Steve Sawyer’s career path has been based on working with intensively resistant youth and adults with alcohol or drug addictions, corrections placements, and residential treatment placements. His most recent career project has been the development and management of a therapeutic wilderness program, whose interventions are intensively focused on reshaping a youth’s interaction with his/her whole life.

Steve’s teaching focus comes directly from his strong connection with Nature. He utilizes metaphors derived from many years immersed in the wilderness. These include:

• Understanding adolescent development	• Understanding teens and marijuana
• Intervention for resistant youth	• Treatment boundaries
• Trauma and somatic stimulation	• Affect management
• ODD	• Building emotional literacy
• Forming client relationships	• Drug addictionand progression
• Working in treatment teams

Steve has published a manual entitled “Facilitating APDA Groups in Schools,” and also has a manuscript titled “Crossing the River: Metaphors for Intervening With Resistant Youth,” to be published within the next year.

Learn more about his upcoming training/seminars, books, and upcoming events. Or contact Steve directly about his interventions and training opportunities.