About Kimberly
Kimberly Ragas-Matalamaki is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Louisiana. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, grief, and life transitions. Her tone is calm and direct, and she aims to make sessions feel respectful and nonjudgmental for each person.
Kimberly meets with adults from early adulthood through older adulthood. She listens for what matters most and helps people set small, practical goals they can use between sessions.
Background and approach
Her work often centers on day-to-day coping, improving communication, and repairing life routines that have become strained. Her approach draws on client-centered methods to follow the person's lead, cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, and solution-focused strategies to build concrete steps forward. Sessions typically include talking through current problems, practicing new skills, and reviewing progress together.
With eight years of experience, Kimberly has worked with people from varied backgrounds and life situations. She pays attention to family of origin concerns, parenting strain, relationship problems, and issues tied to loss or trauma. She also offers support for career stress, self-esteem struggles, and coping after major life events.
Her style is practical and encouraging. Clients can expect clear goals, regular feedback, and tools to use outside of sessions. Kimberly invites people ready to change small patterns to begin by describing what they want to improve and setting simple first steps.
How therapy approaches translate online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and following the person's priorities. Online sessions give space for people to describe their concerns, set goals, and guide the topics each week. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions so people can try new ways of thinking and behaving. In online work this often means identifying unhelpful thoughts, practicing short exercises, and tracking progress between sessions. Solution-Focused Therapy centers on small, practical steps and quick wins to move toward specific goals; online sessions can be used to set these steps and check results quickly.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about their goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust the plan based on what helps. That shared decision-making aims to find a way of working that feels right and produces useful changes for everyday life.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited, live chat for shorter check-ins, or text-based messaging for ongoing support. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, try brief practice exercises between meetings, and maintain steady contact while working toward concrete goals.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- 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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