Next Generation Trading Psychology

​​I provide Trading Psychology interventions for the next generation of traders. For those insightful enough to understand your life patterns impact both your trading and your profits, for those strong enough to be vulnerable and look deeply at themselves to work on what inhibits optimal trading performance.
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Financial growth and personal development come from understanding your life patterns and the impact they have on your decision-making in trading and in everyday life. To help you overcome trading challenges and change life patterns that restrict your fiscal growth, I use evidence-based interventions, meaning we know they work. Psychological interventions from the 80s and 90s have been demonstrated to be ineffective in the long run. These models formed the basis of the old generation of trading psychology.
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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 need to 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. 

Contact me for your free consolation.

Whatever trading edge you choose, the Four-Step Sound Psych Trading Edge will elevate your natural skills and expose weaknesses to be addressed. Alternatively, you can refine your trade psychology skills one-on-one with me for an 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.

What’s the Problem?
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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. The same happens in trading. We aren't aware of subtle stress, or hope and anger growing. We have so many things to pay attention to and it's easy to lose yourself in the action and noise of the day. I show traders how to be more aware and in touch with their nervous system. I also show them what it's telling them intraday, along with 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 emotions to drain profits when they could be adding to them. We identify cognitive dissonance, the difference between doing what you know you should do and what you do—for example, knowing it's wise 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, we can reprocess the life experiences that fuel these patterns, not only improving your trading but your quality of life.    

​Managing Expectations::
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Many traders have been sold hope, with promises of riches.. This creates unrealistic expectations, and drives us to tilt. Traders find themselves getting 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 allowing mindlessness and emotions to take over.

​Interventions:
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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.