| About Steve Sawyer, MSW, LCSW | |
Steve is the former director of one of Milwaukee’s largest outpatient mental health clinics for the last three years. He works with intensively resistant youth and adults with alcohol or drug addictions, corrections placements, and residential treatment placements. His experience is based in in-home therapy models, outpatient settings, and residential treatment placements. Steve’s 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 utilizes many unique forms of interventions. These include somatic models, traumatic memory reprocessing, trauma intervention models, experiential therapy, and cognitive behavioral intervention. His most successful intervention is a unique verbal healing technique adopted from the Maori people of New Zealand.
Steve’s teaching focus comes directly from his strong connection with Nature. He utilizes the metaphors which he has derived from many years immersed in the wilderness. Steve is extremely well versed in the art of wilderness survival, and his strongest passion is the study of wild plants both edible and medicinal. His skills in the wilderness have been tested in many environments, from the deserts of Nevada to the high mountains and tundra of Alaska. |
Steve’s Teaching Metaphors include:
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Steve has successfully published one manual titled “Facilitating AODA Groups in Schools,” which is a unique text with group agendas that match the resistance level of the group with the group intervention. Steve also has a manuscript titled “Crossing the River: Metaphors for Intervening With Resistant Youth,” which he hopes will be published within the next year. He is also a core developer and writer of the HeartMath Interventions Program. 
