Stephen has been interested in personal growth and bringing out the best of people's potential for well over 40 years. Even as a computer programmer and systems analyst since the beginning of the '80s, his aim has always been to improve the quality of life for himself and others. This interest led him to learn about psychology and growth techniques, resulting in his becoming an NLP Practitioner (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) in 1993.

At the beginning of 1994, he came into contact with Reiki, attending a First Degree Reiki seminar run by a Reiki Master of The Reiki Network® with his parents. Seeing Reiki's improvements to the whole family, they quickly went on to the Second Degree. It became apparent to him that Reiki was one of the best tools for the non-invasive support of personal growth that he'd encountered, so he applied for training as a Reiki Master within the Network. He finished his year's training mid-1996 and now gives treatments and teaches Reiki in English and German in England, Switzerland and Spain.

In 2004, he began a training course as an adult educator, which he completed in the following year. As part of his training, he created the written training concept that The Reiki Network® now uses.

In 2013, he published his first self-help book and is now a full-time writer. He began working on a follow-up self-help book as soon as the previous one was published. However, he has also started writing fiction, with genres including science fiction, space opera, fantasy, urban fantasy, paranormal, magical realism, horror, fairy tales, fairy stories, slipstream, interstitial, noir, detective fiction, action, thriller, humour, YA, and children's stories (often more than one genre in any particular story). His first science fiction novel, "Shuttlers", has been published, and the first of five dark urban fantasy anthologies appears on the 21st of January, 2022. He is presently working on another five anthologies and three novels.