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Certified Transactional Analysis Coach · Nashville, TN

Transactional Analysis training in Nashville.

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

Transactional Analysis certification training in Nashville, TN

Nashville cohort details

City
Nashville, TN
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 Nashville?

Nashville's wellness market has grown rapidly through the 2010s and 2020s alongside the metro's broader cultural and economic ascent. Our cohorts here include music-industry professionals, healthcare workers, and creative-class transplants. Note: Tennessee prohibits non-licensed naturopathy practice, so the Holistic Naturopathy program is excluded from Nashville.

For students of Transactional Analysis specifically, Nashville's scene is a particularly good match: music industry pipeline. naturopathy program excluded by tennessee regulation. The local cohort runs in venue partners around East Nashville, Germantown, 12 South, with public transit and parking accessible from across the metro.

Nashville students are often 30-50, with backgrounds in music industry (touring musicians, songwriters, record-label staff), healthcare (Vanderbilt is a major employer), and the creative class. The music-industry cohort representation is unusually high in our network.

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 Nashville.

Nashville cohorts adjust around the music-industry calendar (tour season May-September) and summer heat. October-May cohorts are stronger; June-August reduced.

The right student

Who this Nashville 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 Nashville.

  • 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 Nashville.

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

Tuition and financing details

$3,500

208h total · 10 in-person days

Next step

Become a Certified Transactional Analysis Coach in Nashville.

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