Dr. Steven Roth · D.M.D., KAP, CHt
Helping people transform anxiety, addiction, trauma, infertility, and life's greatest challenges through neuroscience, hypnotherapy, consciousness, and evidence-based mind-body practices.
A Different Kind of Clinician
Dr. Steven Roth is a clinician, speaker, hypnotherapist, and guide whose work bridges neuroscience, consciousness, psychology, and personal transformation.
For more than three decades he has practiced clinical medicine, sitting with thousands of patients in moments of real fear and real change. That experience shaped a simple conviction: the mind is not an obstacle to healing. It is the instrument of it. Today he works with individuals, couples, and families navigating anxiety, addiction, infertility, and trauma, offering a calm, structured, and deeply supportive environment grounded in evidence-based practice and guided by careful listening rather than prescription.
Thirty-plus years of clinical practice, with advanced certifications in hypnotherapy, NLP, and Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy.
Work that treats the nervous system, the subconscious, and the body as one connected system, never in isolation.
Keynotes and clinical presentations that translate the science of consciousness for professional and public audiences.
An expansive view of human potential, held to the standard of what neuroscience and clinical outcomes can support.
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A long-form conversation on Dr. Roth's path from three decades of clinical practice to pioneering the combination of hypnotherapy with psychedelic-assisted medicine, and his definition of success as work that feels indistinguishable from play.
Read MoreDr. Roth shares the practices behind his approach to mental wellness, from leaving the victim mentality behind to understanding the subconscious mind as the silent operating system running our lives.
Read MoreIn honor of his father, a decorated World War II Marine, Dr. Roth and his clinical team provided free care to military veterans, an initiative built to inspire practitioners across the country to serve those who served.
Read MoreA first-person media experience of Dr. Roth's clinical hypnotherapy, exploring how focused awareness helps people change patterns that willpower alone cannot reach.
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Keynotes & Clinical Presentations
Dr. Roth delivers keynotes that move audiences from curiosity to genuine shift, translating brainwave science, subconscious change, and the biology of stress into insight people can feel and use.
Signature Topics
Gaia Conference, Orlando · November 20, 2026. An extended 50-minute keynote to an audience of up to 1,000, exploring consciousness, the subconscious mind, and the science of bringing your future self into the present.
Live Group Hypnosis
Live group hypnosis is a guided experience in which Dr. Roth leads an entire room, from a boardroom to a candlelit long table, out of the noise of the thinking mind and into the calm, receptive states where real change begins. No theatrics. A clinical technique, delivered with warmth, that leaves people measurably calmer, clearer, and more connected than when they arrived.
H.A.K.T. · Hypnosis Assisted Ketamine Therapy
Ketamine is changing what is possible in mental health. Yet for some patients, the experience opens and closes without lasting change. Dr. Roth's work addresses the gap.
Research suggests roughly one in three ketamine patients do not achieve the outcome they came for. Not because the medicine failed, but because the neuroplasticity window it creates was never given direction.
H.A.K.T. pairs clinical hypnotherapy with the ketamine experience itself: guided preparation before the session, targeted subconscious work during the open window, and structured integration after. It is purposeful, clinically guided, and built around each patient's specific history, so emotional breakthroughs become lasting patterns rather than passing states. Certified in Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy, Dr. Roth partners directly with clinics and psychiatrists to bring this protocol to their patients.
Ketamine opens the window.
Hypnosis directs what comes through it.
The G.I.F.T., Guided Imagination for Transformation, is a short, powerful hypnosis experience created by Dr. Roth. Meditation quiets the mind. Hypnosis goes further: it guides your brain out of busy beta waves, through relaxed alpha, and into theta, the frequency where imagination becomes neurologically real and the subconscious opens to change. In seven minutes, you shift your emotional frequency instead of simply observing it.
Dr. Roth on the G.I.F.T. · Press play
The Extended G.I.F.T.
The Extended G.I.F.T. is the full-length experience: a complete guided descent designed for those ready to work with the subconscious at depth.
Where the free experience introduces the shift, the extended journey completes it. Ease anxiety at its origin rather than its surface. Find clarity that lasts beyond the session. Reconnect to a sense of purpose that stress had buried. Process emotion the nervous system has been holding for years. This is the recording Dr. Roth's private clients return to again and again.
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A Guided Inner Experience
Some of what we carry cannot be reasoned away. It has to be released. The Room of Forgiveness & Understanding is a guided hypnotic experience in which Dr. Roth leads you into an inner space where the hardest conversations of your life can finally be completed, and set down.
Resentment holds the brain in high-beta vigilance: the defended, fight-ready state where creativity narrows and the body cannot rest. Forgiveness is not just a moral act. It is a neurological one. As the mind moves toward understanding, brainwaves shift from beta into alpha and theta, the parasympathetic system engages, and old emotional memory can finally be reprocessed rather than relived.
