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Certified Transactional Analysis Coach · Houston, TX

Transactional Analysis training in Houston.

Train as a Certified Transactional Analysis Coach (CTAC) with Harmonika Institute in Houston, TX. Master Transactional Analysis as a coach's framework — ego states, life scripts, and the canonical TA games.

Transactional Analysis certification training in Houston, TX

Houston cohort details

City
Houston, TX
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
Download detailed program (PDF)

PDF — modules, hours, faculty notes, and a typical week's schedule.

Train where you live

Why Transactional Analysis in Houston?

Houston is the most ethnically diverse metropolitan area in the United States, and its wellness market reflects that. Practitioners here often work across multiple cultural traditions — Latin American somatic work, Vietnamese and Chinese energy traditions, Indian Ayurveda — within a single career. The Texas Medical Center, the largest medical complex in the world, also draws healthcare workers in active career transition.

For students of Transactional Analysis specifically, Houston's scene is a particularly good match: highly diverse practitioner community. adjacent to the world's largest medical complex (tmc). The local cohort runs in venue partners around The Heights, Montrose, Rice Village, with public transit and parking accessible from across the metro.

Houston students are often 30-50, with backgrounds in healthcare (TMC and regional hospitals are major sources), energy industry transitioning roles, education, and entrepreneurship. Cultural diversity is unusually high in our Houston cohorts — recent cohorts have included Vietnamese-American practitioners adding Western frameworks to family traditions, Indian-American students pursuing CAWC alongside personal Ayurvedic background, and Nigerian-American students bringing West African wellness sensibilities into our programs.

The modality

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.

What you'll learn

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

See the full module-by-module curriculum →

Cohort schedule

When Transactional Analysis cohorts run in Houston.

Houston cohorts run year-round with three starts (January, May, September). The summer cohort is smaller (heat is a real factor), and Hurricane Harvey-era memory still shapes contingency planning for the August-October window. Most cohorts meet weekends with one weeknight evening for cohort cohesion.

The right student

Who this Houston cohort is for.

Coaches, leaders, and HR practitioners who want a deep, structured language for understanding and changing communication patterns.

Career outcomes

After graduation in Houston.

  • 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
Tuition

$3,500 for the full 26-day Transactional Analysis program in Houston.

Same tuition whether you study in Houston or any of our other U.S. cities. Monthly payment plans without interest. A 25% deposit confirms your spot in the Houston cohort.

Tuition and financing details

$3,500

208h total · 10 in-person days

Next step

Become a Certified Transactional Analysis Coach in Houston.

Talk with our admissions team about the next Transactional Analysis cohort starting in Houston, TX. Free, online, one hour.