Steve Mensing, a counselor in private practice in Philadelphia and developer of the Emoclear emotional techniques, is an acknowledged expert on emotional processing, indigenous techniques, and meditations from around the world. An author of 18 books including western novels and an amateur astronomy book, Steve wrote many self-help/psychology books such as "The Life Skills Self-Helpapedia", "Become Your Own Counselor", "Getting Shrunk Without a Shrink", and "Mind Surfing in the Now". Steve has appeared on numerous television and talk radio shows. His emoclear.com is a popular self-help emotional processing website with a global following.

Steve has led a rich and varied life working during his early adulthood as a bartender, crisis intake worker, a drilling supervisor in an open pit copper mine, ranch hand, railroad tracklayer, a mindfulness teacher, and welfare case worker. Since the mid 80's, when he returned to school and completed a masters degree in counseling, Steve worked as a counselor and created a wide variety of emotional techniques and exercises many of which are featured at Emoclear.com