Certified Transactional Analysis Coach · San Jose, CA
Transactional Analysis training in San Jose.
Train as a Certified Transactional Analysis Coach (CTAC) with Harmonika Institute in San Jose, CA. Master Transactional Analysis as a coach's framework — ego states, life scripts, and the canonical TA games.
San Jose cohort details
- City
- San Jose, 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
PDF — modules, hours, faculty notes, and a typical week's schedule.
Why Transactional Analysis in San Jose?
San Jose's wellness market is the most tech-driven in our network. Our students here disproportionately come from software and hardware engineering, product management, and venture capital. The Silicon Valley mindfulness movement (Search Inside Yourself, the broader contemplative-tech ecosystem) has shaped client expectations toward sophisticated, evidence-aware practitioners.
For students of Transactional Analysis specifically, San Jose's scene is a particularly good match: tech-driven student profile. highest absolute pricing power for graduate practitioners. The local cohort runs in venue partners around Downtown San Jose, Willow Glen, Mountain View, with public transit and parking accessible from across the metro.
San Jose students are often 30-48, with strong representation from tech (engineers, PMs, designers in active career questioning), biotech, and consulting. They tend to be highly educated, well-paid, and often have mature personal contemplative practices already.
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 San Jose.
Silicon Valley cohorts run year-round; the climate makes scheduling unusually consistent. Tech industry rhythms (product launches, fiscal-year quarters) affect cohort composition more than weather.
Who this San Jose cohort is for.
Coaches, leaders, and HR practitioners who want a deep, structured language for understanding and changing communication patterns.
After graduation in San Jose.
- 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 San Jose.
Same tuition whether you study in San Jose or any of our other U.S. cities. Monthly payment plans without interest. A 25% deposit confirms your spot in the San Jose 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 San Jose.
Talk with our admissions team about the next Transactional Analysis cohort starting in San Jose, CA. Free, online, one hour.