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Certification Training Program in Transactional Analysis and Redecision/Relational Therapy

Description:

This comprehensive training program draws on 50 years of experience and integrates Transactional Analysis (TA), Gestalt, Redecision Therapy, Relational Therapy, Personality Adaptations, Attachment Theory, Systems Theory, Developmental Theory, Neuroscience, Bodywork, and Energy Psychology. It offers a powerful, short-term approach that combines cognitive, behavioral, and experiential techniques, with an emphasis on working with the emotional brain to achieve lasting change. 

Goal:

The goal is to develop a broad conceptual framework and master effective techniques for individual, couple, family, and group therapy.

Certification

TA Practitioner through the North American Transactional Analysis Association (NATAA)

Requirements

  • Completion of a two-day Transactional Analysis  101 Course

  • 10 months of training

Training Components

  • Theory

  • Demonstration

  • Experiential work

  • Supervision

Certification

Re-decision Therapist through the Southeast Institute

Requirements

  • Transactional Analysis 101 Course

  • 20 months of training

  • Attending the One-Week Mastering Re-decision Therapy Workshop

  • Written exam

  • Videotaped demonstration of competence

Training Components

  • All TA Practitioner components

  • Video-based peer practice

  • Personal work and observe the faculty

Certification

Certified Transactional Analyst (CTA) through the International Transactional Analysis Association

Requirements

  • Completion of a two-day TA 101 course

  • Four years of training

  • For a Complete Description, see the ITAA Website (itaaworld.com)

Training Components

  • Videotaped demonstration of competence

  • Ongoing Supervision with a PTSTA or TSTA

  • Written & Oral exam with ITAA

Topics we will cover

September 18 - 19

Setting the Stage for Effective Therapy, Contracting

December 18 - 19

Micro-Tracting Unconscious Communication, Psychological Hungers

March 19 - 20

Decontaminating the Adult and Restructuring the Parent, Game Analysis

June 4 - 5

Working with the Group-as-a-Whole, The Overall Framework

October 16 - 17

Redecision Therapy, Structural Analysis

January 15 - 16

Identifying Early Decisions and Facilitating Redecisions, Redefining and Frames of Reference

April 16 - 17

Couples Therapy, Passivity and Discounting

November 13 - 14

Personality Focused Treatment (PFT)®, TA Proper

February 19 - 20

Trauma Resolution Energy Therapy (TRET)®, Racket Analysis

May 14 - 15

Family Therapy, Script Analysis

Learning Objectives:

  • Demonstrate contracting

  • Describe the Re-decision process

  • Explain Personality Focused Treatment

  • List the six core Personality Adaptations 

  • List the major developmental stages in childhood

  • Describe the contact cycle

  • List the different levels of passive behavior

  • Explain when Relational Therapy is most important

  • Describe have to develop a therapeutic alliance with someone with a Borderline structure

  • Explain how to make contact with someone with an Antisocial Personality Adaptation

Enrollment:

  • Meets one weekend a month for 10 months

  • Runs on a two-year cycle, with enrollment by semester.

Times:

Fridays 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Saturdays 9:00 am – 4:30 pm

Faculty:

Vann Joines, Ph.D.,
Jessica D’Andrea, Psy.D., CTA, TAPI

Tuition:

$2250 per semester ($650 deposit; balance payable $400 per month for 4 months)


Level:

All

CE Hours:

60 Per Semester

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659 Edwards Ridge Rd.

Chapel Hill, NC 27517

Phone

919-929-1171

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