Centaurus, nice job getting Anya to accept your coaching. I actually had a First Officer ask me once to turn the automation (AP, AT, FD's) back ON during a visual departure because he was scared. Honest, true story! I was departing KLAS to the west and once above the terrain I clicked all three off. He sincerely asked me to turn it all back on because it was "scaring him".
I turned the Auto Thrust back on, that seems to be where most Airbus neophytes begin to lose it, and continued to fly raw data til level off in the flight levels. I only flew one pairing with that particular FO, so I can't state specifically on his regard, but for the most part I've seen that most AB pilots in that state of mind are actually fairly good hands on pilots; it's just that they were trained to be afraid to fly the AB without the electronic baby sitter.