About Malikah
Malikah Duncan is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Washington with 20 years of clinical experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and relationship challenges.
Background and approach
She also supports concerns like grief, parenting strain, addiction, intimacy issues, eating and sleeping problems, and life transitions. Her style is warm and adaptable.
Sessions focus on practical steps and clear conversation. She aims to build a collaborative plan that fits each person's life and goals.
Malikah brings long experience across many settings, including telehealth, independent practice, community mental health clinics, hospitals, military bases, detention centers, and schools. That work exposed her to a wide range of backgrounds and life situations.
She has worked extensively with people of color and young adults and has supported blended family and family-of-origin concerns. Her approach draws on several well-known therapies such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, and client-centered methods.
She adapts techniques to match what the person needs and prefers rather than following a single script. Malikah emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in sessions.
She avoids stigmatizing labels and focuses on concrete steps people can use between meetings. She encourages people to name small goals and try manageable changes that add up over time.
Therapeutic approaches for online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and focuses on values-based action to move forward. It can be helpful for anxiety, stress, and adjusting to life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and tests practical changes that often reduce symptoms of depression, anxiety, and insomnia. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on patterns in close relationships and helps people understand and change interaction cycles that cause pain.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Malikah collaborates with each person to identify which methods make sense for their situation and goals. She mixes tools from different approaches and adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online formats such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone calls are helpful when bandwidth or camera use is limited, live chat can be a quicker check-in, and messaging lets people send notes between sessions. These options offer flexibility for scheduling and for different kinds of support.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English