SSP Wellness CenterReviews of sspwellnesscenter.org

I started the SSP Protocol for my son who is 11 years old and has Non verbal autism. He has a lot of sensory issues and everyday brings its own challenges. Self regulation and managing meltdowns and outbursts everyday and with SSP this journey got a whole lot easier. We have tried other music therapy before but if had an adverse effect on the child. But with SSP wellness centres approach of playing only few minutes of music per day in a set routine worked wonders. The child is more regulated with meltdowns and outbursts reducing by over 80 percent. He is happier and less nervous than before and goes through his therapies and daily activities with a very different approach with a marked improvement in his modes of non verbal communication. He has become extremely good at communicating via a letterboard with not just his needs and demands but also his emotions and opinions. We have been on this therapy for 4months now and still on Connect and already seeing so much improvement in his daily behaviour. Throughout the journey we have had guidance and one to one contact with SSP Wellness Centre and I cannot thank Samantha, my sons therapist, enough for all her support and her insights on my childs SSP therapy, his reactions and how to handle them in a positive and practical manner for better self regulation and trauma healing.

I started the Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) through the SSP Wellness Centre a few months ago after going through an incredibly difficult period, both at work and personally. During that time I was also diagnosed with prostate cancer and underwent surgery, which understandably increased my anxiety and stress levels. Looking back, I can honestly say the programme has made a real difference to me. I’m much calmer than I was, and my wife and family have all commented on the positive change they’ve seen. I feel more relaxed, more in control, and generally much easier to live with! One of the biggest changes has been at work. As Managing Director of a growing business, I found myself becoming anxious every time the phone rang or a new email came in. Since completing the programme, that constant feeling of tension has eased significantly. I’m now able to enjoy my work again rather than constantly anticipating the next problem. I’d also like to thank Emma Clark, who has been incredibly supportive throughout the whole process. She has always been understanding, patient and encouraging, taking the time to explain each stage of the programme and check in on how I was getting on. Her calm and reassuring approach made a huge difference and gave me the confidence to stick with it. I would highly recommend the SSP Wellness Centre to anyone who is struggling with anxiety or recovering from a particularly challenging period in their life. For me, it has been an important part of getting back to feeling like myself again.

SSP is changing my life! I have been doing SSP for almost a year, after some big trauma moments in my life. I’ve tried a lot of different healing modalities and techniques, and while they have helped my journey, SSP has taken it to the next level in a powerful, but gentle way. It is simple yet strong. It is so surprising that a few seconds to a minute every day can make such a difference in how my nervous system feels and how safe I feel in the world now. Along with SSP I have been seeing Elena, the somatic coach, and she has been such a major asset in my life! I cannot say enough good things about her and what she has taught me! Her somatic practices are gentle and effective. She is such a positive and supportive light in my healing journey. She is a wonderful asset to have during this SSP process, because if I ever hit any bumps in the road or low points, she is there to help me express what I am feeling and get to the root of it. SSP, Elena, and the whole team have been so amazing and supportive! They are incredible and I am so happy that I found them!

SSP Wellness Center is the only place I would recommend for SSP! I have been through exceptionally hard and intense health journey, lots of suffering and losses. I have also intense traumas from loosing family member to suicide and developmental traumas. My health state is very fragile and Im super hyper sensitive to everything. Emma recognized this right away and we started only with 10 seconds per day. This is the only way to untangle the nervous system that has been drowned under biological and psychological trauma. I have now done it for months, and Im at 25 seconds per day. I have also done other things for trauma work, but for me it seems that SSP opens up the nervous system and creates a window for neuroplastic changes, which then allows everything else to work. For me, lifelong behaviour patterns started to fall off effortlessly. Through this process I realized how helping others is a trauma behaviour that comes from feeling deeply unsafe (fawning), and trying to desperately save my family member, basically being stuck in trauma for 24 years. I also started to get angry a lot at one stage. Anything or anybody too much created lots of anger. It seems that for the first time in my life I started getting real, embodied boundaries (not the ones where you have to mentally fight against your own urges). Then came the hermit phase. After all my life of NEEDING people so badly, trying to get some kind of safety from them, I was finally able to be alone, in peace. My system devoured it. I now keep progressing and Im probably exciting the hermit phase. I have been able to access my deep traumas in journalling and other trauma work like never before. My trauma dreams are changing. My life is changing. And Im healing from physical issues that have been extremely severe. And Im getting so psychic and intuitive, its crazy :) Its a side effect of this, so be aware! :) Im a really curious, scientific person who always digs deep and finds out the mechanisms of how something works, but I give up on this. I have no idea how SSP can be such a powerful thing and how on earth Porges did it. Im just glad it works! Emma has been fantastic guidance throughout this process and her answers are so well thought out and insightful. I could trust the most sensitive people to her hands!

I started my SSP journey, very skeptical, 12 months ago. I had been living in chronic pain from relentless ankylosing spondylitis flare-ups for what felt like a lifetime. Following the program with the support from Trever has been life-changing. I've gone from struggling with mobility and having immunosuppressive injections whilst still taking pain relief daily, to being completely medication-free and feeling like a different person. I cannot recommend SSP Wellness Center enough!

