Certified Transactional Analysis Coach · Baltimore, MD
Transactional Analysis training in Baltimore.
Train as a Certified Transactional Analysis Coach (CTAC) with Harmonika Institute in Baltimore, MD. Master Transactional Analysis as a coach's framework — ego states, life scripts, and the canonical TA games.
Baltimore cohort details
- City
- Baltimore, MD
- Credential
- CTAC
- Tuition
- $3,500
- In-person training
- 10 days · 80h
- Live cohort calls
- 2 days · 8h
- Supervised practice
- 80h
- Portfolio + jury
- 40h
- Total
- 208h · ~26 day-eq.
- Cohort
- 10 students
- Format
- In person + live cohort calls
PDF — modules, hours, faculty notes, and a typical week's schedule.
Why Transactional Analysis in Baltimore?
Baltimore's wellness market is shaped by Johns Hopkins University and Hospital — one of the world's preeminent academic medical centers. Our cohorts here include researchers, healthcare workers, and educators with strong scientific literacy. The city's broader community-organizing tradition also shapes a wellness culture oriented toward practical service.
For students of Transactional Analysis specifically, Baltimore's scene is a particularly good match: johns hopkins academic-medical pipeline. community-oriented practitioner culture. The local cohort runs in venue partners around Hampden, Federal Hill, Mount Vernon, with public transit and parking accessible from across the metro.
Baltimore students are often 30-55, with backgrounds in healthcare (Hopkins, Sinai, UMMC nurses and PAs are well-represented), education, social services, and family-business roles. They ask careful evidence-based questions and value scope-of-practice clarity.
What you'll be training in.
For a deeper introduction to Transactional Analysis as a practice tradition, see the full program page.
Transactional Analysis (TA) is a framework for understanding human personality and communication, developed by the American psychiatrist Eric Berne in the 1950s and 1960s and elaborated by his students and successors over the following decades. The name comes from Berne's central insight: that human communication can be analyzed as a series of transactions between specific ego states in each participant.
The foundational TA model identifies three ego states in every adult: the Parent (responses absorbed from caregivers and authority figures), the Adult (here-and-now reality-based responses), and the Child (responses from one's own childhood emotional and cognitive history). A transaction is any exchange between two people; a clean transaction stays consistent (Adult-to-Adult, for instance), while a crossed transaction (one person speaking from Adult, the other responding from Parent) creates the small communication breakdowns we all recognize.
The Transactional Analysis curriculum, in 10 in-person days.
- Ego states (Parent / Adult / Child) and how to map a conversation
- Strokes, hungers, and the structure of transactions
- Life scripts and basic redecision-style script work
- The drama triangle (Karpman) and how to interrupt it in real time
- The canonical TA games and how to recognize them
- Using TA in a coaching contract within a non-clinical scope
When Transactional Analysis cohorts run in Baltimore.
Baltimore cohorts run year-round with January, May, and September starts. The fall cohort is the strongest. Summer humidity is real but indoor venues are well-equipped.
Who this Baltimore cohort is for.
Coaches, leaders, and HR practitioners who want a deep, structured language for understanding and changing communication patterns.
After graduation in Baltimore.
- Open a TA-informed coaching practice (CTAC)
- Add TA to an existing leadership, communication, or coaching practice
- Specialize in team dynamics or relationship coaching
- Lead TA-based workshops in companies and community settings
$3,500 for the full 26-day Transactional Analysis program in Baltimore.
Same tuition whether you study in Baltimore or any of our other U.S. cities. Monthly payment plans without interest. A 25% deposit confirms your spot in the Baltimore cohort.
Tuition and financing details$3,500
208h total · 10 in-person days
Transactional Analysis certification in other Harmonika cities.
Next step
Become a Certified Transactional Analysis Coach in Baltimore.
Talk with our admissions team about the next Transactional Analysis cohort starting in Baltimore, MD. Free, online, one hour.