Kimberly Ragas-Matalamaki
Healing and practical support for adults
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed in
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kimberly
Kimberly Ragas-Matalamaki is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, parenting challenges, and other life changes. She works with adults from early adulthood through geriatric years. Her approach is practical and direct, aimed at helping people feel steadier day to day.
In sessions she creates an atmosphere without judgment where people can speak openly. She listens closely and helps clients set clear goals for what they want to change.
Background and approach
She uses practical tools to build coping skills and improve communication. Kimberly draws on client-centered methods that keep the person’s priorities central. She also uses cognitive behavioral strategies to identify unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors.
Solution-focused techniques help clients try small steps that can produce quick relief. She has eight years of professional counseling experience and holds the LPC credential, Licensed Professional Counselor. Her license is in Louisiana and guides her practice with adults across a range of concerns, including family-related stress and parenting strain.
People who work with Kimberly can expect a collaborative working plan. She tracks progress, gives feedback, and adjusts strategies as problems evolve. The goal is steady improvement in coping, communication, and daily functioning.
Approaches and online therapy that fit your life
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s own goals and values. The therapist listens closely and follows what the client says is most important, which can help with motivation and emotional support.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks down problems into thoughts and actions that can be changed. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and patterns that keep people stuck by teaching practical skills to shift thinking and behavior.
Solution-focused therapy looks for small, achievable steps toward a better day. It emphasizes what works now and builds on strengths to create quick wins and confidence.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and needs and then try methods that match those priorities. This collaborative process helps refine what feels most helpful over time.
Online sessions can take place by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. These formats make it easier to access regular support from home or work and to use brief check-ins when needed. The flexibility of online therapy helps people keep momentum while balancing daily responsibilities.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Solution-Focused Therapy
Rather than examining the problem at length, this looks at what is already working and builds on it. Sessions tend to be practical and forward-looking, with small achievable steps, which translates readily to shorter online conversations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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
Next step
Talk to Kimberly
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