Mr. Sawyer earned his MSSW from the University of Wisconsin in 1980.  He 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 Project Pathfinder, Inc., a founding board member and past chapter president of the Minnesota Chapter of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (MNATSA), and is a past board member and chair of the Minnesota Board of Social Work.

In his clinical practice he provides clinical and consultation services to individuals, families and organizations.  Over the past 40 years he has assessed and treated hundreds of men who have committed sexual crimes and has supervised or been involved in the treatment of several thousand men in sexual offender treatment.

For more than 20 years he served as a consultant to catholic religious orders on matters of sexual perpetrator assessment, and sexual abuse prevention and management.  He has provided clinical supervision and training services for the State of Minnesota since 2013 and has provided clinical supervision to more than 40 clinicians.  He has consulted with civil commitment programs, and provided full day trainings and webinars for state agencies and clinicians.

Mr. Sawyer is an experienced public speaker for the media and professionals.  He  has given lectures and trainings locally and nationally to public and professional groups about sexual offender treatment, group therapy and sexual abuse prevention.  He has published more than 20 articles, workbooks, and book chapters on topics ranging from a program for men who use prostitutes, sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, group therapy with adult sexual offenders, sex dysfunction in sex offenders, and sex offender treatment program outcome research.