You went looking for the Safe and Sound Protocol for your child, not for yourself. A child can listen. What changes is that somebody has to read their response: the therapist, OT or doctor who recommended SSP for your child, or you, if you already know how to pace a round.
From Sangheetha Parthasarathy, a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and certified SSP provider who homeschools her own two daughters.
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Not a different child. A child whose nervous system is not braced all day. That usually shows up in ordinary, unglamorous ways: noise stops emptying the room, a meltdown ends in ten minutes instead of an hour, the shift from screen to dinner to bed stops being three fights, sleep arrives without a two-hour runway.
This is not a treatment for autism or ADHD and it does not make a child neurotypical. It works underneath all of that, on how much threat their system is registering in a normal day. When that setting comes down, the other supports you are already paying for, OT, speech, school accommodations, therapy, tend to land better, because your child is not fighting their own alarm while trying to use them.
A child cannot always tell you they have had enough before their body shows it, so somebody has to read the response and slow it down in time. If your child's therapist, OT or doctor has recommended the Safe and Sound Protocol and is guiding it, or you already know how to pace a round, the self-led licence is enough: ₹7,999, three months of the Unyte SSP app with the Connect and Core pathways. Naadham, at ₹25,000, adds a weekly live group Q&A every Sunday at 11 AM IST where you bring your questions, 19 self-paced video lessons and a library of guided meditations. If nobody is reading your child's response yet, talk to their therapist, OT or doctor about SSP before you buy.
"One person's dysregulation was setting the tone for the whole household, tension building faster than anyone could name it. After doing Safe and Sound Protocol together as a family, they found it noticeably easier to co-regulate as a unit, calming each other down instead of setting each other off."
— A family with more than one dysregulated member, Unyte case study3 months of access · India only
4 quick safety questions first, under a minute.
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These need a doctor's okay first, or mean SSP should not be used, and they apply to your child exactly as much as to you:
That last one cuts both ways for ND kids, and it is worth saying out loud rather than leaving you to guess. Sound sensitivity is one of the most common reasons parents land on this page. Severe auditory sensitivity is also on the caution list. Which side of the line your child is on is a real clinical question, and it is one to settle with your child's doctor before you start.
Almost everyone who finds this page is the mother. You have read more about your child's nervous system in the last two years than most people read about anything. The sensory profile, the triggers, the school meetings, the diet theories, the 1am searches. You are the household's expert on their regulation.
Nobody has asked about yours.
That is not a line about self-care, and it is not a suggestion that you are the problem. It is closer to the opposite. You are the nervous system your child borrows from all day, so your own state is not a side issue to their progress, it is part of the mechanism. Most mothers who arrive here for their child start a round of their own somewhere along the way, and quite often that is the part that changes the house.
Self-led, ₹7,999, one payment, 3 months. The app on your own time, for your own nervous system. No calls, no schedule to keep.
This one's me →A short check on your nervous system, not your child's. Costs nothing, and tells you where you actually are before you decide anything.
Take the check →No. SSP works on the nervous system's threat setting, which is why what shifts is usually sensory reactivity, how long a meltdown lasts, how transitions go, how sleep starts. It does not remove a diagnosis and it is not a replacement for OT, speech, or school support. What parents often report is that those things get easier to use, because the child is not fighting their own alarm the whole time.
Yes, if someone who knows your child is guiding it. If their therapist, OT or doctor has recommended SSP, or you already know how to pace a round, the self-led licence (₹7,999, three months) works for a child's listening too. A child cannot always tell you they have had enough before their body does, so somebody has to read that. If there is nobody in that role yet, talk to your child's therapist, OT or doctor about SSP first. Naadham adds a weekly live group Q&A, every Sunday at 11 AM IST, where you bring your questions.
Children and teenagers, and the right starting point depends far more on the child than on their age. That is a question for the therapist, OT or doctor who recommended SSP for your child.
That is your choice, and many parents do their own round first. Partly because children co-regulate, they borrow calm from the nearest steady adult before they can generate their own. Partly for a blunter reason: you are the one running the sessions at home, and a parent who is running on empty cannot read a child's response well. Many parents tell us their own round is what changed the house.
Yes, and plenty of mothers do. The self-led option is three months of app access, you and the app, aimed at your own nervous system rather than your child's, with no calls and no schedule to keep. It is the lower-cost door and it is a real one, not a consolation prize: SSP for parents of ND kids. If you would rather spend nothing yet, start with the free check.
Very common, and not a dealbreaker. Connect does not need special headphones, a speaker works too. Start with whatever your child will tolerate, sometimes a minute, and build from there. Core needs over-ear headphones, so if headphones are a hard no right now, raise it with the therapist, OT or doctor who recommended SSP before moving to Core.
Both, and which one applies to your child is a real question rather than a formality. Sound sensitivity is one of the most common reasons parents come here. Severe auditory sensitivity, tinnitus, misophonia and hyperacusis are also on the list of things that need a doctor's clearance before starting. Where your child sits on that line is a question for their doctor before you start.
For Connect, you do not need special headphones, a speaker works too, so you can begin straight away. Core, the filtered pathway, needs standard over-ear headphones, not noise-cancelling ones and not earbuds, because those filter the sound in ways that work against the protocol.
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No. It is a nervous system listening protocol, not a therapy service. If something surfaces that needs clinical care, please see a mental health practitioner. That is outside the scope of this program.
Refunds are issued if program access fails to activate. Once access is working, we do not offer refunds for a completed purchase, so it is worth being sure this is the right fit before you start.
