Dr. Mitchell Roth
Licensed Mental Health Counselor & Psychotherapist
Dr. Mitchell Roth is a Florida Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and author. Psychotherapy is his second career, having made his early career in the law.
Dr. Mitchell Roth, aka Dr. Mitch
Dr. Mitch Has Years of Experience as a Psychotherapist, Lawyer, Student, and Teacher.
Dr. Mitchell Roth, aka Dr. Mitch, is a Florida Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and author. Psychotherapy is his second career, having made his early career in the law. As a psychotherapist, he has been trained in and uses an eclectic mix from multiple therapeutic styles, e.g. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectic Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Schema Therapy, Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFST), Interpersonal Therapy, Emotion Focused Couples Counseling (EFCT), Motivational Interviewing, Mindful Behavior Therapy (MBT), Psychodynamic Therapy, and Humanistic Therapies. He brings to his clinical practice certain unique tools, such as Rebirthing Breathwork, various meditation styles and mindfulness practices, Energy Psychology (tapping), deep knowledge and experience with 12-Step Programs, and Emotional Transformational Therapy.
Dr. Mitch Before His Psychotherapy Practice
Dr. Mitch practiced law through 2008. As a practicing lawyer Dr. Mitch practiced in areas of business, real estate, personal injury, medical malpractice, and estate planning. He lectured extensively and taught law at the law school level.
He reinvented himself through extensive schooling before he opened his practice at Roth Mental Health in April 2016. In the State of Florida, qualification as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor requires completion of a two-year master’s degree program. Licensing requires completion of additional post-graduate courses, passage of the National Clinical Mental Health Counseling Examination (NCMHCE), and two years of supervision by a licensed supervisor while working as a Registered Mental Health Counseling Intern (RMHCI) during which time the intern must have clocked at least 1,500 face-to-face hours treating patients.
Before graduating from his master’s degree program, Dr. Mitch worked for one year as a pre-graduate intern in the Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP) and the Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) at Family Behavioral Health Center (FBHC) in Delray Beach, Florida. There he worked with patients from 15 – 60 years old under the supervision of a licensed psychotherapist supervisor and working together with colleagues consisting of other licensed psychotherapists, pre-graduate interns, the clinical director, and the psychiatrist for FBHC.
Following graduation from Lynn University with his master’s degree, Dr. Mitch obtained a full-time position as a primary therapist at the Lighthouse Recovery Institute (LHRI) in Delray Beach, Florida. As a primary therapist, he had full-case responsibility for patients assigned to his care. LHRI is an alcohol and drug rehabilitation program offering PHP, IOP, and outpatient programs.
Clinical Psychology PsyD
With an unquenchable thirst for knowledge and a passion to help others, Dr. Mitch continued to add to his expertise. Beginning in December 2014, he began his doctorate degree at California Southern University. After defending his dissertation in early 2018, he received his doctorate. His dissertation focused on understanding causes and treatments for the problem of chronic overeating, resulting in medical obesity, typically meaning a body mass index of 30 or higher .
His passionate interest in the subject began because he himself struggled with obesity for most of his childhood and adulthood. He began his personal path in recovery beginning at the age of 36, after yo-yoing by losing 50 pounds on one diet only to gain back 60 pounds only to lose another 50 pounds on another diet only to gain back 60 pounds again, etc. Ultimately, he suffered a heart attack at age 39. Since beginning his journey of recovery at age 36, he slowly lost 85 pounds and has kept it off since. These experiences led to the soon to be published book, Obesity – Our Weighty Problem & Its Cure.
Juris Doctor & Adjunct Professor
During his 30 years of law practice, Dr. Mitch taught law at the law school level. Because of his Juris Doctor degree, and because of his outstanding academic record in psychology at Lynn, Dr. Mitch had received an appointment as an adjunct professor at Lynn University. At Lynn, he taught courses in Abnormal Psychology and in Learning Theory to undergraduate students, and in Law and Ethics at the graduate school level.
Before deciding to leave the field of law, Dr. Mitch gained experience and expertise through more than 25 years of involvement as a co-founder of the Men’s Center of Los Angeles. For the Men’s Center, Dr. Mitch served as legal counsel for a time, on its Board of Directors, and assisted co-founder and clinical director, Stephen Johnson, Ph.D., at numerous two-day and four-day retreats and at one-day practicums. Over this period, he had the opportunity to be trained by Dr. Johnson to teach and to facilitate Rebirthing Breathwork. During this time, he was also able to participate in and assist with anger reduction workshops.
In response to his long-time interest in mental health and personal growth, Dr. Mitch served for four years on the Board of Directors of the Center for the Improvement of Child Caring at the invitation of its clinical director, Dr. Kerby Alvy.
This same interest in mental health and spiritual growth led Dr. Mitch to work with Sedona Cahill, a Shaman of the Native-American tradition. Over a four-year period working with her, Dr. Mitch completed two Vision Quests and one Death Lodge. He sat in numerous sweat lodges with the Men’s Center, praying together with the other participants.
Dr. Mitch Never Stops Learning
Dr. Mitch was always finding ways to offer more help to his patients. He completed five levels of specialized training in Emotional Transformation Therapy (ETT) and assisted in teaching Levels 1 & 2. A sixth level of training was a specialized training in using ETT in the treatment of addictions.
He has completed CEU courses in Emotion Focused Therapy, Emotion Focused Couples Therapy, and certification programs in the treatment of anxiety and Comprehensive Energy Psychology, to name but a few.
Author
Dr. Mitch is not only a doctor of the mind, but some may also consider him a doctor of taxes! He has been deeply troubled by the growing political divisions in the United States and the world. Because of his knowledge of politics deepened by his college major at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and his knowledge of law gained through his study for his Juris Doctor degree at St. John’s University Law School and 30 years of law practice and teaching, Dr. Mitch decided that a fundamental problem that is being largely ignored is in the way we pay for government and its services.
Dr. Mitch’s book, A Taxing Problem, looks deeply into our tax problem. It explains how and why we pay for government services the way we do today.It examines what universally accepted moral authorities would suggest as a just way to pay for government services. It uses that analysis to propose a system of taxation rooted in justice that would eliminate all ways that government raises its revenue except by imposing a very small annual tax on net worth or wealth. It demonstrates by doing the math how such an approach could pay for every level of government and thereby distribute the cost of maintaining our government and its programs fairly, in direct proportion tothe economic benefits enjoyed from the role of government in maintainingour social order and stable economy.
Dr. Mitch’s next book, Obesity, Our Weighty Problem & Its Cure, is in the process of being published by Penguin Authors. It is expected to be available by summer.
Also in process is his book, A Fix for an Addicted World. 12-Steps From the Inside Out.
Finally, Dr. Mitch has developed a two-day training course in improving marketing and sales through understanding a little-known field of psychology which he calls Lego Psychology. Any marketing or sales organization interested in booking a training can do so by contacting Dr. Mitch by email. The name of the course is Lego Psychology: Building Blocks to More Sales.
Other work by Dr. Mitch includes development of a YouTube channel on which Dr. Mitch posts information about therapeutic approaches and other information you might like to learn from his career as a psychotherapist. He invites all that have an interest in learning about diverse topics of interest to Dr. Mitch to subscribe to his channel.