Contact Telehealth by SimplePractice

I am a clinician and have been using this app since March 2020. In the beginning, my client video sessions were seamless and I was very happy. Within the last two months, the connection has been unreliable which has negatively impacted my therapy sessions. At times, my audio cuts out and clients cannot hear me. At other times there is such a significant lag that we are both waiting to hear what the other person says and video and voice is not matching up. I have talked with multiple customer service people there, yet issues are not remedied. They are quick to say that it is my Wi-Fi or the Wi-Fi of my clients, yet I am trying other HIPAA protected teletherapy platforms and we are all having zero issues. They brought on too many customers at once and cannot handle it. Go get your teletherapy on a more reliable app!

I could not hear my therapist, but I could see her. We ended up having to do a phone call in addition to using the video so there could be audio. I thought it might’ve just been something on my laptop so I checked my microphone access settings/permissions… nothing wrong. Then I went onto my phone to try and click the link, same experience, she could hear and see me, I could see her, no sound. I went to my phone and computer application settings, my husband is a tech guy, and even he says there’s no logical explanation as to why it doesn’t work on both my computer and my phone. My therapist had just had a successful session with another client and her microphone worked fine. Maybe it’s an Apple compatibility issue?

Sometimes it will be fine, the occasional glitch or freeze, but sometimes (like today) it will kick me AND MY THERAPIST out of the meeting repeatedly, if I try to log back in it tells me server error, I need to install a (nonexisting) update (then takes me to the App Store where there is no update), I have run out of cloud data (which I have not, everything else runs perfectly fine) and many various errors, AND THEN asks me to rate it on the App Store! Well guess what: I did. This app is a piece of junk, you need to maintain your products better. Maybe actually listen to the problems? I don’t know, just a suggestion? *sigh* anyway, I hope for better next time and hopefully I can actually go through the whole meeting.

I used the app 1 time and it worked fine. My next appointment, the Dr office sent multiple text messages to 2 different phone numbers trying to send me a link. I never received any of the text messages that were sent to either phone number. I don’t know if this issue is on my end or the Dr office but I need to get it figured out.