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Certified Transactional Analysis Coach · Los Angeles, CA

Transactional Analysis training in Los Angeles.

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

Transactional Analysis certification training in Los Angeles, CA

Los Angeles cohort details

City
Los Angeles, CA
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 Los Angeles?

If New York is where modalities are exported, Los Angeles is where many of them were first imported. The city's relationship with holistic practice goes back decades: Esalen is up the coast, the human-potential movement passed through here, and today LA holds the largest concentration of yoga teachers, energy practitioners, and somatic facilitators on the West Coast. Our Los Angeles students tend to be entertainment-industry professionals, healthcare workers, and parents — people whose sense of timing is intimate with the rhythms of attention and recovery.

For students of Transactional Analysis specifically, Los Angeles's scene is a particularly good match: highest concentration of holistic professionals on the west coast. strong appetite for movement and somatic work. The local cohort runs in venue partners around Venice, Silver Lake, Pasadena, with public transit and parking accessible from across the metro.

LA applicants are often 30-50, with backgrounds in entertainment (writers, producers, post-production professionals), tech, healthcare, or hospitality. Many already hold a yoga teacher certification (RYT-200 or higher) and want a complementary credential to broaden their offering and stabilize their income through varied modalities. Others are healthcare workers (nurses, OTs, physical therapists) seeking a non-clinical sister practice. The LA student tends to be process-oriented, embodied, and unusually willing to do the slow somatic work that distinguishes our program.

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 Los Angeles.

LA cohorts run on a tri-annual cadence (January, May, September), with year-round consistency thanks to the climate. The summer cohort tends to attract more entertainment-industry professionals between projects; the September cohort attracts more career-changers timing their pivot to a fall start. Cohorts meet across two weekends per month plus one weekday evening for cohesion.

The right student

Who this Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles.

  • 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 Los Angeles.

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

Tuition and financing details

$3,500

208h total · 10 in-person days

Next step

Become a Certified Transactional Analysis Coach in Los Angeles.

Talk with our admissions team about the next Transactional Analysis cohort starting in Los Angeles, CA. Free, online, one hour.