Kimberly Ragas-Matalamaki

Kimberly Ragas-Matalamaki is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people manage stress, anger, anxiety, and life changes. She works with adults from early adulthood through geriatric years and focuses on practical steps clients can use every day. Her approach is steady and nonjudgmental to help people feel heard and understood.

Kimberly uses a client-centered stance that puts the person's goals first. She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thought patterns and solution-focused methods to set short-term, achievable goals. Sessions emphasize clear communication, skill building, and small changes that add up.

With eight years of experience, she has worked with clients from varied cultural backgrounds across Louisiana. Common concerns she addresses include depression, grief, parenting strain, addictions, ADHD, intimacy issues, caregiver stress, and family-origin problems. She aims to make sessions punctual and practical so progress can be tracked.

In the first sessions she collaborates with each person to build a tailored plan. That plan includes ways to monitor growth and routine feedback to guide adjustments. Clients can expect direct, respectful conversation and tools they can use between sessions.

Kimberly frames therapy as a partnership. She offers resources and teaches communication and coping skills while supporting personal goals toward healthier daily functioning.

How these approaches shape online care

Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s goals and experience, helping the therapist follow what matters most to the client while offering support and reflection. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at thoughts and behaviors that get in the way, teaching practical skills for coping with anxiety, anger, and low mood. Solution-focused therapy emphasizes setting small, concrete goals and building steps toward them so clients see progress quickly.

Finding the right way to work together is part of the process. Kimberly will collaborate with each person to choose which methods fit their needs and preferences. That choice is revisited as goals change, so the plan stays useful and relevant.

Confirm session formats before booking, as specific options are not listed here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy life, allow quicker check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. It can also let people use different tools and exercises during sessions and practice strategies in real time, which helps translate what is learned into everyday routines.