Kimberly Ragas-Matalamaki is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people handle worry, grief, life changes, and relationship struggles.
01About Kimberly
Kimberly Ragas-Matalamaki is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people handle worry, grief, life changes, and relationship struggles. She offers calm, practical support for adults from early adulthood through later life. Her style aims to make difficult conversations feel manageable and clear.
She listens without judgment and works to create a comfortable space where people can speak openly. Sessions focus on real problems and usable steps, not just talk. She uses straightforward tools to help clients reduce anxiety, cope with loss, and navigate transitions.
Background and approach
Kimberly draws on several counseling approaches, including client-centered work that follows the client’s lead. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and solution-focused strategies to set short-term goals. These methods are mixed to fit each person’s needs and pace.
Her practice includes help for stress, depression, ADHD, addictions, intimacy-related issues, parenting concerns, anger, self-esteem, career decisions, and compassion fatigue. Additional focus areas include blended family issues, adoption and foster care concerns, caregiver stress, and healing after trauma or domestic violence. With eight years of experience in Louisiana, she brings practical resources and a steady presence to sessions.
She works with clients to build a treatment plan, track progress, and adjust approaches based on what helps most. The aim is gradual, sustainable improvement in daily functioning and wellbeing.
02Credentials
- LPC (Louisiana)
- License 7186 · expires June 2026
- NPI
- 1972962934 · national provider identifier
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03Focus areas and approaches
Everything Kimberly lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Depression
- ADHD
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Methods Kimberly names
These are the methods Kimberly names on their own professional profile. Naming an approach is not evidence of training or certification in it, and this directory checks no training records. Ask directly if it matters to you.
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04Online support
How Kimberly’s Approaches Fit Online Therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s experience and follows their lead in sessions. It helps people who need a listening space to sort feelings and make choices about next steps.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and offers concrete techniques to change them. This approach is useful for anxiety, depression, and managing ADHD symptoms.
Solution-focused therapy zeroes in on small, practical goals and short-term change. It helps when someone wants clear steps to move forward from a specific issue.
Choosing an approach is a shared process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has worked before, then try methods that fit the person. Sessions are adjusted based on progress and feedback so the plan evolves together.
Online work uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging to make therapy easier to fit into life. Video lets people use visual cues for deeper conversation, phone calls can be a lower-bandwidth option, chats are useful for quick check-ins, and messaging supports brief, ongoing contact between sessions. These formats offer flexibility for work schedules, caregiving demands, travel, or limited time.
05Questions people ask
What concerns does Kimberly commonly address?
She helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, ADHD, addictions, relationship and family issues, and many life changes.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is direct and supportive. She listens without judgment and focuses on practical steps clients can try between sessions.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has eight years of counseling experience working with adults from early adulthood to geriatric clients.
What credential does she hold and where is she based?
She holds the LPC credential as a Licensed Professional Counselor in Louisiana and practices there.
Which languages are supported in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be done via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How are sessions paid for and what do they cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are billed through a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
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