People enter the Room carrying old resentments, strained relationships, grief, and the quiet weight of things unsaid. They leave with emotional freedom that shows up in the body first: deeper sleep, softer relationships, and a personal peace that no longer depends on anyone else's apology.
Healing what you carry changes how you carry everything else.
Private 1:1 Hypnosis
Group content inspires. Private work transforms. In a one-on-one session, everything is tailored to your history, your patterns, and your goals, so change can happen at the root instead of the surface.
90-Minute Customized Session · $400 · Via Zoom, Worldwide
In Their Words
Beta · Alpha · Theta · Gamma
Philosophy
Science and spirituality are not opposing forces. One helps explain the other.
Every state we call spiritual, stillness, forgiveness, insight, awe, has a signature in the brain. And every finding in neuroscience points back toward something the contemplative traditions have said for centuries: attention shapes experience, and experience shapes the body. Dr. Roth stands at that meeting point. He asks his clients to believe nothing on faith. He asks only that they become curious enough to look inward, with rigor, with guidance, and with the expectation that what they find can change.
His conviction, tested across thousands of clinical hours, is that life happens for us, not to us. Not as a platitude, but as a trainable orientation of the nervous system, one that releases the grip of worry and opens the door to everything else.
Healing begins when awareness meets action.
About Dr. Steven
Born in Miami Beach, Steven Roth began where most transformational careers do not: in clinical medicine. After earning his Bachelor of Science in Zoology from the University of Florida, where he first studied the biology of stress in living systems, he received his Doctor of Dental Medicine from Tufts University School of Dental Medicine in 1989 and built a thriving practice in the heart of downtown Miami.
He named it Relax and Smile, and he meant it. His governing philosophy was that every patient should leave feeling better, physically and mentally, than when they arrived. Over three decades of practice he became an award-winning clinician, recognized repeatedly by the Consumer Research Council of America for excellence in his field. But it was his patients' fear, not their treatment, that changed the direction of his life.
Searching for a way to help patients paralyzed by anxiety, Dr. Roth trained in clinical hypnosis, studying under the renowned hypnotherapist Dick Sutphen. What began as a tool for calming nerves became a revelation: he was eventually performing full clinical procedures using hypnosis alone, no anesthesia required. The subconscious mind, he realized, was the most under-used instrument in medicine. He went on to earn his certification as a clinical hypnotherapist and NLP Master, followed by dozens of advanced certifications in subconscious and mind-body modalities, and opened his hypnotherapy practice to help people far beyond the clinic: those living with anxiety, depression, addiction, chronic pain, and infertility.
Family has always sat at the center of the work. Dr. Roth supports individuals, couples, and families through their most difficult seasons, and his commitment to service extends into the community: in honor of his father, a decorated World War II Marine, he founded Operation Freedom Smiles, providing free clinical care to military veterans, an initiative covered by Miami's Community Newspapers and built to inspire practitioners nationwide.
In 2023, Dr. Roth traveled to Mitzpe Ramon, Israel, to earn his certification in Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy under Dr. Phil Wolfson, the creator of KAP. Recognizing that ketamine's open, trance-like states mirror those found in deep hypnosis, he developed H.A.K.T., Hypnosis Assisted Ketamine Therapy, and now partners with ketamine clinics and psychiatrists to improve patient outcomes. His clinical framework, The G.I.F.T., Guided Imagination for Transformation, weaves hypnosis, NLP, neurobiology, timeline work, and forgiveness therapy into a single method for moving people from survival states into elevated ones.
Today, Dr. Roth divides his time between Miami and Costa Rica, speaking internationally, presenting his clinical work to medical audiences, guiding private clients around the world, and writing his forthcoming book on the subconscious mind and transformation. His mission has never changed since his first day in practice: every person he works with should leave feeling better than when they arrived.
Doctor of Dental Medicine, Tufts University School of Dental Medicine
Opens his Miami practice, built on the philosophy that healing should feel calm
Discovers clinical hypnosis; begins formal hypnotherapy training under Dick Sutphen
Opens his hypnotherapy practice for anxiety, addiction, infertility, and chronic pain
Founds Operation Freedom Smiles, free care for military veterans
KAP certification in Israel under Dr. Phil Wolfson; develops H.A.K.T.
International speaker, creator of The G.I.F.T., author, and guide
Whatever brought you here, anxiety, a pattern you can't out-think, or simple curiosity about what your mind is capable of, the next step is a conversation.
Free Clarity Call
A short, unhurried conversation with Dr. Roth. Bring the challenge you're facing; leave with clarity on whether this work is right for you. Choose a time below and it's booked.
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