Physical therapy after an injury, rehab after a surgery, counseling that has started to help. When the sessions stop being covered before the work is done, you can ask the people who know you for help with the cost, and you never have to say what the therapy is for.
Free to create and free to send.
Coverage can end partway through a course of sessions. The work is not finished, and the next session still has a price.
Ask the practice whether the schedule or the fee for the sessions ahead can be adjusted. The block of sessions still to come is what the request is for.
Priya has been in weekly therapy since the spring. In September, her sessions stopped being covered. In her words, stopping would undo the progress she has made, and starting again could mean a wait.
Her request covers twelve weekly sessions, with the practice's invoice attached. It does not say what the therapy is for, and it does not have to. She sent it to her mother, her closest friend and a cousin.
The same request works for physical therapy after an injury, rehab after a hospital stay, or counseling. The procedure that came before it belongs with surgery, medication with prescriptions, and a parent's residential care with nursing home care.
Only people with the link can open it, and you decide who it goes to, by text or email. For counseling especially, it matters that the request is not posted anywhere public.
| What you keep | The entire amount of every contribution. |
| When it arrives | Once your bank is connected, each contribution reaches it in 2-3 business days. |
| How you send it | By text or email, to the people you choose, with photos and a video if you want them to see the situation rather than just read about it. You decide who to send it to. It's never listed on A Better Gift, and it stays out of search results unless you choose to share it publicly. |
Per session, times the sessions
Attach the practice's invoice or fee schedule. It shows the cost of one session and how many are planned, which makes the total easy to follow.
Without naming the reason
Write what the sessions have done for you and what stopping would mean, without saying what they treat. A video is there if you would rather speak than write.
Guests can give
Contributors pay by card without creating an account, and each receives an emailed receipt.
Paid out to you
Stripe checks who you are, and payouts go to an account in your name. Once your bank is connected, each contribution reaches it in 2-3 business days; there is no total to reach before it does, and giving stays open past the goal.
A check-in on video
Record a short update when the block of sessions ends. It is emailed to everyone who contributed and to the people your request first reached by email.
A block of sessions
Requests start at $500: a run of sessions rather than a single appointment, shared by the people who want you to keep going.
"My daughter has been in weekly therapy since the spring, and her sessions stopped being covered in September." You can set the request up on her behalf, with her name showing on it. The parent who creates it is the one paid, and you settle the invoice with the practice.
Nothing to create a request. Nothing to send it. And nothing comes out of what people give you: you receive the entire amount.
