REAL TRADER.
REAL PSYCHOTHERAPIST.
I'm Sean Sawyer; I've been a Psychotherapist for over two decades and a full-time trader since 2017. I help people improve their performance and their lives.
Applying my extensive clinical experience to the trading business gives me unique insight on trading psychology. The need to manage risk exists because of threat. Trading presents a threat every time you execute, whether you're conscious of it or not, the threat against your capital is a threat against building the life you want for yourself and your family.
Threat impacts executive function. Executive function enables us to plan, organize, focus attention, regulate emotions, and make decisions based on goals. The consistent threat, mild or severe, can keep us stuck on repeat, fighting market realities, fleeing from our emotions, or frozen with indecision versus executing our plans.
Threat impacts executive function. Executive function enables us to plan, organize, focus attention, regulate emotions, and make decisions based on goals. The consistent threat, mild or severe, can keep us stuck on repeat, fighting market realities, fleeing from our emotions, or frozen with indecision versus executing our plans.
Ineffective threat response is the psychological root of unprofessional trading behavior.
Early in my career, I specialized in psychological trauma. As I continued my professional development through various clientele and settings, clinics, hospitals, the VA, Universities, and private practice, I always saw a common thread impacting success and quality of life - how individuals manage real and perceived threats. Now, I see it consistently impacting traders.
Understanding these processes within ourselves, their origin, pattern breaking, and improving threat resiliency is the difference between failing, surviving, and thriving in the markets.
Understanding these processes within ourselves, their origin, pattern breaking, and improving threat resiliency is the difference between failing, surviving, and thriving in the markets.
My rare combination of clinical expertise and trading experience offers a unique perspective on solving trading psychology issues.
My workshops will elevate your natural skills and expose weaknesses. You learn to use your values to create a new, powerful approach to risk management. Understand how your life experiences and nervous system affect every trading decision. Cultivate patience and acceptance needed for longevity in retail trading. Learn evidence-based behavioral skills to recognize and eliminate unprofessional trading behaviors.
If you're ready to dive deeper and refine your trading psychology skills one-on-one, I will help you build a psychological edge most traders overlook. One that comes from learning excellent decision-management skills by looking at your life experiences and how they impact every trading decision.
Our past shows up at the opening bell every day. It's our responsibility to understand how and act accordingly. We will examine life patterns, their roots, and how they diminish your performance.
If you're ready to dive deeper and refine your trading psychology skills one-on-one, I will help you build a psychological edge most traders overlook. One that comes from learning excellent decision-management skills by looking at your life experiences and how they impact every trading decision.
Our past shows up at the opening bell every day. It's our responsibility to understand how and act accordingly. We will examine life patterns, their roots, and how they diminish your performance.
My approach is for serious people willing to accept weakness, build on strengths, learn to leverage emotions to their advantage and seize the opportunity to grow.