Overview

What if the reason you can't change isn't a lack of willpower - it's that no one has ever helped you get to the root? Most healing approaches work at the surface. They address thoughts, behaviours, and symptoms - without ever reaching the place where those patterns were formed: deep in the nervous system, held in the body, encoded before you even had words for what happened. Root-Cause Therapy is different. Developed by Melissa Hiemann after years of clinical practice and her own profound personal healing, RCT is a hybrid methodology that combines somatic therapy, regression, breathwork, inner child healing, and coaching into a single structured framework - one that doesn't just manage symptoms, but finds and resolves the root event that created them. In this book, you will discover: Why insight alone doesn't create change - and what has to happen instead How childhood experiences become lifelong patterns through the body's survival mechanisms The science behind why RCT works, from neuroscience and epigenetics to the body's electromagnetic field How emotions drive behaviour - and why working at the level of thought is rarely enough The complete RCT framework: session structure, muscle testing, the Testing Sheet, regression, and future-self work Specialised protocols for anxiety, depression, grief, physical illness, generational trauma, relationship patterns, and addiction Real practitioner case studies showing profound shifts - often within just a few sessions Written for healers, coaches, therapists, and anyone who has ever felt stuck despite years of trying, this book offers both a complete clinical framework and a deeply human account of what healing actually looks like from the inside. Melissa speaks from lived experience - as someone who overcame addiction, trauma, and self-sabotage through this work - and from a decade of training practitioners across the world who now deliver RCT in their own practices. ""I got more out of one session than ten years of therapy."" - RCT client Whether you are a practitioner looking for the missing piece, or a person who has tried everything and still can't seem to shift, Root-Cause Therapy offers something rare: a clear, compassionate path to the place where real change begins. It is never too late to heal at the root.

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Author Information

Melissa Hiemann is a therapist, coach, and Co-Founder of The Centre for Healing - an internationally recognised online education company pioneering trauma-informed therapies since 2016. She is an IICT, ICAHP and IAOTH Internationally Certified Therapist, Coach, and Trainer, and the creator of Root-Cause Therapy and Trauma-Informed Manifestation Coaching, both of which are now taught and practised by certified practitioners around the world. Drawing on her own lived experience of overcoming addiction, mental health struggles, and complex trauma, Melissa has dedicated her career to addressing the root cause of suffering rather than managing its symptoms. Together with her partner Ryan, she has built a multimillion-dollar training organisation with over 75,000 students globally. She is also the author of The Natural High: How to Overcome Instant Gratification and Find Inner Peace. Melissa lives in Australia and continues to train practitioners worldwide through The Centre for Healing.

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