Life, we offer two integrative auditory tools: the Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) and the Rest & Restore Protocol (RRP). Both are rooted in neuroscience and grounded in Polyvagal Theory, developed by Dr. Stephen Porges.
These therapies use filtered sound or infrasound to support your body’s natural ability to return to a calm, connected state, improving emotional resilience, internal awareness, and stress recovery. Whether you’re feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or disconnected from your body, these modalities offer a pathway back to safety and restoration. Delivered in person or remotely, listening therapies are ideal for anyone seeking to deepen their healing journey through non-invasive, somatic support.
What We Offer
Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP)
SSP is a gentle, science-backed method to help your body feel calm, safe, and more connected. You’ll listen to specially filtered music that helps quiet your stress response and restore a sense of ease. It’s simple to use, flexible with your schedule, and done from the comfort of home.
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Rest & Restore Protocol (RRP)
A gentle, body-centered sound experience that helps calm your physiology and reconnect your natural rhythms. Using low-frequency, specially enhanced music, it supports deep rest, stress recovery, and nervous system regulation, all from the comfort of home, at your own pace.
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What are the Benefits of Listening Therapies?
Listening therapies like the Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) and Rest & Restore Protocol (RRP) help calm an overwhelmed nervous system and reestablish a sense of safety, connection, and inner balance. These gentle, sound-based interventions support your body’s natural rhythms, making it easier to move out of survival mode and into a state of ease, healing, and emotional resilience.
Potential benefits may include:
Improved ability to manage stress, anxiety, and overwhelm
Reduced sound sensitivities and sensory overload
Enhanced emotional regulation and behavioral flexibility
Stronger sense of connection to self and others
Support for trauma recovery, nervous system repair, and interoception
Improved sleep, digestion, and other rhythm-based body functions
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Whether you’re seeking support for emotional healing or simply want to reconnect with your body in a more grounded way, listening therapies offer a gentle and powerful path forward.
How SSP & RRP Work
Our nervous system is designed to protect us, often reacting to stress or trauma with fight, flight, or freeze responses. But when these systems stay activated long after the threat has passed, it can lead to chronic tension, anxiety, or emotional disconnection.
Listening therapies like the Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) and the Rest and Restore Protocol (RRP) use specially engineered sound and music to gently support nervous system regulation. By stimulating areas of the brain connected to safety and rhythm, these tools help shift the body out of survival mode and into a state of calm, connection, and healing. Delivered through headphones in the comfort of your home, these evidence-based interventions are non-invasive, easy to use, and powerfully effective.
Polyvagal Theory: The Science of Feeling Safe
Polyvagal Theory, developed by Dr. Stephen Porges, explains how our autonomic nervous system detects safety and threat, shaping how we feel, think, and respond to the world around us. This theory offers a powerful framework for understanding why trauma, stress, and chronic dysregulation can keep us stuck in patterns of anxiety, disconnection, or shutdown. Listening therapies like the Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) and the Rest & Restore Protocol (RRP) offered by The Sound Mind Life, bring this science into practice. Both use sound to gently shift the nervous system out of survival mode and into a state of safety, calm, and connection, supporting deeper healing from the inside out.
Frequently Asked Questions:
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SSP and RRP are designed for adults who want to improve nervous system regulation, reduce emotional reactivity, and feel more grounded in everyday life. They are especially helpful for individuals navigating trauma, anxiety, stress-related symptoms, or who are looking for body-based tools to support healing. While SSP is also used with children in other settings, The Sound Mind currently offers both listening therapies to adults only.
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Listening therapies are not traditional psychotherapy and are not delivered by a therapist. They are self-paced therapeutic tools facilitated by certified providers and can be used on their own or in combination with therapy, coaching, somatic work, or intensives.
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No. Because these programs are not clinical services and require private app access, they are not eligible for insurance billing. The Sound Mind offers both listening therapies for an additional fee.
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Yes. After a personalized onboarding session, you can complete the program at your own pace. Both SSP and RRP are designed to be flexible and completed from home, with support from our team to ensure safe and effective use.
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Each program is delivered through a secure app and involves listening to specially designed music through over-the-ear headphones. Sessions are completed in short increments over several days or weeks to allow the nervous system time to integrate the effects. You’ll receive personalized guidance, pacing recommendations, and ongoing support from a trained provider.
