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A free IFS Academy course on Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) for everyday people: Paul Gilbert's therapy built for shame and self-criticism, the three emotion systems, the tricky brain, the compassionate self, and the full compassionate mind training toolkit across nineteen lessons. Every lesson ends with a Compassion Focused Therapy practice so you can begin applying the skill.

A free IFS Academy course on the complete toolkit of Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT): the tapping points and Basic Recipe, the Setup Statement, the Movie and Tell the Story techniques, the gentle methods for heavy material, the Personal Peace Procedure, and Borrowing Benefits. Every lesson ends with an Emotional Freedom Techniques practice so you can begin applying the skill.

A free IFS Academy course on Somatic Experiencing (SE), Dr. Peter Levine's body-first approach to healing trauma and chronic stress: fifteen self-paced modules moving from what SE is and how it came to exist through the complete toolkit of nervous system skills the modality is known for. Every lesson ends with a Somatic Experiencing practice so you can begin applying the skill.

A free IFS Academy course on Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT): the ABC model, the three basic musts, awfulizing, unconditional self-acceptance, disputing irrational beliefs, rational emotive imagery, and shame-attacking exercises. Every lesson ends with a Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy practice so you can begin applying the skill.

A free IFS Academy course on Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) for everyday people: how stuck memories keep firing in the present tense, the eight phases, bilateral stimulation, the stabilization toolkit, negative and positive cognitions, and the future template. Every lesson ends with an Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing practice so you can begin applying the skill.

A free IFS Academy course on Gestalt Therapy: the present-centered, experiential therapy founded by Fritz Perls, Laura Perls, and Paul Goodman, covering awareness skills, the contact interruptions, unfinished business, the empty chair, and dream work across thirteen modules. Every lesson ends with a Gestalt Therapy practice so you can begin applying the skill.

A free IFS Academy course on Sandplay Therapy, Dora Kalff's Jungian method of healing through worlds built in sand: the free and protected space, the tray and the miniatures, the silent witness, the language of symbols, the stages of the process, and sandplay across the lifespan. Every lesson ends with a Sandplay Therapy practice so you can begin applying the skill.

A free IFS Academy course on Motivational Interviewing (MI): the spirit of MI, ambivalence and the righting reflex, the four processes, the OARS skills, change talk and the DARN CAT taxonomy, evoking, values and discrepancy, and building a change plan. Every lesson ends with a Motivational Interviewing practice so you can begin applying the skill.

A free IFS Academy course on hypnotherapy for everyday people: the trance state, the classic suggestibility tests, hypnotic inductions and deepeners, direct and Ericksonian suggestion, therapeutic metaphor, the safe place, self-hypnosis, ego strengthening, and mental rehearsal. Every lesson ends with a Hypnotherapy practice so you can begin applying the skill.

A free IFS Academy course on treating OCD at its source in Inference-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (I-CBT): obsessional doubt and where it comes from, inferential confusion, the story that makes a doubt feel real, the OCD bubble, reality sensing, and the feared self and the real self. Every lesson ends with an Inference-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy practice so you can begin applying the skill.

A free IFS Academy course on Jungian therapy: Carl Jung's map of the psyche, the shadow and shadow work, dream work, active imagination, the archetypes, complexes, psychological types, synchronicity, and individuation, taught in plain language for everyday people. Every lesson ends with a Jungian therapy practice so you can begin applying the skill.

A free IFS Academy course on Metacognitive Therapy (MCT), Adrian Wells's approach to worry and rumination: the Cognitive Attentional Syndrome, metacognitive beliefs, detached mindfulness, the Attention Training Technique, worry postponement, and the belief-challenging experiments, all in plain language for everyday people. Every lesson ends with a Metacognitive Therapy practice so you can begin applying the skill.

A free IFS Academy course on Brainspotting (BSP) for everyday people: the complete method from David Grand's core insight through the three ways of finding a brainspot, the frame that holds the work, the grounding tools, the advanced refinements, and performance applications. Every lesson ends with a Brainspotting practice so you can begin applying the skill.

A free IFS Academy course on Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), the gold-standard treatment for OCD and a powerful approach to many fears: a clear, skills-first walkthrough that opens up what ERP actually teaches, from how the OCD cycle works and why facing fear heals it, through the SUDS scale, the exposure hierarchy, and the in vivo, imaginal, and interoceptive forms of exposure, to response prevention and the willingness to live with uncertainty. Every lesson ends wit

Free Course by Everything IFS Academy | Therapeutic Modalities Series Help us reach the people who may need this most by sharing this free course with friends, family, colleagues, online communities, social media or on your own website. 🎧 Audio is read by AI - Helen 📚Welcome to the Free Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Course for Everyday People Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, grew out of the cognitive therapy that psychiatrist Aaron Beck founded in the 1960s, join

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, teaches a different way of relating to thoughts, feelings, and inner struggle. Instead of trying to control painful experiences, ACT helps you build psychological flexibility: the capacity to stay present, open to what is happening inside you, and committed to moving toward what matters. This free course from Everything IFS Academy introduces ACT from the ground up, including its origins, core principles, six central processes, and p