
Everything IFS Academy
Free Therapeutic Modality Courses
Welcome to the Therapeutic Modalities Series within the Everything IFS Academy. We are a free and low cost global multi-topic learning center with over 150+ free courses, designed to meet people wherever they are on their path toward healing and growth. We believe financial barriers should never stand in the way of anyone’s journey toward mental and emotional wellbeing.
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Therapeutic modalities are the structured approaches that therapists, counselors, psychologists, and other mental health professionals train in. Each one carries its own set of skills, tools, techniques, strategies, and processes, which is exactly what we teach in these courses. Everything is written in plain, relatable English for everyday people, making it easy to understand. These are not clinical trainings, and no CEU credits are available at this time.
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Every lesson shares real-life examples, step-by-step walkthroughs, practices, and exercises you can begin applying the same day. One important note before you begin: these courses are not created for self-trauma treatment. They are education, and learning a therapeutic modality is not the same as receiving therapy or trauma treatment in that modality. The practices at the end of each lesson are intentionally kept light, inviting you to work with small, ordinary, everyday situations, because that is how a skill is actually built and how your capacity quietly grows. If even that feels like too much right now, skip the practices as the lessons will still teach you plenty. If you are further along in your healing journey and feel ready to bring something bigger to a skill, please make sure you have real support around you first, professionally or personally, so you are not holding it alone. These courses pair well with professional mental health care but are never a substitute for it.
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All free courses are self-paced, with no tests, no homework, and no sign-up or email required. You just click and learn. Binge a course in one go, wander through slowly, or read only the lessons that call to you. Simply select a course below and begin.
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Feel free to help us reach the people who may need this most by sharing these courses with friends, family, colleagues, online communities, social media, or on your own website.
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Looking for a therapist in the United States? Visit Psychology Today.
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If you are specifically wanting an IFS Level 1, 2, or 3 trained therapist, visit the IFS Institute Directory.
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Or explore the global Parts Work Directory to find IFS and parts work therapists, practitioners, coaches, consultants, and speakers.

Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People
Explore the six core processes of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: present-moment awareness, cognitive defusion, acceptance, self-as-context, values, and committed action, and how to live them daily.

Brainspotting
Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People
Explore the foundations of Brainspotting, from brainspots and the subcortical brain to dual attunement, resource activation, gazespotting, focused mindfulness, BioLateral Sound, and practical applications for healing, performance, and everyday life.

Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People
Learn the foundations of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, from the thought–feeling–behavior link and automatic thoughts to cognitive distortions, thought records, restructuring, and behavioral activation.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People
Learn the four core skills of Dialectical Behavior Therapy: mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness for steadying intense emotions and relationships.

Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People
Learn how EMDR reprocesses painful memory through its eight phases, the adaptive information processing model, bilateral stimulation, resourcing, desensitization, and installing positive beliefs.

Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People
Learn Exposure and Response Prevention for OCD and anxiety: building an exposure hierarchy, facing fear without rituals, preventing compulsions, and letting distress fall on its own.

Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People
Learn Internal Family Systems from the ground up: parts, exiles, managers, and firefighters, the eight qualities of Self, and the unburdening process that restores inner harmony and Self-leadership.

Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People
Learn Inference-Based CBT for OCD, a non-exposure approach that dissolves obsessional doubt at its source: inferential confusion, the OCD bubble, and learning to trust your senses over imagined fear.

Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People
Learn Metacognitive Therapy and the patterns that keep distress alive: the cognitive attentional syndrome, metacognitive beliefs, detached mindfulness, attention training, and worry postponement.

Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People
Discover how the body holds and releases stress and trauma through Somatic Experiencing: nervous system regulation, titration, pendulation, felt-sense tracking, and discharging survival energy.

Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People
Explore Carl Jung's Analytical Psychology through archetypes, the shadow, dreams, psychological types, synchronicity, complexes, individuation, and the unconscious.

Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People
Learn how hypnotherapy works through focused attention, trance, suggestion, the role of the unconscious, hypnotic induction, deepening, therapeutic imagery, and returning to ordinary awareness.
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Price: FREE Course
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Learn Motivational Interviewing through its collaborative spirit, the four processes, OARS communication skills, change talk, sustain talk, ambivalence, and strengthening a person's own motivation for change.

Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People
Explore Sandplay Therapy through miniature worlds, symbolic expression, the protected space of the sand tray, archetypal imagery, the therapist's witnessing role, and the meaning that emerges through the process.

Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People
Learn Gestalt Therapy through present-moment awareness, the here and now, contact and boundaries, personal responsibility, unfinished business, experiments, and the classic empty-chair technique.

Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People
Learn Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) through the tapping sequence, acupressure points, setup statements, identifying emotional targets, rating intensity, reminder phrases, and repeated tapping rounds.
Who Writes Our Free Courses
Our free self-paced courses are a genuine human-AI collaboration, roughly 50% human and 50% AI.
These courses are not someone typing a single prompt and publishing whatever comes out.
We do not use a free or entry-level AI. We invest in one of the most advanced professional-tier AI models available, because the depth and accuracy of writing at this level is in a different league from what most people experience with low-cost AI.
While AI models arrive with extensive training across these topics, we never rely on that alone. Before drafting a single lesson, the AI performs in-depth research on that specific topic, pulling from resources written by qualified experts in the field: published books, professional essays, clinical resources, and articles from practitioners and specialists with relevant credentials. Every draft is grounded in that expert-created material, not generated from thin air.
With that said, whether something is written entirely by humans, entirely by AI, or by the two working together, errors can occur. We encourage readers to verify important information and consult a qualified professional in the relevant area wherever appropriate.
For those who would like more specifics, here is the six-step process behind every course:
1. Humans design the courses and set the teaching standards and outlines
2. Humans shape the arc of each lesson
3. AI conducts deep, highly specific research on each individual lesson topic before drafting the lesson
4. Humans review, direct, and run multiple edits alongside AI
5. Humans approves every lesson before it's published
6. Each finished course then goes to Eleven Labs, where it's recorded by one of their AI voices
We have poured a tremendous amount of time, care, and love into these free courses, in the hope that they help you become your best Self.
Looking for Something Live?
If you're looking for a social community, here are free live online support groups, recovery groups, healing circles, spiritual gatherings, book clubs, IFS demos, parts work practices, study groups, and more happening every day.
And starting later in 2027, Everything IFS Academy will be running free weekly live classes on a variety of topics. Join our newsletter to be the first to know when they launch.
Disclaimer: Everything IFS Academy is an independent educational platform and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the IFS Institute or the official training bodies of any therapeutic modality taught in this series. These courses, lessons, skills, and practices are offered for educational and self-reflection purposes only. They teach you about each modality and its tools for personal use; they do not constitute therapy, mental health treatment, clinical training, certification, or professional qualification, and completing a course does not prepare or license anyone to practice a modality with others. Some approaches taught here are designed to be delivered by trained clinicians, and learning about them is not the same as receiving them in treatment. These courses pair well with professional mental health care but should never be used as a substitute for it.
Crisis Support: 🚨 If you are experiencing a mental health crisis, feel unsafe, feel at risk of harming yourself or someone else, or feel too overwhelmed to safely use self-directed practices, please pause this material and reach out for immediate support. Contact a licensed mental health professional, call or text 988 in the U.S. or Canada, or use your local emergency or crisis resources.


