The Root Cause Reset

Relationships rarely fall apart overnight.
More often, they slowly drift into patterns of conflict, emotional distance, and broken trust that feel impossible to repair.

In this episode of The Root Cause Reset, Dr. Trish Schneider sits down with Dan Sneider, a private practice couples therapist and founder of Growth and Gratitude Therapy.
Dan specializes in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) — one of the most research-supported frameworks for helping couples move from conflict and disconnection back to trust, intimacy, and emotional safety.

Drawing from both clinical research and personal experience as a trauma survivor, parent, athlete, and recovering perfectionist, Dan shares practical strategies couples can use to rebuild relationships that feel stuck.

Together they explore:
• Why couples get trapped in cycles of conflict
• The emotional patterns beneath arguments
• How broken trust and betrayal can be repaired
• The science behind emotional intimacy
• Proven techniques to reconnect emotionally and physically

If your relationship feels stuck, distant, or strained by stress, this episode offers a hopeful and practical path forward.

What happens when the very medications meant to help your mental health begin harming your body and brain?
In this powerful episode of The Root Cause Reset, Dr. Trish Schneider sits down with Amber Cummings, holistic mental health coach and founder of Mental Health Rebels.

Amber shares her extraordinary journey of healing after 22 years on psychiatric medications, including antidepressants and benzodiazepines, followed by a serious autoimmune condition affecting her brain.

Through her own recovery process—combining daily healing practices, transpersonal psychology, shamanic traditions, and deep personal exploration—Amber began rebuilding her mental, physical, and spiritual health.

Today she helps others reclaim their freedom through perspective shifts, nervous system practices, energy work, and soul-centered healing.

Together they explore:
• The long-term impact of psychiatric medications on the brain
• Reclaiming agency in mental health recovery
• Moving energy and trauma through the body
• The role of spiritual and somatic practices in healing
• Why true healing often requires questioning dominant narratives

If you’ve ever felt trapped by a diagnosis, medication plan, or mental health label, this episode offers a bold and hopeful perspective on what healing can look like beyond the conventional system.

What if midlife isn’t a breakdown — but a threshold?
In this episode of The Root Cause Reset, Dr. Trish Schneider sits down with Alison Litchfield, who works with the whole person — body, mind, and spirit — through somatic practice, psycho-emotional awareness, fascia work, posture, breath, and nervous system intelligence.

Alison views physical symptoms not as problems to suppress, but as communication. She believes the body carries lived experience — stress, grief, resilience, adaptation — and that true healing begins when we stop overriding signals and start listening.

Together, they explore:
Why midlife is often when “the old ways stop working”
The nervous system’s role in physical symptoms
Fascia as stored experience

Why symptom management stops working in midlife
Embodied practice as a path to sustainable healing
Listening to the body as an intelligent system

If you’re in a season where pushing harder no longer works — and your body seems to be asking for something deeper — this conversation will feel like permission.

If you’ve been diagnosed with SIBO — or suspect you have it — but keep relapsing, this episode is for you.

In this episode of The Root Cause Reset, Dr. Trish Schneider sits down with Kristen Blake, founder of Kristen Blake Wellness, an extremely high-touch functional medicine practice that refuses to let clients fall through the cracks.
Kristen and her team walk alongside clients every step of the way — from biweekly appointments to 24/7 message support, coordination with specialists, referrals, research, and ongoing care.

Today, they dive into one of the most misunderstood gut diagnoses: SIBO (Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth).

Together, they explore:
Why SIBO is often a symptom — not the root
The hidden drivers behind recurring gut issues
Nervous system dysfunction and digestive motility
Hormones, stress, immune health, and structural causes
Why quick protocols often fail long-term
What true root-cause gut healing actually looks like
If you’re tired of temporary gut fixes and want to understand what your body is signaling, this episode will help you connect the dots.

What if the peace you’re searching for isn’t something you need to earn but something your nervous system needs to remember?
In this episode of The Root Cause Reset, Dr. Trish Schneider is joined by Paty “Mariposa” Hernandez, a holistic healer and clinically trained social worker with over 20 years of experience bridging traditional mental health care and energy healing.
Together, they explore how chronic stress, trauma, and over-functioning disconnect us from our intuition and how simple, accessible nervous system practices can gently shift us out of survival mode and back into inner peace.
Paty shares how she blends clinical social work, somatic healing, and trauma-informed Reiki to support therapists, healers, and sensitive leaders in regulating their nervous systems, reclaiming their intuition, and leading from an aligned, soul-rooted place.
This episode is especially for those who are high-capacity, heart-centered, and deeply intuitive but exhausted, dysregulated, or disconnected from themselves.
If you’ve been doing “all the right things” but still don’t feel settled inside, this conversation will help you understand why and show you how to come home to safety again.