Transactional Analysis (TA)

Transactional analysis is a psychological theory and therapeutic model developed by psychiatrist Eric Berne in the 1950s. It explains personality and relationships through observable patterns of communication (“transactions”) and three internal ego states: theparent, adult, and child. TA is designed to be practical and accessible, helping people understand how early relational learning shapes adult behavior, and how greater awareness can restore choice, autonomy, and emotional health. TA helps through:

• Awareness when we’re operating from a wounded child state versus a rational adult state.
• Reparenting the inner child in therapy to provide the nurturing and validation the adult missed in childhood, often through the therapist’s adult ego state.
• Shifting to the adult to strengthen the adult ego state, enabling us to acknowledge the wounded child’s pain without being controlled by it, making choices based on current reality, not past scripts.
• Breaking Games: By understanding parent-child dynamics and “Games People Play,” you can stop repeating dysfunctional patterns that keep the Wounded Child trapped