About Kimberly
Kimberly Ragas-Matalamaki welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure how to move forward. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Louisiana who focuses on helping individuals build coping skills and handle day-to-day challenges. Her approach aims to make sessions feel straightforward and usable right away.
Kimberly works with adults from early adulthood through geriatric years. She commonly helps with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, ADHD, addictions, and relationship or family concerns.
How Kimberly works
She also supports people facing parenting struggles, career questions, changes in life circumstances, and compassion fatigue. Her style centers on listening without judgment and helping people find solutions that fit their life. She uses client-centered work to understand a person’s priorities, cognitive behavioral techniques to identify and shift unhelpful thinking, and solution-focused steps to set achievable goals.
Sessions emphasize practical tools and clear next steps. Kimberly brings eight years of professional experience and aims to keep sessions punctual and respectful of each person’s time. She offers a calm, empowering atmosphere where clients can speak openly and practice new ways of coping.
Treatment plans are created together, with regular check-ins to track progress and adjust goals. People who choose Kimberly can expect straightforward guidance, practical strategies, and regular feedback to help them notice small improvements. She supports growth through concrete skills, clearer communication, and steady steps toward wellbeing.
Kimberly lists 3 ways of working on the entry:
What Kimberly works with
The areas below are the ones Kimberly selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
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
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Louisiana |
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Online support options
How Kimberly's Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy puts the person's priorities first and focuses on understanding concerns from their point of view; it helps when someone needs space to be heard and to define what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thought and behavior and teaches concrete skills to reduce anxiety, manage depression, and handle stressful situations. Solution-Focused Therapy concentrates on setting small, practical goals and building steps that lead to change rather than dwelling on problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kimberly will collaborate with each person to decide what feels useful and realistic. Together they will try methods, review what is helping, and adjust plans to match goals and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins or shorter sessions, and text-based messaging supports ongoing, shorter-touch communication between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep momentum between sessions.
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