About Kimberly
Kimberly Ragas-Matalamaki is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Louisiana. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, grief, or depression. She also supports individuals facing life changes, family conflicts, and struggles with attention or addictive behaviors.
She works with adults from early adulthood through older adulthood. Sessions are offered in a calm, nonjudgmental tone where clients can speak openly. Kimberly aims to help people express themselves and build practical skills they can use day to day.
Background and approach
Her approach blends client-centered conversations with structured techniques drawn from cognitive behavioral therapy and solution-focused work. That means sessions balance listening and understanding with concrete steps to try between meetings. Progress is tracked through clear goals and regular feedback.
Kimberly brings eight years of counseling experience and a variety of resources to each client interaction. She emphasizes punctual, professional care and practical tools for coping with stress and change. Her background includes supporting people through grief, relationship issues, parenting challenges, and caregiver strain.
New work begins with a shared plan that looks at current struggles and desired outcomes. The plan is revisited as goals shift and small successes accumulate. Kimberly encourages clients to take steady steps toward improved daily functioning and emotional wellbeing.
Approaches that fit online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's own experience and priorities. The therapist listens closely, reflects what is shared, and helps the client name goals they want to reach. This approach can help with anxiety, grief, and building self-understanding.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, combines talk and practical exercises. It looks at unhelpful thinking and teaches skills to change behaviors and reduce symptoms. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress management in short-term work.
Solution-focused therapy emphasizes small, achievable steps. Sessions identify what is already working and build on those strengths to create quick, practical changes. This can be useful when a person wants concrete progress and clear next steps.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Kimberly will collaborate with each person to match methods to their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they set aims, try a method, and adjust based on what helps most.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions can save bandwidth; live chat and text-based messaging support shorter check-ins or ongoing support between meetings. Those options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while focusing on coping skills and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
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- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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