Licensed therapist Jason Wasser combines hypnosis, addiction work, and sports psychology into one approach, tracing everything back to trauma and self-limiting beliefs. His own journey from scholarship student to successful entrepreneur became a therapeutic tool that helps him serve clients better.
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What a great question. And, and it's funny, because that's something that I, a few years ago, had to explain. Because, you know, when you do see this, and you see someone who's like, wow, this person has way too many specialties, how could they be good at anything? For me, there's a difference between a philosophy and approach, and subcommunity subcategories, and the tools that I use in order to help them. So, you know, I'm a licensed marriage and family therapist by graduate school training and licensure and so forth. And everything else that has kind of been stacked upon that came out of a decision to not go back to get my doctorate. And instead to, you know, I decided that I'm just going to be as up to date as possible with any clinical area that I'm excited about, that I would enjoy doing, and spending whatever time I want in that community to learn what I need to learn. And then specifically focus on how will that help me with everything else I'm doing in my practice. So to split up the first part, right, it started off with hypnosis and certified addiction professional, you know, as far as certification, which really was about triggers, traumas, things that are leaving your nervous system being hijacked. So one of the outcomes of that would be craving substances, food, and so forth. But that still goes back to trauma. The same thing with sports psychology. I grew up an athlete. I'm 5'2". I'm much bigger on Zoom than I am in, in person. But I grew up playing tennis and baseball and, you know, all those things. And you know, the self-limitations are still part of that belief. But I also had trauma from playing sports, right? I got made fun of. I got, you know, dismissed just by judgment of my height as opposed to my actual performance level, which was actually quite well. So I see the underlying connection between a lot of these things of self-limiting beliefs as well as trauma. And so there's those like sub little communities of that connects it, but also a lot of times it's tools, right? But then really at the all of it is this entrepreneur mindset, which I struggled with. I came from this perspective of the have-nots, the scholarship kid, and going into business, going into my own practice, I saw how that limited me from my own success. So if I didn't unpackage all of that, how am I going to be amazing for my clients, right? Then how am I going to be amazing? So it came hand in hand with that, that as I went further into this entrepreneurial journey, I didn't realize that it was not just about making more money and doing more good, but it was also about cleaning up my own psychological beliefs. So in a nutshell, that's kind of how it all works together. But now this whole entrepreneurship mindset kind of goes into this therapeutic realm as well.
