Next Generation Trading Psychology

​​I provide Trading Psychology interventions for the next generation of traders. For those who are insightful enough to understand that life patterns impact your profits. For those who are strong enough to be vulnerable and look deeply at themselves to work on what inhibits optimal trading performance.

​Financial growth and personal development come from understanding your life patterns and their impact on your decision-making in trading and everyday life. I use evidence-based interventions to help you overcome trading challenges and change life patterns that restrict your fiscal growth. Psychological interventions from the 80s and 90s have been proven ineffective in the long run. These models formed the basis of the old generation of trading psychology.

​With over 25,000 clinical hours of experience and cutting-edge 3rd wave behaviorism and adaptive information processing models, I will help you unlock your potential. We all have potential, but we must work hard to unleash it.

REAL TRADER. REAL PSYCHOTHERAPIST.

My name is Sean Sawyer, and I have been a Psychotherapist for nearly 20 years. Now I am a full-time Trader and a part-time psychotherapist. My career led me to specialize in trauma; I've worked in hospitals, the VA, outpatient clinics, universities, and private practice. Following my work with Performance Enhancement with Executives in 2010, I returned to Performance Enhancement with Traders. 

Whatever intervention you choose, my live workshops will elevate your natural skills and expose weaknesses to be addressed. Alternatively, you can refine your trading psychology skills one-on-one with me to build a psychological edge most traders overlook. There is reason for the 90% plus fail rate of traders. We examine life patterns, their roots, and how they drain your profits through this individualized work.

Contact me for your free consolation.

What’s the Problem?​​
We all have moments where emotions get the best of us; maybe we blow up at someone or get more worried than need be. We need to pay more attention leading up to the event. We let things build up, and regretful behaviors occur. The same happens in trading. We aren't aware of the impact of current life events, physical state, stress, or pervasive emotions like hope or anger growing, and its costs us.

​It's easy to lose yourself in the daily noise and bias versus working on having a clear state of mind so we can use our knowledge and tools to our full potential. Sometimes we don't have the psychological awareness or willingness to accept we can't clear our minds due to the reasons mentioned above and shouldn't trade. I show traders how to be more aware and in touch with their state of mind and body to make more effective trading decisions. I also show them what gets in the way of changing it. I help traders eliminate those "wtf was I thinking" moments after a trade. 

We start with an assessment to uncover how your trading experiences and life patterns inhibit your ability to trade at your peak level. ​We'll expose why you're struggling with trading rules and allowing ineffective emotion management to drain profits. We identify cognitive dissonance, the difference between doing what you know you should and what you actually do. For example, knowing it's wise to wait for a proper trade setup but taking a lesser setup anyway.

We will make an action plan to minimize cognitive dissonance. If you want to get deep, we can reprocess the life experiences that fuel these patterns utilizing EMDR, improving your trading and quality of life.  

​Managing Expectations:​
Traders often enter trading expecting to be profitable quickly or get sold hope with images of riches, profits, or promised a secret trading formula. There is no holy grail. This marketing creates unrealistic expectations and drives us to tilt. Traders find themselves angry, blaming, regretting, repeating patterns, or cycling through emotional highs and lows. Many find themselves desperately fighting to make back losses, only give it all back. The shame and frustration build and allow mindlessness and emotions to take over.

Interventions:
​​​You can't leave your personal history at the door. How you deal with your history will dictate your success. I utilize Functional Contextualism, Adaptive Information Processing, and E.M.D.R. Therapy to highlight, educate, intervene, and change the patterns costing you money. 

​Freedom from FOMO, chasing, revenge, hopium, overtrading, loss aversion, gambling, bored trades, over trading, over-leveraged trades, holding losers, and ending trades early.