About Jasmin Nass
FOUNDER OF ELEVATE MINDWORKS • CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL HYPNOTIST, CHt
I thought I was the problem. I also thought the answer lived outside me.
I’m Jasmin Nass.
Sometimes, I believed there was something fundamentally wrong with me.
Other times, I was convinced that if the people, relationships, or circumstances around me would change, I could finally feel okay.
I was moving between self-blame and giving too much of my power away.
I didn’t understand yet that there could be another way.
YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE FALLING APART BEFORE YOU’RE ALLOWED TO WANT SOMETHING TO FEEL DIFFERENT.
That matters to me because I waited until a breaking point to discover another way.
If any part of my story feels familiar, I want you to know sooner than I did:
Understanding yourself, taking responsibility for your life, and learning to work with your mind can exist together.
THE SEARCH STARTED LONG BEFORE ELEVATE.
I can trace part of it back to being 20 years old.
I was helping set up a new store for my employer, surrounded by people my age who seemed light, happy, and free in ways I didn’t feel.
I had grown up inside a very structured Christian framework, and I remember thinking:
I need to find out for myself what’s actually true.
That decision began years of questioning, experiencing, learning, and searching.
There were drugs. Alcohol. Relationships that hurt more than they healed. And eventually, almost every kind of self-help and personal-development work I could find.
Underneath all of it was the same hope:
If I can understand myself deeply enough, maybe I can finally make what’s happening inside me feel different.
So I analyzed, managed, pushed, fixed, and worked on myself.
Some of those tools gave me things I genuinely needed.
But underneath them, I was still treating myself and my mind as problems to correct, control, overcome, manage, heal, or explain.
I didn’t yet know another relationship was possible.
THEN MY DIVORCE FORCED A DIFFERENT KIND OF SEARCH.
My divorce brought me into one of the most intense periods of mental, emotional, and physical turmoil I had experienced.
This time, I couldn’t only tell the story of what had happened to me.
I had to ask harder questions about my part in what hadn’t worked the way I hoped it would.
“Where had I abandoned myself?”
“What had I tolerated?”
“Where had I been looking outside myself for reassurance, belonging, or evidence that I was okay?”
That accountability changed the direction of my healing.
I went deeply into repairing my relationships — with myself, with women, with men — and examining what I had learned about love, approval, belonging, trust, boundaries, and responsibility.
I wasn’t only trying to feel better anymore.
I was learning to recognize my participation in the relationships and experiences I was living.
But even with that insight, old reactions, fears, and responses could still arrive before conscious understanding had much say.
A FEW MONTHS INTO THAT WORK, I REMEMBERED A HYPNOTIST I’D MET.
About three or four months into that work, I remembered someone I had met at a retreat.
She was a hypnotist.
By then, I had seen what honest reflection, accountability, and relationship work could change — and the limits of what understanding alone could change.
Hypnosis gave me another way in.
Because it helped me see that lasting change often involves more than what we consciously understand.
I could become curious about responses instead of immediately trying to control or eliminate them.
And I began asking a question that changed my relationship with myself:
“What if my mind wasn’t the adversary?”
What if the thoughts, reactions, impulses, and protective responses I had spent so much time fighting were attempts to accomplish something?
To stay connected. Belong. Avoid pain. Create certainty. Experience pleasure. Protect me. Keep me functioning.
That didn’t mean every response still belonged in my life.
It meant I could stop asking:
“How do I get rid of this?”
And start asking:
“What did my mind learn — and what is it trying to do?”
If you’ve ever understood why you do something and still wondered why understanding hasn’t changed it, this is the distinction I want you to know exists.
“For years, I was trying to make my mind behave. What changed things was learning how to work with it.”
THAT’S WHEN THE PIECES STARTED COMING TOGETHER.
The relationship work was teaching me accountability.
Hypnosis was changing how I related to my mind.
