Credentials: Registered Dietitian, Licensed Dietitian; Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor; Licensed Body Positive Facilitator.
About
Malak Saddy RD, LD/LDN is a Registered and Licensed Dietitian Nutritionist and Size Inclusive Advocate. She uses her own lived experiences of growing up in a first-generation American Lebanese Muslim household and attributes her career to her cultural background. Currently, Malak works with clients 1:1, providing individualized nutrition counseling sessions. She also provides business and case consultation to clinicians and is a keynote speaker working with professional organizations and corporations to educate participants on working towards healing their relationship with food and body image.
Services offered
Services
Available for
Speaking topics, trainings & workshops
Harm Reduction in Eating Disorder Treatment; Intuitive Eating; Nutrition Basics and Counseling in the Treatment of Eating Disorders; Becoming a Health At Every Size Provider.
Focus areas & populations
Focus areas
Communities served
Identity & values
Values & commitments
Identities & communities
Lived experience
Practice & approach
What harm reduction means in practice
To me, harm reduction means meeting people exactly where they are with compassion, curiosity, and respect for their autonomy. It means recognizing that change is rarely linear and that every step toward increased safety, nourishment, and self-trust matters. Rather than focusing on perfection or compliance, I strive to help clients identify realistic, sustainable changes that improve their quality of life while honoring their values, lived experiences, and readiness for change. As a dietitian working with eating disorders, harm reduction also means moving away from defining people by diagnoses or pathologizing them simply to fit a treatment model. A diagnosis may help guide care, but it should never become someone's identity. I believe healing happens when clients feel seen as whole people—not as their eating disorder, weight, or symptoms. My role is to collaborate with clients, reduce shame, foster body trust, and create a space where they can reconnect with themselves beyond their diagnosis.
Communities, movements & lineages that shaped this work
My understanding of harm reduction has been shaped by both my personal lived experience and my professional work. As a first-generation Lebanese Muslim American and as someone who cared for a loved one struggling with an eating disorder, I have witnessed firsthand how shame, stigma, and rigid expectations can create barriers to healing. These experiences taught me the importance of approaching care with humility, cultural responsiveness, and compassion rather than judgment. Professionally, my perspective has been influenced by weight-inclusive, trauma-informed, and person-centered approaches to nutrition care. I value the principles of collaboration, informed choice, and respecting each person's autonomy. I have learned from mentors, colleagues, and clients themselves that meaningful change is built through trust, curiosity, and honoring the expertise people have about their own lives. My practice continues to be shaped by these relationships and by a commitment to helping clients reclaim identities that extend far beyond their diagnoses.
Trainings, certifications & community lineages
Lebanese Muslim community lineage.
Publications, media & written work
https://podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/63-re-release-forced-eating-disorders-why-all-eating/id1544021404?i=1000670432550 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/who-are-you-really-fasting-for/id1566954573?i=1000542093879