Steve has worked at inpatient and outpatient treatment centers in Oregon, Wisconsin, and California. He was an ad hoc professor at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee for 10 years and served as the lead research therapist at the Center for Addiction and Behavioral Health Research in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Currently, Steve teaches in the Addiction Studies program and Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, California. He teaches class in Motivational Interviewing, Relapse Prevention, Dual Disorders, Group Facilitation and Leadership, Ethics and assists with the Field Work class.

Steve’s empathetic and solution-oriented approach has helped thousands of clients. His therapeutic orientation is informed by Motivational Interviewing, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy and the Family Systems approach. Steve believes that treatment for craving management and relapse prevention is an important key to success with substance abuse clients.