About Malikah
Malikah Duncan is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) based in Washington with 20 years of clinical experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, depression, and trauma. Malikah also supports those dealing with addiction, sleep or eating concerns, parenting challenges, and life transitions.
Her approach is warm and flexible. Sessions focus on practical skills and honest conversation. Malikah draws on evidence-based methods to help clients notice patterns and try new ways of coping.
Background and approach
Malikah has worked in many settings including telehealth, hospitals, community mental health clinics, schools, detention centers, and military bases. That range shaped her ability to work with people from varied backgrounds and life situations. She has particular experience with multicultural concerns, family of origin issues, blended family dynamics, and young adult issues.
In the room she emphasizes respect and sensitivity. Malikah avoids stigmatizing labels and tailors treatment to each person’s needs. She blends techniques from cognitive behavioral approaches, emotion-focused work, acceptance-based practices, and skills-based strategies to address symptoms and relationship patterns.
People often come to Malikah when anxiety, trauma, or relationship problems make daily life harder. She supports clients through grief, bipolar mood challenges, parenting strain, and the complexities that come with change. Her style aims to empower clients to try small, manageable shifts that add up over time.
How Malikah brings therapy online with evidence-based methods
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts without getting stuck in them and focus on actions that matter. It is useful when anxiety or stress make it hard to do things that matter. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches concrete skills to change patterns that keep problems going. That approach can help with anxiety, depression, sleep, and eating concerns. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) focuses on emotions and relationship patterns to improve connection and handle intimacy-related issues.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Malikah collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. She blends techniques as needed and checks in to see what is helping and what should change.
Online therapy offers flexibility that fits busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when bandwidth and a quiet space are available, while phone sessions work well when video is not an option. Live chat and text-based messaging can be used for brief check-ins, between-session support, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it possible to schedule sessions around work, school, and caregiving responsibilities while still using ACT, CBT, or EFT-informed techniques.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- 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
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