Learn How This Differs from Guided Sound Therapy

Many people arrive at sound healing with prior experiences of guided meditation, visualization, affirmations, or spoken instruction. For some, those experiences felt supportive. For others—especially those with trauma histories—they felt overwhelming, intrusive, or simply not accessible.

This work takes a different approach.

Guided Sound Therapy Often Leads the Experience

In guided sound therapy, the nervous system is often asked to:

• Follow verbal instructions

• Visualize specific imagery

• Relax in a particular way

• Move toward a defined emotional or energetic outcome

  
  

The voice directs the body. The structure defines the destination.

For some nervous systems, this can feel orienting. For others, it can feel like pressure—especially if the body is not ready to go where the words are asking it to go.

Trauma-Informed Sound Healing Listens First

In this space, sound is not used to direct or correct the body.

It is offered as an environment.

There are no instructions telling you how to feel.

No affirmations asking you to believe something.

No visualization asking you to imagine a safer place than the one your body already knows.

Instead, sound is allowed to arrive without expectation.

Gongs, bowls, and harmonic instruments create vibration, resonance, and spaciousness. The nervous system responds in its own timing—or not at all. Both are welcome.

Why This Difference Matters

Trauma is not held in the thinking mind. It is held in the nervous system.

A nervous system shaped by trauma often needs:

• Choice instead of direction

• Spaciousness instead of goals

• Permission instead of instruction

• Time instead of urgency

  
  

Listening-based sound healing respects these needs.

Rather than asking the body to override its responses, this work trusts that the body already knows how to orient toward safety when given the right conditions.

Peaceful meditation: A woman relaxes on a pillow amidst candles and singing bowls, embracing tranquility in a serene listening session.

Nothing Is Required of You Here

You do not need to:

• Relax

• Heal

• Release

• Feel calm

• Have a particular experience

  
  

You can rest.

You can stay alert.

You can drift.

You can simply listen.

The sound does not demand participation.

It does not correct your experience.

It meets you where you are.

Sound as a Relationship, Not a Technique

This work understands sound not as a tool applied to the body, but as a relationship the body enters—or doesn’t.

Each session is different because each nervous system is different. What matters is not the outcome, but the quality of listening that is allowed to unfold.

This is not about being guided somewhere else.

It is about being supported right here.