Help EPC, CE lights, transmission troubles

Hi, so sorry if this is the wrong place to put this. I have a 2009 Volkswagen Passat. Yesterday night my EPC light came on and my transmission was having trouble getting to the next gear; if I accelerated to where it should shift up it would stall as if waiting for a manual shift, and only when I'd let go of the acceleration for a second would it shift up. This started after about 5 minutes of driving and hasn't gone away.

Today, both the CE and EPC lights came on with the same issues as before. I put it into the "manual" mode and I could shift up and down without issue, but whenever in automatic the same problems of shifting up would occur with a noticeable lurching when shifting down gears automatically while decelerating. Is this a common issue? I wasn't able to find my specific problem after some googling.