Steve started exploring the world of psychotherapy at age 20. He began a meditation practice at age 28 and has studied the internal martial arts of tai chi and xing yi over the past 25 years. He has explored the psychological and spiritual dimensions of the psyche as an individual, as a partner in relationship, as a father, a therapist, a program developer, and an author. In Romancing the Shadow, the book he co-authored with Connie Zweig in 1997, he refers to the soul as the psychological dimension and to the self as the spiritual dimension of the psyche.