Together, they showed me I didn’t have to choose between:
“None of this is my responsibility.”
and
“Everything is wrong with me.”
I could understand why something developed, take responsibility for what I did with it now, and still approach myself with compassion instead of attack.
I could become my own ally without letting myself off the hook.
That distinction became foundational to everything I do.
I INITIALLY GOT CERTIFIED FOR ME.
I didn’t begin hypnosis training with a business plan.
I wanted to understand what had happened for me and learn how to work with my own mind more effectively.
But somewhere in the middle of becoming certified, I realized:
This is too powerful for me to keep to myself.
Then I began practicing.
One early turning point came when I guided my boyfriend through hypnosis around the lingering impact of a past injury.
His relationship to that experience changed in a way that surprised both of us.
He told people. They started reaching out.
Then the work deepened — into childhood experiences, fear, self-worth, relationships, loss, and disconnection from self.
And I kept seeing something I had experienced myself:
People weren’t necessarily lacking insight.
Sometimes they had plenty of it.
What they didn’t yet have was a way to work with the parts of their experience that weren’t responding to insight alone.
They needed a way to understand what their minds had learned — and work with that information differently.
That was the beginning of Elevate Mindworks.
WHAT EVENTUALLY BECAME MENTAL AGENCY
Over time, the philosophy underneath the work became clearer.
Understanding why something developed doesn’t remove responsibility.
It gives us better information to take responsibility with.
I could keep what was valuable, understand what my mind had learned, and create better ways forward without continuing to fight myself.
That thinking eventually became what I call Mental Agency.
Your mind was shaped by what you’ve lived. Learning to work with it gives you more say in what comes next.
Not perfect control.
Not permanent calm.
More understanding. More participation. More options. More say.
WHAT IT’S LIKE TO WORK WITH ME
I pay attention.
I ask questions.
I listen for what someone means — not only the words they use to describe it.
And I don’t assume that because I’ve seen something similar before, I already know what it means for you.
Two people can experience something that looks almost identical from the outside for completely different reasons.
That matters.
I’m interested in what your mind has learned, what your responses may be trying to accomplish, what you want to feel different, and what you don’t want to lose.
Your ambition, sensitivity, standards, independence, discernment, loyalty, awareness, and care may all matter.
Understanding why something developed doesn’t mean you have to keep living from it or turn against yourself to change it.
I care just as much about what you want to keep as what you’re ready to update.
I bring expertise in the process.
You remain the authority on you.
“She was always fully prepared for every session and was very attentive to every detail. Nothing ever felt forced or rushed. Everything always moved at the pace that I needed it to move in order to get the most from every session.”
— Zach Gamer
THE WORK BEHIND THE WORK
I’m a Certified Professional Hypnotist (CHt) and founder of Elevate Mindworks.
Through Elevate, I work privately with highly capable adults in Madison, Wisconsin and online using Interactive Hypnosis.
My work also extends into speaking, education, and leadership environments focused on pressure, performance, learned responses, and Mental Agency.
The work is organized through the Mental Agency Method:
Neutralize → Find → Keep → Update → Become
If you’re curious about the philosophy behind Elevate, Interactive Hypnosis, or how the method works:
WHY I WANT THIS WORK TO BE EASIER TO FIND
I found hypnosis after years of searching and reaching a point where I knew something had to change.
I don’t think that should be the prerequisite.
Deep change doesn’t have to begin with fighting yourself, and Interactive Hypnosis doesn’t have to be something you discover only after life becomes unbearable.
You can acknowledge how your experiences shaped you and take responsibility for what comes next.
You can become your own greatest ally.
You can keep what made you capable — and change what no longer needs to cost so much.
For me, that’s what Mental Agency makes possible.
Not escaping your life.
Having more say in how you live it.
YOU DON’T NEED A BREAKING POINT TO BEGIN.
If you know something could feel different but aren’t yet sure what kind of support fits, there’s a place to start.
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