How to apply custom shader/material to a Text Mesh Pro text?

I know I am having a lack of knowledge about how TextMeshPro works and maybe my question has not sense.

I have a nice shader effect that makes the vertexes of a mesh to wave around, I am using it in some of the meshes of my game.

I would like to apply the same effect to a TextMeshPro object but I don't know how can I add my shader/material to this kind of objects.

Maybe this is not possible and I have to convert the Text to image/sprite and apply the shader/material to the generated image :?