About Kimberly
Kimberly Ragas-Matalamaki is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Louisiana who focuses on helping adults manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, ADHD, addictions, and life changes. She works with people in early adulthood through geriatric years and aims to create a nonjudgmental, respectful space for personal work. Kimberly emphasizes clear communication and practical support in sessions.
She draws on client-centered methods that prioritize each person's goals and lived experience. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to identify and shift unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
Background and approach
Solution-focused techniques help set small, achievable goals and track progress between sessions. Kimberly brings eight years of counseling experience and has worked with clients from diverse backgrounds and cultures. She combines punctual, professional practice with a steady approach to help people find daily wellness and emotional stability.
Her work includes issues related to relationships, family-of-origin concerns, parenting stress, intimacy, and career strain. Sessions are intended to be collaborative. Kimberly aims to build treatment plans that measure growth and invite feedback along the way.
She describes the therapy room as an empowering place where clients can express themselves and learn communication tools that fit their needs. Practical problems like caregiver stress, body image concerns, adoption and foster care challenges, and coping after disaster are also part of her focus. Kimberly supports people as they take steps toward clearer boundaries, better coping, and improved day-to-day functioning.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on what matters most to the person in front of the therapist. It prioritizes listening, empathy, and the client’s own goals, which helps when deciding what to work on first. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical strategies for shifting patterns that cause distress; it can be useful for anxiety, depression, and anger. Solution-focused therapy is brief and goal-directed, concentrating on small, concrete steps and measurable progress to build momentum and confidence.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk through needs, preferences, and goals during early sessions and adjust methods as progress is made. That way the plan fits the person rather than the person fitting a single method.
Online formats offer flexibility for different needs. Video calls provide face-to-face interaction for skills practice and deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be more convenient when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick check-ins, brief coaching, and ongoing accountability between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit counseling into work, caregiving, or other routines.
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What this counselor 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