
Therapeutic Modality Courses
🎉 Our Academy-wide rollout is underway! We're releasing 150+ free courses across multiple topics in waves, with the full library live by early 2027. Our Therapeutic Modality Courses are rolling out NOW!! with new courses added every week!
Welcome to our Free & Low Cost Therapeutic Modality Courses! Everything IFS Academy is a free and low cost global multi-topic learning center designed to meet people wherever they are on the path to becoming their best selves. We believe financial barriers should never stand in the way of anyone's personal growth and spiritual development, so this is our gift to the community.
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Therapeutic modalities are the structured approaches therapists train in, each offering its own way of understanding what hurts and what helps. Every course in this series teaches one modality on its own terms, in plain, relatable language for everyday people, so you finish with practical skills, tools, and techniques you can use in your relationships, your work, and your daily life. These courses pair well with professional mental health care but are not a substitute for it.
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Free Courses
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Open instantly to everyone
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150+ self-paced courses to choose from
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No tests, quizzes, or homework
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No account required
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No sign-up
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No email gate
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Take the course in sequential order or jump around according to your interest
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Simply select a course below and begin. Enjoy!

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.

Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT)
Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People
Learn Compassion Focused Therapy through the three emotion regulation systems, compassionate mind training, soothing rhythm breathing, and building a compassionate self to meet shame and self-criticism.

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.

Exposure & Response Prevention (ERP)
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
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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
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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
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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
Written for Everyday People
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.
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.

