24/08/2026
I can't say enough good things about this book! Thank you Melissa Hiemann for writing this book and bringing Root Cause Therapy to the world!
As an RCT Practitioner, someone who has received and given numerous sessions of RCT, I know how amazing this work is. I have seen profound changes in my clients and myself. This book, though, helps bring it all together. Melissa explains how she arrived at creating RCT, the science behind it, the method itself, case studies, and so much more.
I highly recommend this book if you have been curious about Root Cause Therapy.
I leave you with a quote from the book that explains the essence of Root Cause Therapy:
"What I came to understand, through my own healing and through years of sitting with others theirs, is that the gap in conventional therapy is not a gap of care or skill. Most practitioners care deeply. Most are genuinely skilled.
The gap is structural.
It is built into approaches that work primarily at the level of the conscious mind-with thoughts, with language, with the narratives we tell about our experiences-while leaving the deeper levels of the system largely untouched.
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. The unconscious mind does not update its beliefs because the conscious mind has been persuaded that they are outdated. For lasting change to happen, we need to work at the level where the wound was originally created -in the body, in the nervous system, in the deep memory that predates language and sometimes even conscious recall.
This is what Root Cause Therapy does. That is the gap it was built to fill."
Melissa Heimen
Root Cause Therapy - A Method For True Lasting Change