Over the past 12 months, in fits and starts, and through an enchanting string of insights, I have been altering the course of my life under Emma’s guidance. At 76, what was at first a faint light is beginning to shine on the true purpose of my life. I am finding that it is not too late. From childhood, I have been searching - searching for relief from chronic pain throughout my body. Decades later, the pain had mostly retreated but then morphed into deep mental pain. Despite engaging in therapy of every possible kind, I felt, until January 2025, as though I might never be able to heal, and never know what I was meant to accomplish in this world. Like many whose reviews I enjoyed on this site, I don’t claim to fully understand how the Safe and Sound Protocol works on my nervous system. But it does. With SSP, Emma is leading me through an extraordinary maze of ideas, reflection, feeling and discovery. As an artist and an « intellectual », I find the journey fascinating. And what makes it possible, despite its less-than-straight path to healing, is my absolute trust in Emma. Her guidance and support are unrelenting, no matter what I’m up to! Incredibly, I now feel that I still have plenty of time to better contribute to other people’s lives - loved ones and strangers alike - and to cherish them as I have always yearned to. Thank you, Emma. Thank you, SSP. Michèle G.

Trever helped me a lot! The effects of SSP is something I’ve been looking for for a while now. I’ve done many modalities and I started to zone in on my nervous system being a part of the whole problem I was looking for. The first provider I was connected to when I first heard about the Safe and Sound Protocol practiced in a conventional way and she charged hundreds for each session. She said this process may even take many sessions after the round is completed. I calculated that that practitioner could cost me thousands just to see if SSP was a right fit for me. It was frustrating. I couldn’t afford that. I somehow found SSP Wellness Center and I was impressed how their website looked. It was very well organized and had so much information that was easy to read. It was friendly and approachable. I thought if this website is a reflection of the people who ran it they must be good. Then I saw the pricing and knew I could afford this. I read about their micro dosing method and it seemed interesting. I don’t need my life to be interrupted to go through something intense. I got to say, after being on my second round now that it works! I’ve eased into a better state of mind and I’ve stayed on SSP for many months now. It’s not like just one week then it’s over. Think of waveforms like the Stockmarket. If you do SSP gradually and for a long time you’re likely to stay on that higher state and plateau, rather than spike and drop… Trever himself has been amazing. He is punctual and responds every time I do. Trever is always available for me. He encourages me and reads my periodic messages throughly. Trever offers insight and resources. I like that he’s a guy too because he really understands my perspective and problems I go through being a man. What’s great about SSP Wellness Center is that Trever’s wife Emma is available for women to relate to. I have found these people to be very professional and effective. I plan to stay on their SSP plan. I highly recommend SSP Wellness Center! -Rich

I’ve been living with chronic lower back pain for many years. Over time, I tried everything I could think of—physical therapy, chiropractic adjustments, anti-inflammatory diets, stretching, posture therapy, red light therapy, psoas release tools, acupuncture, and so many other treatments. Nothing gave me lasting relief. One day, while searching online for new options, I stumbled upon somatic movement. I gave it a shot, and while it helped a little, the relief didn’t last. On the same website, I also found an article about SSP (Safe and Sound Protocol). I reached out to Trever and decided to give it a try. Honestly, I was skeptical—but at that point, I was open to anything. During the first few days, I listened for just one minute a day, and surprisingly, I felt better. I thought it had to be the placebo effect. But when we increased the listening time by only 10 seconds, things actually got worse. That blew my mind—how could just 10 seconds make such a difference? We went back down to one minute, and I kept a daily log of how I was feeling for over three months. Slowly but surely, my pain dropped from a level 7 to about a 3. That felt amazing—but I still hoped to get even better. Trever suggested trying some brain retraining programs. I experimented until I discovered Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) and Alan Gordon’s book The Way Out. That’s when things really clicked. I realized my pain was “neuroplastic pain.” With some simple techniques, I started teaching my brain to process these sensations as safe. Combining SSP with PRT, within about a month my pain dropped even further—to about a 1. Around that same time, my three-year-old cat, who’s been with us since she was just two months old, suddenly started having health issues. She began peeing on the floor, and we noticed blood in her urine. We rushed her to the vet, but ultrasounds and lab work showed nothing. Medications and prescription diets didn’t help either. While I was in my second month of SSP, I remembered reading on Trever’s website that SSP could also help animals. I contacted him right away, and we set up a program for my cat. Getting her to listen wasn’t easy, but we managed. After the first week, she had one more incident, but after that—nothing. She completed the full SSP program in about a month and a half, and she hasn’t had a single issue since. That was a huge turning point for me. If SSP was just placebo, it wouldn’t have worked for my cat—she had no idea what it was. I still don’t fully understand the science behind how SSP calms the nervous system, but I don’t need to. What I know is this: it has helped both me and my cat in ways nothing else ever has. I’m so grateful for it, and I’d recommend it to anyone dealing with chronic pain or stress.