Root-Cause Therapy Book
Root-Cause Therapy: A Method for True, Lasting Change
By Melissa Hiemann, Creator of Root-Cause Therapy and Co-Founder of The Centre for Healing
You have done the work. You have read the books, tried talk therapy, done the journalling, attended the events. And yet something remains. The same pattern resurfaces. The same ceiling appears. The same wound reopens in a new situation with a different face.
Here's the thing...
Most approaches work at the level of the conscious mind, with thoughts, language, and the stories we tell about our experience. But the nervous system does not respond to logic. The body does not release what it is holding because someone explained to it why the holding is no longer necessary. For lasting change to happen, we need to work at the level where the wound was originally created.
That is what this book is about.
WHAT THIS BOOK COVERS:
The book moves through six complete parts:
Part One: The Problem With Surface-Level Healing
Why talk therapy, CBT, and mindset work often don't produce lasting change, and what is structurally missing from most conventional approaches.
Part Two: The Science The neuroscience of trauma and healing, epigenetics, neuroplasticity, the polyvagal system, and why the body holds what the mind cannot process.
Part Three: The Method The full RCT process, from the Testing Sheet and sway testing to the Timeline and Somatic regression healing. Step by step, session by session.
Part Four: Specialised Protocols How to work with addiction, generational and natal trauma, physical symptoms, relationships, and more.
Part Five: Personal Stories Real cases from the clinic, including a heroin addiction, relationship issues and more all healed at its root and a decade-long stress pattern resolved when its origin was finally found and addressed.
Part Six: Building Your Practice Practical guidance for practitioners on structuring sessions, working with clients, and building a practice founded on genuine root-cause healing.
THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU IF:
You have tried therapy, self-help, or personal development and something still hasn't shifted. You are a practitioner who senses you are circling the real thing without quite landing on it. You work with people experiencing anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, or relationship patterns and want tools that go deeper. You want to understand, at a scientific and practical level, why the body holds what it holds and how to help it finally let go.
"The Root-Cause Therapy certification gave me so much more than just a set of tools. It supported deep personal healing while teaching me how to hold space for others in a safe, structured and powerful way. I feel more connected to myself and more confident in how I can help others. Melissa's presence throughout is warm and real. You can feel the integrity behind everything that has been created." — Nelia Joubert-Hartman, RCT Certification
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Melissa Hiemann NLPP. CH.t TLTP RC.t is the creator of Root-Cause Therapy and Co-Founder of The Centre for Healing. Her path into this work began not in a classroom but in her own life, navigating undiagnosed anxiety and trauma through self-medication until she found an approach that actually worked. She has spent the years since weaving together NLP, hypnotherapy, timeline therapy, somatic practice, inner child work, breathwork, and epigenetics into a single cohesive framework that addresses not just symptoms but the origin of patterns.
She and her partner Ryan Hassan opened a fully booked alternative mental health and addiction clinic in 2016, and began training practitioners in 2021. The Centre for Healing has since certified practitioners across more than thirty countries.
She is also the author of The Natural High: Secrets to Overcoming Instant Gratification and Finding Inner Peace.
"This is not another self-help book. It is a precise, compassionate, and scientifically grounded map for healing at the level where change actually lasts. Whether you are reading it for yourself, for your clients, or because you have simply sensed that healing ought to feel like more than this, you are in exactly the right place."
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