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

New York cohort details
- City
- New York, NY
- 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 New York?
New York's wellness market is unlike any other in the country: it's where modalities are tested, refined, and exported. The five boroughs hold thousands of yoga studios, several hundred spas, and a thriving network of independent practitioners working in everything from Reiki to expressive arts. The career-changers who train with us in New York typically come from finance, media, fashion, and tech — they've spent a decade or more in highly cognitive work and want a practice that puts them back in the body, with their hands, in front of real people. Public transit makes attendance from across the metro realistic for evening and weekend cohorts.
For students of Transactional Analysis specifically, New York's scene is a particularly good match: highest density of yoga studios per capita in the u.s. strong demand for in-person, lineage-aware training. The local cohort runs in venue partners around DUMBO, Williamsburg, NoMad, with public transit and parking accessible from across the metro.
New York applicants tend to be 35-50 years old, often coming from a decade or more in finance, law, media, fashion, advertising, or tech. Many have stable income, well-developed personal yoga or meditation practices, and clear evidence in their lives that the office-driven life is not sustainable. They are sophisticated consumers of wellness content and skeptical of training that overpromises. They want lineage clarity, real practice hours, and a credential they can speak about credibly with the friends and former colleagues they expect to bring as their first paying clients.
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 New York.
New York cohorts run year-round with three start dates (January, May, September). Winter cohorts have lower attendance variance (people are indoors anyway); summer cohorts are slightly smaller but produce strong cohesion through the shared experience of training in heat. Most cohorts meet on weekends to accommodate working professionals, with one weeknight evening per month for cohort cohesion.
Who this New York cohort is for.
Coaches, leaders, and HR practitioners who want a deep, structured language for understanding and changing communication patterns.
After graduation in New York.
- 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 New York.
Same tuition whether you study in New York or any of our other U.S. cities. Monthly payment plans without interest. A 25% deposit confirms your spot in the New York 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 New York.
Talk with our admissions team about the next Transactional Analysis cohort starting in New York, NY. Free, online, one hour.