Posted: Feb 13, 2017 4:17 pm
Sendraks wrote:Fallible wrote:I echo what Sendraks says. Apart from this being a regulated and vetted pool of therapists, you'll save yourself a fucktonne of money. You won't lose anything by going to see your doctor and getting the process started in tandem with going to see this one you've got.
Here's the thing with going to the GP.
It takes effort.
You actually have to get off your arse, call the surgery, arrange an appointment and physically get yourself down there to see the GP.
Actually making the effort to do something, tends to make a person more invested in the outputs of whatever it is they're doing. The more "least resistance" is incorporated into an endeavour, the less personal investment there is. As I see it, KIR has taken the easiest route to complying with the request to access a counsellor and while it costs more, is less effort than accessing the NHS.
Well, I half agree. The other half of me, engendered through experience of working in a free service for seven years, says that people are also likely to make more of an effort if they have to pay. Payment seems to confer an inherent value. If a service is free, it doesn't cost you anything to not bother to get out of bed for your appointment, and 'free' gets translated by some as 'not worth charging for', or 'not important'.