Meet Eating Disorder Specialist & Nutritional Practitioner Milda Zolubaite, MSc: A Compassionate Voice in ED Recovery
Looking for an eating disorder nutritionist who truly gets it? Meet Milda Zolubaite, MSc—an Eating Disorder Specialist and Registered Nutritional Practitioner with a powerful combination of clinical expertise and lived experience. Milda offers trauma-informed, weight-inclusive nutrition support for people recovering from eating disorders like bulimia and binge eating disorder.
In this post, we’ll introduce you to Milda’s philosophy, her anti-diet approach, and how she helps clients rebuild a peaceful relationship with food. Whether you’re exploring recovery yourself or you’re a provider seeking aligned voices in the field, Milda’s work brings clarity, compassion, and nuance to eating disorder treatment.
Keep reading to learn more about Milda’s journey—and why her approach is changing the conversation around food and healing.
Why did you choose to become an eating disorder specialist?
After my own experience of over a decade with eating disorders and body dissatisfaction, I eventually recovered, using a mix of tools including psychotherapy, nutritional balancing and spiritual practices. What I have learned on my recovery journey felt so important and I felt like I had no choice but to share my knowledge and insights with people, who are stuck in the same disordered eating cycles. Therefore, I made it my life's mission to help others find peace around food and with their bodies.
What kind of treatment and help do you provide?
Although my background is in nutritional therapy, I use a mix of nutritional, psychological and behavioural interventions tailored to individual needs. I mainly work with people 1:1 and offer some courses and workshops.
Do you work with only eating disorders or body image?
I specialize in supporting people struggling with binge eating and bulimia. Therefore, I only see these groups of clients and support them through food and body issues, toward peace, balance and freedom.
Where are you located? In which countries/states/regions do you practice?
Although I have recently relocated to Lithuania, I continue to practice online worldwide, with majority of my clients in the UK and the US.
How long have you been working with eating disorders and body image overall?
Just over eight years.
What are your favorite types of clients to work with?
I love all my clients, as I enjoy seeing the growth in breakthroughs that every single person can experience, no matter how small. Even when I find specific cases more challenging, I learn so much, that I am grateful for those experiences that help me grow alongside
What happens during a first meeting with you?
I offer the initial Food Peace Roadmap session that last two hours, during which we go through the client's history and relationship with food, their environment and relationship dynamics, assess the current situation around food. I want to make sure I get as much information from the person, before being able to offer my insights, possible roadblocks and where they are getting stuck (and why). It's a session that helps people see their journey in a new light and helps them identify the next actionable steps towards making lasting change
What are the first steps you take when treating binge eating and bulimia?
WIth bulimia and binge eating, I start addressing the issues on a parallel track: on one side we focus on bringing balance to the physical body, including blood glucose regulation and bringing balance to the body. Alongside, we address mindset, limiting beliefs, learn to recognise and manage triggers, problem solve and learn new coping strategies. It's a process that is very individual from person to person, hence I choose the tools and priority individually.
What are the first steps you take when addressing body image issues?
First, we explore the history and body story. Second, we begin to recognize specific triggers, negative body image thoughts and find ways to reframe and have a more compassionate body talk.
What do you wish people knew about getting treatment and help for eating disorders?
Sounds so cliche, but it really doesn't matter how long somebody has been struggling for, as healing is very possible and there is hope. I believe that one of the key aspects to recovery is intention, even if motivation is not solid every single day. I've struggled in a daily battle for years until I decided to get help, all because I believed that "I wasn't sick enough" and there are people that are so much worse off. Now I wish I would have gotten help much earlier in the process.
How can people learn more about and contact you?
https://www.facebook.com/nutritionpath.uk/
https://www.instagram.com/nutrition.path/
Share one fun fact about you that most people don't know.
Before becoming a Nutritional Therapist, I was a Sommelier and worked in the oldest two-Michelin star restaurant in London.
