Free Therapeutic Modality Courses by Everything IFS Academy

As of May 12, 2026

We have begun rolling out our Free Therapeutic Modality Courses.
We release 2-3 new courses per week
Perfect for beginners or those new to these modalities
Written in warm, everyday language that's easy to follow.
Free and open to everyone — no clinical background needed.
Each course teaches one modality: a DBT course teaches DBT, with a DBT practice at the end of every lesson.
When a course has been release, simply click the "View Course" button to begin. It's that easy.

Looking to blend a clinical modality with IFS? We offer those too, just not on this page.

Disclaimer: Everything IFS Academy is an independent platform, not affiliated with or endorsed by the IFS Institute. These courses teach the skills and tools each modality offers — they are not therapy, treatment, or a substitute for professional or clinical care.

Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)

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.

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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

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)

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)

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.

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)

Written for Everyday People

Learn Emotionally Focused Therapy through attachment science, the negative cycle, pursuer and withdrawer positions, de-escalation, and restructuring the bond into lasting, secure connection.

Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR)

Written for Everday 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)

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)

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.

Inference-based Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (I-CBT)

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.

Metacognitive Therapy (MCT)

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.

Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)

Written for Non-Professionals

Learn Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy through the ABC model, spotting irrational beliefs and rigid demands, disputing them effectively, and building unconditional self-acceptance.

Somatic Experiencing (SE)

Written for Non-Professionals

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.