About
Steven Sawyer, MSSW, is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker and is founder and President of Sawyer Solutions, LLC, a private clinical and consulting practice. He was a founding board member and Executive Director of a local non-profit treatment agency in Minnesota where he served for 17 years, a founding board member and past chapter president of the Minnesota Chapter of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (MNATSA), a past board member of ATSA, and is a past board member and chair of the Minnesota Board of Social Work. He currently provides clinical and consultation services to individuals, families and organizations. He serves as a consultant to catholic religious orders on matters of sexual abuse prevention, and management and personnel issues, and provides clinical supervision services for State employees. He has given lectures and trainings locally and nationally to public and professional groups about sexual offender treatment and sexual abuse prevention. He has published more than 18 articles and book chapters on a program for men who use prostitutes, sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, group therapy with adults who sexually offend, sex dysfunction in sex offenders, and treatment program outcome research. Over the past 33 years he has facilitated or observed more than 4000 hours of group therapy, has assessed and treated hundreds of men who have committed sexual crimes, and has supervised the treatment of several thousand men in sexual offender treatment.
Publications
- Your Personal History
- Group Therapy With Sexual Abusers
- Getting the Most From Group
- Who Am I and Why Am I in Treatment?
- Why Did I Do It Again & How Can I Stop?
- Enhancing Empathy
- The Safer Society Handbook of Sexual Abuser Assessment and Treatment: Chapter 6 – Facilitating Group-Centered Treatment Groups
Trainings
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- Creating High-Functioning Treatment Groups for Adults Who Have Sexually Abused
- Co-Facilitation in Group Therapy: Foundations for Effective Sexual Offense Treatment
- Group Therapy for Adults Who Have Sexually Abused
- RNR and the Power of Preparation and Motivation for Group-Based Treatment
- Clients’ Personal Histories – Collecting Helpful Information