REAL TRADER. REAL PSYCHOTHERAPIST.
I'm Sean, a Psychotherapist for over 19 years and now a Full-time Options Trader and Part-Time Trade Psych Coach. I utilize Performance Psychology, Mindfulness, and Behavioral and Linguistic Techniques to help you understand and overcome your trading struggles. We all carry our life patterns into Trading. Understanding their impact on decision-making is the ultimate edge. My career took me from Hospitals to the VA to Outpatient Clinics and Universities to Private Practice.
I'm Sean, a Psychotherapist for over 19 years and now a Full-time Options Trader and Part-Time Trade Psych Coach. I utilize Performance Psychology, Mindfulness, and Behavioral and Linguistic Techniques to help you understand and overcome your trading struggles. We all carry our life patterns into Trading. Understanding their impact on decision-making is the ultimate edge. My career took me from Hospitals to the VA to Outpatient Clinics and Universities to Private Practice.
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Trade Psych Coaching
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. It’s because we aren't paying enough attention leading up to the event. We let things build up. I show Traders how to flip that switch, preventing those “wtf was I thinking” moments during or after a trade.
We start with a Psych 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, applying your knowledge intraday, and allowing emotions to influence executions.
We identify cognitive dissonance, the difference between doing what you know you should do and what you do—for example, knowing it's best to wait for the next trade but taking the current trade anyway.
We will make an action plan to minimize cognitive dissonance or, if you want to get deep, process the life experiences that fuel these patterns.
We all have moments where emotions get the best of us; maybe we blow up at someone or get more worried than need be. It’s because we aren't paying enough attention leading up to the event. We let things build up. I show Traders how to flip that switch, preventing those “wtf was I thinking” moments during or after a trade.
We start with a Psych 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, applying your knowledge intraday, and allowing emotions to influence executions.
We identify cognitive dissonance, the difference between doing what you know you should do and what you do—for example, knowing it's best to wait for the next trade but taking the current trade anyway.
We will make an action plan to minimize cognitive dissonance or, if you want to get deep, process the life experiences that fuel these patterns.
Managing Expectations:
Traders have been sold hope. We see profit porn and think we should be able to turn a few grand into a million bucks. It’s bullshit. These unrealistic expectations create beliefs about how we “should” win trades, comparing ourselves to others and psyching ourselves out until we are on tilt.
We might find ourselves getting angry or blaming others, regretting, repeating costly patterns, or cycling through emotional highs and lows. Some find themselves desperately fighting to make back losses, only give it all back. The shame and frustration build and activate maximum emotionality. Not good.
Traders have been sold hope. We see profit porn and think we should be able to turn a few grand into a million bucks. It’s bullshit. These unrealistic expectations create beliefs about how we “should” win trades, comparing ourselves to others and psyching ourselves out until we are on tilt.
We might find ourselves getting angry or blaming others, regretting, repeating costly patterns, or cycling through emotional highs and lows. Some find themselves desperately fighting to make back losses, only give it all back. The shame and frustration build and activate maximum emotionality. Not good.
Interventions:
The behaviors mentioned above come from life patterns that manifest in Trading. You can’t leave your personal history at the door. How you deal with them will dictate your success. I utilize Schema-Focused Therapy, ACT, and E.M.D.R. Therapy to highlight, educate, intervene, and change the patterns costing you money.
Freedom from FOMO, revenge trading, hoping, and swinging bad trades is possible. We use your values to guide us while shedding problematic life patterns manifesting in your trading patterns.
The behaviors mentioned above come from life patterns that manifest in Trading. You can’t leave your personal history at the door. How you deal with them will dictate your success. I utilize Schema-Focused Therapy, ACT, and E.M.D.R. Therapy to highlight, educate, intervene, and change the patterns costing you money.
Freedom from FOMO, revenge trading, hoping, and swinging bad trades is possible. We use your values to guide us while shedding problematic life patterns manifesting in your trading patterns.