NATAA Certified Transactional Analysis Practitioner pathway
A complete grounding in Transactional Analysis for licensed clinicians, educators and organizational practitioners, taught through evidence based, social justice, transcultural and neuro-affirming perspectives.
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Transactional Analysis offers a clear, practical language for understanding how people think, feel and relate. This course follows the official NATAA requirements for the Certified Transactional Analysis Practitioner credential, moving from TA basics through structural analysis, transactions and strokes, rackets and games, and finally life scripts and script change.
2 hours
Introductory keynote
TA's history, core concepts and applications, plus an honest look at the evidence base and its limits.
6 hours
TA basics
Ego states, transactions, games, strokes, rackets and scripts. Meets NATAA's six hour introduction to TA theory requirement.
12 hours
Module 1: Personality and ego states
Structural and functional analysis, the four ways of diagnosing ego states, second order diagrams and the egogram.
12 hours
Module 2: Transactions and strokes
Using crossed transactions to shift stuck conversations, positive and limit setting strokes, stroke economies and time structuring.
12 hours
Module 3: Rackets and games
How painful feeling patterns develop, inviting change in racket beliefs, the Drama Triangle, the Winner's Triangle and intervening in games.
14 hours
Module 4: Life scripts
Injunctions and the script matrix, script analysis, and facilitating script change through insight, redecision, relational repair and strokes.
Psychologists, LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCs and counselors
Educators and organizational practitioners
Anyone seeking the NATAA TAP credential, from introductory to intermediate level
Reflective exercises always offer a case based alternative, so personal disclosure is optional throughout.
Credential targeted:
Certified Transactional Analysis Practitioner (TAP), North American Transactional Analysis Association (NATAA)
Proposed instructional time:
Weekly Starting Feb 16, 9am-11am Pacific, 58 contact hours — 25 weeks + 8 hours self study
Proposed CE credits:
50, subject to sponsor review and compliant delivery (1 CE credit = 1 hour of instructional time, per APA Standard F)
Instructional level:
Introductory to intermediate (clinical analysis pitched for licensed professionals; no prior TA knowledge assumed)
Cost: Donation based/Sliding Scale
Who is the facilitator?:
Cheryl Leong, MFT has been a 30 year long time student of Transactional Analysis and is a TA Advanced Instructor with North America TA Association as well as a traines in CTA training with International TA Association. She is currently in training to become a TA Practitioner instructor She is a contemporary TA theorist and co-author of 'Decentering Neuronormativity' an article published in the Transactional Analysis Journal that explores neurodiversity, ablism, impasses, rackets and script.
This course is being supervised by Lucy Freedman, MAT, CTA, TAPI under the auspices of North America TA Association.