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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 what EMDR is and who it helps in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR): how the therapy reprocesses distressing memories so they lose their grip, the idea that some experiences get stored in a stuck, unprocessed state, the eight-phase protocol, the three-pronged past, present, and future approach, bilateral stimulation as the engine, the conditions it treats, and where it stands among recognized trauma therapies. Every lesson ends w

A free IFS Academy course introducing Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR): what EMDR is and where it came from, the Adaptive Information Processing model behind it, the eight-phase protocol and three-pronged approach, bilateral stimulation, how target memories are found and set up, the resourcing toolkit, desensitization and the cognitive interweave, completing the work, modern developments like the Flash Technique and EMDR 2.0, and using EMDR in everyday lif

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 Welcome to the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Course for Everyday People (professionals & non-professionals) Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, grew out of the cognitive therapy that psychiatrist Aaron Beck founded in the 1960s, joined with the behavioral tradition that completes its name. It is the most thoroughly researched form of modern psychotherapy and is widely regarded as the field's gold sta