Certified Transactional Analysis Coach · Portland, OR
Transactional Analysis training in Portland.
Train as a Certified Transactional Analysis Coach (CTAC) with Harmonika Institute in Portland, OR. Master Transactional Analysis as a coach's framework — ego states, life scripts, and the canonical TA games.
Portland cohort details
- City
- Portland, OR
- 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 Portland?
Portland's wellness market is unusually local-economy-oriented. Our students here often arrive committed to building practices serving Portland and surrounding communities specifically. NUNM (the National University of Natural Medicine) is in the metro, producing a steady flow of NDs and adjacent practitioners.
For students of Transactional Analysis specifically, Portland's scene is a particularly good match: local-economy ethos. nunm-driven practitioner pipeline. strong herbalist culture. The local cohort runs in venue partners around Hawthorne, Alberta Arts District, Pearl District, with public transit and parking accessible from across the metro.
Portland students are often 30-50, with backgrounds in education, food and beverage, design and creative industries, and healthcare. Many arrive with strong existing herbal or naturopathic personal practice. The cohort is unusually environmentally engaged.
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 Portland.
Portland cohorts adjust around the long winter rain. May and September starts dominate; January cohorts are small. Indoor venue partners are essential through the rainy season.
Who this Portland cohort is for.
Coaches, leaders, and HR practitioners who want a deep, structured language for understanding and changing communication patterns.
After graduation in Portland.
- 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 Portland.
Same tuition whether you study in Portland or any of our other U.S. cities. Monthly payment plans without interest. A 25% deposit confirms your spot in the Portland 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 Portland.
Talk with our admissions team about the next Transactional Analysis cohort starting in Portland, OR. Free, online, one hour.