Malikah Z Shaheed

Malikah Z Shaheed is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience helping people through hard moments. She focuses on grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, family concerns, and intimacy-related issues. Malikah aims to make the first steps feel manageable and direct, listening closely and offering steady support.

Her work centers on practical, person-centered collaboration. She helps people name what feels most urgent, build coping skills, and repair communication where relationships are strained. Sessions often include looking at patterns that keep problems active and trying small, doable changes between meetings.

Malikah has a long history of helping people face loss and end-of-life concerns, as well as the stress that comes with illness, caregiving, and aging. She also supports those dealing with abandonment, attachment questions, blended family stress, and the fallout from divorce and separation. Her background includes supporting people affected by cancer, chronic pain, and other medical issues.

Her approach includes attention to intimacy, self-worth, and forgiveness when those topics are part of the work. Malikah also works with people from military and first-responder backgrounds and those navigating identity and discrimination-related stress. She describes her style as warm, direct, and respectful of each person's pace.

To begin, she asks people to reflect on what they most hope to change. From there she helps set clear goals and practical steps. Malikah practices in New York and provides services in English as a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW).

Approaches that Guide Online Support

Many clients meet Malikah wanting straightforward tools to manage strong emotions and painful memories. Evidence-based therapeutic techniques often used include trauma-focused work that helps people make sense of traumatic memories and reduce their grip on day-to-day life. This kind of work focuses on safe pacing, grounding skills, and building tolerance for difficult feelings.

She also draws on grief-focused methods that help people process loss, find ways to remember what matters, and create new routines after a major change. Those approaches emphasize meaning-making and practical steps for caregiving stress or end-of-life concerns.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Malikah will talk through your goals and try brief experiments to see what feels most helpful. She adjusts methods based on how you respond and what fits your day-to-day needs.

If you are considering online sessions, confirm which session formats are currently offered before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow quicker check-ins when problems flare. It can also let people connect from other parts of New York without changing therapists, but be sure to verify the available formats when you schedule.