Most trading psychology fails because it addresses the wrong problem.
You don’t need another strategy. You don’t need more discipline. You need a nervous system that can function effectively under stress.
I’m Sean Sawyer, MS. Full-time trader since 2018 and psychotherapist with 22 years of clinical experience, 17 years practicing EMDR.
I don’t give trading advice. I address the nervous system patterns that prevent your strategy from being executed when it matters most.
When you freeze on valid setups, engage in revenge trading, or exit winners too early, that’s not a failure of willpower. That’s your body taking over. Your nervous system detects danger before you’re consciously aware and runs automatic protective responses that completely override your trading rules.
Standard trading psychology treats this as if you need more information: here’s what you should do; now do it harder. But skills you learn when you’re calm don’t work when you’re stressed.
Here’s what actually works:
I utilize real-time market activation during sessions to identify the threat responses influencing your trading behavior. Then I use a rare combination of clinical expertise and time in the chair as a trader to retrain those responses at the source—not through willpower, through neurobiological recalibration.
This works with defended traders who stay intellectual during standard therapy. Traders whose anxiety stems from pre-cognitive threat detection, not information deficits. Traders who’ve read the books, tried the routines, and still give back winning days.
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PERFORMANCE DIAGNOSTIC
We’ll identify the specific pattern bleeding your P&L—whether that’s freezing on setups, exiting winners too early, revenge trading after losses, or getting paralyzed when you scale size.
I’ll get a read on what schemas are at play, how rigid they are, and what path makes sense for you.
By the end of the call:
My assessment of how deep it goes and what’s driving it
Clear picture of which nervous system pattern is costing you money
Recommendation: 1:1 work, workshop, self-help approach, or something outside what I offer
If we’re not a good fit, I’ll tell you.
I WORK WITH TWO TYPES OF TRADERS:
Profitable traders hemorrhaging edge to emotional volatility.
You’ve built an edge, but emotional volatility keeps eroding it. We identify the physiological and emotional patterns that trigger impulsive exits, revenge trades, and overreactions, and retrain your system to stay regulated under stress.
Struggling traders who can’t stay consistent.
You understand your setups. What breaks down isn’t your strategy, it’s your state. FOMO, tilt, overtrading, paralysis, these are nervous system responses tied to long-standing schemas, not failures of discipline. We work at the level where those loops actually live.
What We Work On
Traders don’t sabotage their success due to lack of knowledge—they do so because their nervous systems and beliefs react faster than their established rules.
Here’s what’s actually happening:
Your nervous system is executing protective programs that made sense once but now sabotage your edge. You take profits early because relief feels safer than uncertainty. You chase losses to avoid the shame of being wrong. You freeze on valid setups or panic when size increases because your system interprets risk as threat.
These aren’t discipline failures. They’re physiological responses that bypass your conscious trading rules entirely.
Here’s what we retrain:
When you learn to interpret your internal signals as accurately as you read the market, execution stops being emotional firefighting. You recognize threat responses before they hijack your process. You manage state transitions instead of fighting through them. Your nervous system begins to support your edge rather than override it.
This is calibration work, not willpower work. We’re teaching your system new responses to the conditions trading creates.
Two ways to work with me:
Performance Pivot Protocol (PPP):
5-week live structured workshop for traders ready to address execution blocks systematically.
Weekly group sessions + workbook + assessment tools.
Cohorts limited to 15 traders.
1:1 Sessions:
Individualized sessions using in vivo activation and neurological processing. For complex patterns that require tailored intervention.
Limited availability. 4-week minimum commitment.
WHO I’VE WORKED WITH:
I’ve worked with over 100 traders, ranging from struggling part-timers to six-figure futures and options traders. The common thread isn’t their P&L; it’s that they all reached a ceiling where technical edge wasn’t enough.
Their nervous systems were making decisions faster than their rules could execute.
We fixed that.
EMDR for Trading Performance
Past losses stop creating avoidance. Victories feel intentional instead of lucky. Managing larger positions doesn’t trigger panic.
READY TO STOP GIVING BACK YOUR PSYCHOLOGICAL EDGE?
BOOK YOUR FREE 30-MINUTE PERFORMANCE DIAGNOSTIC
Join traders who’ve stopped letting emotional volatility override their technical analysis.
Stop losing money to nervous system responses you didn’t know you were running.