Trauma-Focused
The Role of Regulation in Trauma-Focused Approaches
Trauma-focused therapies create pathways to healing by helping clients process experiences that once felt unbearable. Yet when the nervous system remains in a state of defense, access to safety, memory and connection can feel out of reach.
Unyte’s evidence-based listening therapies complement trauma-informed approaches by supporting regulation — helping clients stabilize, re-engage with their bodies, and experience a greater sense of safety in therapy and daily life.
Trauma-Focused
The Role of Regulation in Trauma-Focused Approaches
Trauma-focused therapies create pathways to healing by helping clients process experiences that once felt unbearable. Yet when the nervous system remains in a state of defense, access to safety, memory, and connection can feel out of reach.
Unyte’s evidence-based listening therapies complement trauma-informed approaches by supporting regulation — helping clients stabilize, re-engage with their bodies, and experience a greater sense of safety in therapy and daily life.
Why Regulation Matters in Trauma-Focused Approaches
Trauma is stored not only in memories, but also in the body and nervous system. Clients may enter therapy cycling between sympathetic activation and shutdown — states that make it difficult to integrate insights or sustain progress.
By introducing nervous system regulation through sound frequencies, Unyte’s listening therapies help shift clients from defense to regulation. This foundation allows trauma-focused modalities, such as EMDR, Somatic Experiencing®, Internal Family Systems and trauma-informed CBT, to reach deeper levels of healing and integration.
From dysregulation
→
To nervous system regulation
→
To more effective progress
From dysregulation
To nervous system regulation
To more effective progress
How Our Programs Fit Your Practice
Unyte’s listening therapies are designed to integrate seamlessly into trauma-informed work, supporting clinicians as they help clients regulate, reconnect and rebuild.
Safe and Sound
Protocol™ (SSP)
Protocol™ (SSP)
Uses filtered music to regulate the autonomic nervous system, reducing hypervigilance and promoting a sense of safety and trust — ideal for preparing clients for deeper trauma processing.
- Targets the ventral vagal pathway and social engagement system
- Improves social connection, sound sensitivities, and autonomic regulation
- Delivered via 5 hours of music, best experienced while engaging in regulating activities
Rest and Restore
Protocol™
Protocol™
RRP extends regulation into the sub-diaphragmatic domain, supporting rhythmic communication between the brainstem and visceral organs. RRP promotes autonomic flexibility, parasympathetic restoration and immobilisation without fear.
- RRP targets the healing qualities of the autonomic nervous system
- Supports deep relaxation, recovery, balance in the body and mind, and connection to self, cultivating interoception and self-regulation.
- A dynamic, progressive program, including five hours of Sonocea® Enhanced musical themes.
Integrated Listening System™ (ILS)
Supports brain-body integration and sensory processing, particularly for clients with developmental trauma or complex sensory sensitivities.
- Engages and stimulates different parts of the brain (visual, auditory, and vestibular systems)
- Improves brain-body organization for skill-building and optimization
- Delivered via 5 programs with modified music plus movement and bone conduction
Benefits for Clients
- Enhanced sense of safety and self-connection.
- Reduced reactivity, emotional flooding, and shutdown.
- Greater capacity for presence, memory integration, and self-regulation.
- Sustainable progress between sessions and in daily life.
Benefits for Professionals
- Clients are more stable and prepared for trauma processing.
- Fewer disruptions from dysregulation or overwhelm.
- Enhanced effectiveness of EMDR, somatic, and parts-based therapies.
- Evidence-based tools that deepen therapeutic outcomes while supporting clinician and client co-regulation.
Real Stories. Real Results.
Backed by research and grounded in lived experience, these case studies highlight the measurable impact of nervous system regulation across diverse modalities and populations.
“Truly Life-Changing”: How the Safe and Sound Protocol™ (SSP) Helped Lissi Rebuild After a Traumatic Year of Loss
Lissi experienced numerous traumatic events in a short time frame, including losing her home and her job. She turned to the Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) to help her manage the mental and physical symptoms she developed.
Rest and Restore Protocol™ for Thawing Freeze and Healing Trauma
Jeremy had an extensive trauma history that made him emotionally withdrawn. Struggling with a connection between mind and body, his provider suggested Rest and Restore Protocol to help Jeremy rekindle this connection and heal.
Rest and Restore Protocol™ and Safe and Sound Protocol™ Help Woman Process and Heal from Deep Trauma
Sadie presented with PTSD and sensory sensitivity, which felt overwhelming in her day-to-day life. After concurrent rounds of SSP and RRP, she was able to feel more physically and emotionally relaxed.
What Unyte Providers Are Saying
“One of the largest treatment gains has been access to a more deeply regulated version of Ben (client). After completing the Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP), when he is able to experience new material in a ventral vagal state, he is receptive to new concepts and adjusts well to new routines… Read more
Laurie Belanger, LCSWR
“Safe, sound, and simple. The level of ease and simplicity that comes with SSP digital delivery contributes to keeping the experience within reach of the nervous system’s capacity to safely engage.”
Deb Dana, LCSW
“When Jeremy (client) first came to me, he was completely shut down — disconnected from his body and caught between sympathetic and dorsal activation. Through the Rest and Restore Protocol, I watched his system begin to thaw. ...Read more
Andrew Lovell, SEP
“Sophie, 33, presented with severe anxiety, depression, and recurrent hospitalizations, unresponsive to medication or multiple therapeutic approaches. Through 21 remote Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) sessions integrated with somatic regulation practices… Read more
Dr. Vincent Wilkin, M.D., Somatic Practice
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